Opera - Siegfried

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)


Siegfried 278:48
Second Day of the Festival Play The Ring of the Nibelung
Music drama in three acts
Poem by Richard Wagner
English translation by Andrew Porter

COMPACT DISC ONE
Act I
1 Prelude 5:28

Scene 1
2 'Wearisome labour!' 4:05
Mime
3 'Hoiho! Hoiho!' 2:08
Siegfried, Mime
4 'Well, there are the pieces' 2:42
Siegfried, Mime
5 'A whimpering babe' 1:35
Mime
6 'Much you've taught to me, Mime' 9:54
Siegfried, Mime
7 'I found once in the wood' 5:58
Mime, Siegfried
8 'And now these fragments' 2:00
Siegfried, Mime
9 'He storms away!' 1:53
Mime

Scene 2
10 'Hail there, worthy smith!' 4:04
Wanderer, Mime
11 'I sit by your hearth' 12:07
Wanderer, Mime
12 'What you needed to know' 8:32
Wanderer, Mime
13 'The fragments! The sword!' 3:11
Mime, Wanderer
63:40

COMPACT DISC TWO
Scene 3
1 'Accursed light!' 1:15
Mime
2 'Hey there! You idler!' 4:14
Siegfried, Mime
3 'Have you not felt within the woods' 5:46
Mime, Siegfried
4 'Give me these pieces' 4:04
Siegfried, Mime
5 'Notung! Notung! Sword of my need!' 9:29
Siegfried, Mime
6 'Hoho! Hoho! Hohi!' (Forging Song) 7:05
Siegfried, Mime

Act II
7 Prelude 6:07

Scene 1
8 'In gloomy night by Fafner's cave I wait' 2:46
Alberich
9 'To Neidhöhl by night I have come' 7:21
Wanderer, Alberich
10 'Not my plan!' 3:00
Wanderer, Alberich
11 'Fafner! Fafner! You dragon, wake!' 3:05
Wanderer, Alberich, Fafner
12 'Now, Alberich! That plan failed!' 4:38
Wanderer, Alberich

Scene 2
13 'We go no further!' 6:32
Mime, Siegfried
14 'So he's no father of mine' 1:55
Siegfried
67:34

COMPACT DISC THREE
1 'Could I but know' (Forest Murmurs) 2:45
Siegfried
2 'See my mother -' (Forest Murmurs) 10:05
Siegfried
3 'Ha ha! At last with my call' 3:33
Siegfried, Fafner
4 'Who are you, youthful hero' 4:52
Fafner, Siegfried
5 'The dead can tell no tidings' 2:30
Siegfried, Woodbird

Scene 3
6 'Hehe! Sly and slippery knave' 3:12
Alberich, Mime
7 'Tarnhelm and ring, here they are' 3:13
Siegfried, Woodbird, Mime
8 'Be welcome, Siegfried!' 10:11
Mime, Siegfried, Alberich
9 'You lie there too, mighty dragon' 10:43
Siegfried, Woodbird

Act III
10 Prelude 3:00

Scene 1
11 'Waken, Wala! Wala! Awake!' 2:20
Wanderer
12 'Strong is your call' 12:16
Erda, Wanderer
13 'You unwise one, learn what I will' 4:31
Wanderer

Scene 2
14 'I see that Siegfried's near' 1:08
Wanderer
74:33

COMPACT DISC FOUR
1 'My woodbird fluttered away' 0:35
Siegfried
2 'Young man, hear me' 6:18
Wanderer, Siegfried
3 'Child, if you knew who I am' 5:44
Wanderer, Siegfried
4 'With his spear in splinters' 7:19
Siegfried

Scene 3
5 'Here in the sunlight' 4:00
Siegfried
6 'Come, my sword!' 11:49
Siegfried
7 'Hail, bright sunlight!' 4:30
Brünnhilde, Siegfried
8 'Siegfried! Siegfried! Glorious hero!' 8:30
Brünnhilde, Siegfried
9 'And there is Grane, my sacred horse' 9:11
Brünnhilde, Siegfried
10 'Oh! I cared always' 15:01
Brünnhilde, Siegfried
73:01
Alberto Remedios tenor - Siegfried
Gregory Dempsey tenor - Mime
Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wanderer
Derek Hammond-Stroud baritone - Alberich
Clifford Grant bass - Fafner
Anne Collins contralto - Erda
Rita Hunter soprano - Brünnhilde
Maurine London soprano - Voice of the Woodbird
Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
Barry Tuckwell solo horn
Reginald Goodall
Recorded in:
London Coliseum
2, 8 & 21 August 1973
Producer(s)
Robert Kinloch Anderson
Sound Engineer(s)
Stuart Eltham
Robert Gooch
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit Remaster