Opera - The Rhinegold

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)


The Rhinegold 174:00
Preliminary Evening to the Festival Play The Ring of the Nibelung
Music drama in four scenes
Poem by Richard Wagner
English translation by Andrew Porter

COMPACT DISC ONE
Scene 1
1 Orchestral prelude 5:01
2 'Weia! Waga! Wandering waters' 1:33
Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
3 'He, he! You nixies!' 1:40
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
4 'Slimy, slippery, slithery smoothness!' 9:57
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
5 'Look, sisters! The sunlight is greeting the gold' 2:41
Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
6 'What's that, you nixies . . .?' 5:01
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
7 'The world's wealth can be mine . . .?' 1:01
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
8 'Still not afraid?' 4:39
Alberich, Flosshilde, Wellgunde, Woglinde
Orchestral interlude

Scene 2
9 'Wotan, my lord! Awaken!' 6:12
Fricka, Wotan
10 'For I wished you faithful and true' 2:59
Fricka, Wotan
11 'Then shelter her now' 2:24
Fricka, Freia, Wotan
12 'Soft sleep closed your eyes' 3:20
Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner
13 'God of light, light of spirit!' 5:09
Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner, Freia
14 'To me, Freia! Back from her, giant!' 1:17
Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt, Wotan
52:57

COMPACT DISC TWO
1 'This bond is graved on my spear's strong shaft' 0:58
Wotan, Freai, Fricka
2 'What? How am I concerned in a contract?' 4:15
Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt
3 'Never one word of praise or thanks!' 2:52
Loge
4 'But one I found then' 2:02
Loge
5 'So I promised I'd tell you the story' 1:05
Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner
6 'A toy, while it was in the waters' 2:01
Loge, Wotan, Fricka
7 'And I should possess it!' 4:38
Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh, Fricka, Fafner
8 'Hear, Wotan, I'll speak my last word!' 2:29
Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia, Froh, Donner
9 'Over rock and stone they stride' 3:07
Loge, Fricka, Donner, Froh
10 'I see now! Hear what is wrong!' 3:13
Loge, Fricka
11 'Come, Loge, descend with me!' 5:11
Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh, Fricka
Orchestral interlude

Scene 3
12 'Hehe! Hehe! Come here! Come here! 0:56
Alberich, Mime
13 'Ha, you rogue!' 2:25
Alberich, Mime
14 'Nibelheim here' 1:45
Loge, Mime, Wotan
15 'What help for me?' 5:06
Mime Loge, Wotan
16 'Better take care! Alberich's near' 2:56
Mime, Wotan, Alberich
17 'What brought you here?' 3:32
Alberich, Wotan, Loge
18 'In the clouds, you great ones' 3:23
Alberich, Wotan, Loge
19 'All must stand in amazement' 4:58
Loge, Alberich
56:54

COMPACT DISC THREE
1 'Ohe! Ohe! Terrible dragon' 3:20
Loge, Wotan, Alberich
2 'Now swiftly up!' 4:46
Loge
Orchestral interlude

Scene 4
3 'There, Alberich, sit on your throne!' 2:53
Loge, Alberich, Wotan
4 'And now the Niblungs will come to my call' 3:12
Alberich, Wotan
5 'The gold lies there; now let me go' 6:38
Alberich, Loge, Wotan
6 'Am I now free?' (Alberich's curve) 4:27
Alberich, Loge, Wotan
7 'Fasolt and Fafner come this way' 3:08
Loge, Froh, Donner, Fricka
8 'Wait! Don't touch her yet!' 3:12
Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner, Loge, Froh
9 'Far too loose you're piling the gold' 2:44
Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Donner
10 'Freia, the fair one, see I no more' 3:07
Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Freia, Fricka, Froh, Donner
11 'Yield it, Wotan, yield it!' (Erda's warning) 5:44
Erda, Wotan, Fricka, Froh
12 'Hear, you giants!' 2:13
Donner, Freia, Wotan
13 'Stop, you greedy one!' 2:25
Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan
14 'Your luck, Wotan, what could surpass it?' 2:25
Loge, Wotan, Fricka
15 'Sweltering mists hang in the air . . . Heda! Heda! Hedo!' 2:47
Donner
16 'The bridge leads you homeward' 1:52
Froh
17 'Evening rays flood the sky with splendour' 4:21
Wotan, Fricka, Loge
18 'Rhinegold! Rhinegold!' (Entry of the Gods into Valahlla) 4:52
Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Wotan, Loge
Orchestral postlude
64:08

Gods
Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wotan
Norman Welsby baritone - Donner
Robert Ferguson tenor - Froh
Emile Belcourt tenor - Loge

Giants
Robert Lloyd bass - Fasolt
Clifford Grant bass - Fafner

Nibelungs
Derek Hammond-Stroud baritone - Alberich
Gregory Dempsey tenor - Mime

Goddesses
Katherine Pring mezzo-soprano - Fricka
Lois McDonnall soprano - Freia
Anne Collins contralto - Erda

Rhinemaidens
Valerie Masterson soprano - Woglinde
Shelagh Squires mezzo-soprano - Wellgunde
Helen Attfield contralto - Flosshilde


English National Opera Chorus
English National Opera Orchestra
Reginald Goodall
Recorded in:
London Coliseum
live; 10, 19, 25 & 29 March 1975
Producer(s)
John Mordler
Sound Engineer(s)
Robert Gooch
Format: ADD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit Remaster