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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

Alwyn Mellor (Brunnhilde), Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund)

Seattle Opera, Seattle Opera Chorus and Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Asher Fisch

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Grimsley's Wotan...has something of the centred warmth and sound of Norman Bailey's...The Walsung twins give good value...[Mellor] has an attention to detail and dynamics reminiscent of Anne...

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

Alwyn Mellor (Brunnhilde), Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund)

Seattle Opera, Seattle Opera Chorus and Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Asher Fisch

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Grimsley's Wotan...has something of the centred warmth and sound of Norman Bailey's...The Walsung twins give good value...[Mellor] has an attention to detail and dynamics reminiscent of Anne...

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014

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Commemorating the three-decade tenure of Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins, the Seattle Ring is luxuriously packaged in a sturdy box, containing 14 CDs in colour cardboard wallets and five perfect-bound books - one for each of the Ring’s four librettos in original German with English translations, plus a commemorative four-colour booklet containing essays by Speight Jenkins and numerous photos documenting the acclaimed 2013 Seattle Ring.

Nearly 40 years ago, a small, regional company in the Pacific Northwest of the United States decided to scale arguably the greatest height of the operatic repertoire, Wagner’s Ring. That amazing feat launched a legendary tradition that has become universally known as the Seattle Ring, a destination for the cycle’s legions of devotees from around the world.

Now the fabled history of the Seattle Ring has been captured for commercial release for the very first time. Recorded live during the 2013 season, the production recreates the immediacy of the theatre-going experience and the realism of the superb Seattle cast, which includes Alwyn Mellor as Brunhilde, Stefan Vinke as Siegfried, Greer Grimsley as Wotan, Stephanie Blythe as Fricka, Margaret Jane Wray as Sieglinde, and Stuart Skelton as Siegmund. From the pit, Israeli-born Asher Fisch conducts the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

  • Release date: 22nd Sep 2014
  • Label: Avie
  • Catalogue number: AV2313
  • Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Wagner: Das Rheingold
Work length2:28:51
Das Rheingold: Prelude
Track length4:51
"Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle"
Track length2:35
"Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!"
Track length5:01
"Wallala! Lalaleia!"
Track length2:35
"Lugt, Schwestern!"
Track length5:58
"Der Welt Erbe gewänn’ ich zu eigen"
Track length4:10
"Wotan, Gemahl, erwache!"
Track length9:46
"Sanft schloß Schlaf dein Aug"
Track length7:29
"Zu mir, Freia!"
Track length1:33
"Endlich Loge!"
Track length4:10
"Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn!"
Track length7:39
"Ein Runenzauber zwingt das Gold zum Reif"
Track length3:32
"Hör’, Wotan, der Harrenden Wort!"
Track length2:57
"Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild?"
Track length5:29
"Auf, Loge, hinab mit mir!"
Track length4:59
"Schau, du Schelm!"
Track length2:12
"Nibelheim hier"
Track length5:53
"Nehmt euch in acht!"
Track length8:14
"Vergeh’, frevelnder Gauch!"
Track length4:37
"Ohe! Ohe! Schreckliche Schlange"
Track length6:46
"Da, Vetter, sitze du fest!"
Track length4:46
"Gezahlt hab’ ich"
Track length5:39
"Bin ich nun frei?"
Track length4:20
"Fasolt und Fafner nahen von fern"
Track length5:04
"Gepflanzt sind die Pfähle"
Track length5:57
"Weiche, Wotan!"
Track length5:15
"Hört, ihr Riesen!"
Track length6:09
"Schwüles Gedünst"
Track length3:29
"Abendlich strahlt"
Track length4:12
"Rheingold! Rheingold!"
Track length3:34
Wagner: Die Walküre
Work length3:42:54
This work is only available as an album download.
"Vorspiel"
Track length3:30
"Wess’ Herd dies auch sei"
Track length3:45
"Kühlende Labung"
Track length8:37
"Müd am Herd"
Track length4:49
"Friedmund darf ich nicht heißen"
Track length4:18
"Aus dem Wald trieb es mich fort"
Track length5:41
"Ich weiß ein wildes Geschlecht"
Track length5:20
"Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater"
Track length5:50
"Schläfst du, Gast?"
Track length6:51
"Winterstürme"
Track length2:55
"Du bist der Lenz"
Track length6:40
"Wehwalt heißt du fürwahr?"
Track length5:06
"Vorspiel"
Track length2:05
"Nun zäume dein Roß"
Track length2:48
"Der alte Sturm"
Track length4:25
"So ist es denn aus mit den ewigen Göttern"
Track length3:10
"Nichts lerntest du, wollt’ ich dich lehren"
Track length5:29
"Was verlangst du?"
Track length5:27
"Schlimm, fürcht’ ich, schloß der Streit"
Track length4:28
"Was keinem in Worten ich künde"
Track length5:53
"Ein andres ist’s"
Track length10:37
This track is only available as an album download.
"O sag, künde, was soll nun dein Kind?"
Track length7:17
"Raste nun hier; gönne dir Ruh’!"
Track length3:32
"Hinweg! Hinweg! Flieh’ die Entweihte!"
Track length7:12
"Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!"
Track length8:05
"Hehr bist du, und heilig"
Track length5:30
"So wenig achtest du ewige Wonne"
Track length5:01
"Zauberfest bezähmt ein Schlaf"
Track length3:23
"Kehrte der Vater nun heim"
Track length6:04
"Hojotoho! Heiaha!"
Track length8:20
"Schützt mich und helft in höchster Not"
Track length3:39
"Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich"
Track length5:30
"Steh, Brünnhild!"
Track length0:56
"Wo ist Brünnhild"
Track length3:56
"Hier bin ich, Vater"
Track length4:22
"Wehe! Weh! Schwester!"
Track length5:04
"War es so schmählich"
Track length4:53
"Nicht weise bin ich"
Track length4:42
"So tatest du"
Track length6:50
"Du zeugtest ein edles Geschlecht"
Track length5:39
"Leb’ wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind!"
Track length2:18
"Denn einer nur freie die Braut"
Track length8:06
"Loge, hör! Lausche hieher!"
Track length4:51
Wagner: Siegfried
Work length3:55:00
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Vorspiel
Track length3:58
"Zwangvolle Plage!"
Track length4:00
"Hoiho! Hoiho!"
Track length1:50
"Du hast du die Stücken"
Track length2:23
"Als zullendes Kind"
Track length1:29
"Vieles lehrtest du, Mime"
Track length8:41
"Einst lag wimmernd ein Weib"
Track length4:54
"Und diese Stücken sollst du mir schmieden"
Track length1:35
"Da stürmt er hin!"
Track length1:42
"Heil dir, weiser Schmied!"
Track length3:19
"Hier sizt’ ich am Herd"
Track length9:35
"Was zu wissen dir frommt"
Track length6:43
"Die Stücken! Das Schwert!"
Track length2:53
"Verfluchtes Licht!"
Track length1:06
"Heda! Du Fauler!"
Track length3:33
"Heraus! Was ist’s mit dem Fürchten!"
Track length5:04
"Her mit den Stücken"
Track length3:15
"Notung! Notung! Neidliches Schwert!"
Track length8:29
"Hoho! Hoho! Hahei!"
Track length6:23
Vorspiel
Track length5:07
"In Wald und Nacht"
Track length2:08
"Zur Neidhöhle fuhr ich bei Nacht"
Track length5:54
"Mit mir nicht, hadre mit Mime"
Track length2:45
"Fafner! Fafner! Erwache, Wurm!"
Track length2:47
"Nun Alberich, das schlug fehl!"
Track length3:35
"Wir sind zur Stelle!"
Track length6:11
"Daß der mein Vater nicht ist"
Track length1:47
"Aber – wie sah meine Mutter wohl aus?"
Track length2:29
"Meine Mutter, ein Menschenweib!"
Track length6:05
"Horn Call"
Track length5:33
"Wer bist du, kühner Knabe"
Track length4:25
"Zur Kunde taugt kein Toter"
Track length1:53
"Wohin schleichst du eilig und schlau"
Track length2:16
"Was ihr mir nützt, weiß ich nicht"
Track length2:13
"Willkommen, Siegfried!"
Track length8:16
"Da lieg auch du, dunkler Wurm!"
Track length9:21
Vorspiel
Track length2:11
"Wache, Wala! Wala! Erwach!"
Track length2:02
"Stark ruft das Lied"
Track length10:28
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"Dir Unweisen ruf’ ich’s ins Ohr"
Track length4:50
"Mein Vöglein schwebte mir fort!"
Track length0:25
"Wohin, Knabe, heißt dich dein Weg?"
Track length5:22
"Kenntest du mich, kühner Sproß"
Track length5:00
"Mit zerfocht’ner Waffe wich mir der Feige?"
Track length3:46
"Selige Öde auf sonniger Höh’!"
Track length6:32
"Das ist kein Mann!"
Track length7:21
"Heil dir, Sonne!"
Track length5:14
"O Siegfried! Siegfried! Seliger Held!"
Track length6:24
"Dort seh’ ich Grane"
Track length8:51
"Ewig war ich"
Track length12:57
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Work length4:18:50
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort"
Track length7:38
"Treu berath’ner Verträge Runen"
Track length2:03
"Es ragt die Burg"
Track length8:11
"Zu neuen Taten"
Track length6:49
"Willst du mir Minne schenken"
Track length6:14
"O heilige Götter!"
Track length2:48
"Siegfried’s Rhine Journey"
Track length5:32
"Nun hör, Hagen"
Track length2:25
"Wen rätst du nun zu frein"
Track length7:25
"Jagt er auf Taten wonnig umher"
Track length3:43
"Wer ist Gibichs Sohn?"
Track length1:59
"Begrüße froh, o Held"
Track length3:53
"Willkommen, Gast, in Gibichs Haus!"
Track length3:09
"Gutrune.’ ‘Sind’s gute Runen"
Track length4:24
"Blühenden Lebens labendes Blut"
Track length3:53
"Frisch auf die Fahrt!"
Track length2:38
"Hier sitz’ ich zur Wacht"
Track length9:47
"Altgewohntes Geräusch"
Track length7:54
"Höre mit Sinn, was ich dir sage!"
Track length9:11
"Welch’ banger Träume Mären"
Track length7:16
"Was leckt so wütend"
Track length1:39
"Brünnhild’! Ein Freier kam"
Track length8:54
Vorspiel
Track length2:42
"Schläfst du, Hagen, mein Sohn?"
Track length8:32
"Hoiho, Hagen! Müder Mann!"
Track length2:20
"Heiß’ mich willkommen, Gibichskind!"
Track length3:46
"Hoiho! Hoihohoho!"
Track length8:33
"Heil dir, Gunther!"
Track length3:14
"Gegrüßt sei, teurer Held"
Track length4:11
"Einen Ring sah ich an deiner Hand"
Track length3:11
"Heil’ge Götter, himmlische Lenker!"
Track length6:02
"Helle Wehr! Heilige Waffe!"
Track length3:02
"Gunther! Wehr’ deinem Weibe"
Track length3:35
"Welches Unholds List"
Track length4:08
"Vertraue mir, betrog’ne Frau!"
Track length3:15
"Und dort trifft ihn mein Speer!"
Track length8:31
Vorspiel
Track length1:51
"Frau Sonne sendet lichte Strahlen"
Track length4:25
"Ein Albe führte mich irr"
Track length3:44
"Was leid’ ich doch das karge Lob?"
Track length1:29
"Siegfried! Siegfried!"
Track length8:16
"Hoiho?’ ‘Hoiho!"
Track length4:00
"Trink, Gunther, trink!"
Track length2:39
"Mime hieß ein mürrischer Zwerg"
Track length4:31
"In Leid zu dem Wipfel lauscht’ ich hinauf"
Track length5:28
"Brünnhilde! Heilige Braut!"
Track length4:31
"Siegfried’s Funeral Music"
Track length5:49
"War das sein Horn?"
Track length2:48
"Hoiho! Hoiho!"
Track length2:38
"Nicht klage wider mich!"
Track length2:11
"Schweigt eures Jammers jauchzenden Schwall!"
Track length3:28
"Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort"
Track length8:26
"Mein Erbe nun nehm’ ich zu eigen"
Track length2:25
"Fliegt heim, ihr Raben!"
Track length7:44

Awards and reviews

Awards Issue 2014

Grimsley's Wotan...has something of the centred warmth and sound of Norman Bailey's...The Walsung twins give good value...[Mellor] has an attention to detail and dynamics reminiscent of Anne Evans. She never forces, never shows off but steers through the part with a beacon-like concentration...the musical achievement here is more than good enough to demand attention outside Seattle.

Opera Now

Fisch conducts the Seattle Symphony Orchestra with mixed results. One positive is that this Ring gains strength as it progresses, the negative being that it doesn’t start with much conviction...Greer Grimsley’s Wotan dominates, with noble, stentorian tone and a true sense of power.
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