Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Label: EMI
Cat No: 5194792
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 14
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 14th April 2008
Contents
Artists
Hans TschammerPeter Seiffert
Andreas Schmidt
Kurt Rydl
Jadwiga Rappe
Susan Quittmeyer
James Morris
Julie Kaufmann
Marjana Lipovsek
Eva Johansson
Silvia Herman
Peter Haage
Theo Adam
Heinz Zednik
Reiner Goldberg
Ruth Falcon
Carolyn Watkinson
Ute Walther
Cheryl Studer
Anita Soldh
Matti Salminen
Waltraud Meier
Eva Marton
Margarita Lilowa
Ursula Kunz
Margaretha Hintermeier
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Siegfried Jerusalem
Thomas Hampson
Christine Hagen
Jane Eaglen
Eva-Maria Bundschuh
Anne Sofie von Otter
John Tomlinson
Jard Van Nes
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Bernard HaitinkWorks
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (complete)Artists
Hans TschammerPeter Seiffert
Andreas Schmidt
Kurt Rydl
Jadwiga Rappe
Susan Quittmeyer
James Morris
Julie Kaufmann
Marjana Lipovsek
Eva Johansson
Silvia Herman
Peter Haage
Theo Adam
Heinz Zednik
Reiner Goldberg
Ruth Falcon
Carolyn Watkinson
Ute Walther
Cheryl Studer
Anita Soldh
Matti Salminen
Waltraud Meier
Eva Marton
Margarita Lilowa
Ursula Kunz
Margaretha Hintermeier
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Siegfried Jerusalem
Thomas Hampson
Christine Hagen
Jane Eaglen
Eva-Maria Bundschuh
Anne Sofie von Otter
John Tomlinson
Jard Van Nes
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Bernard HaitinkAbout
If one believes the truth that all grand art can be interpreted differently and inspire cultured debate then “The Ring” undoubtedly qualifies for that epithet.
Richard Wagner started by writing the book of prose, entitled “Siegfried’s Death” in which the heroine Brunnhilde would take the body of Siegfried back to Walhalla, much of which is now the final opera Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods).
He then worked the story backwards to show how Siegfried lived his life and then to explain how Siegfried came to be. He wrote what we now know as Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) centred around Brunnhilde and how she disobeyed the head of the Gods and her father, Wotan, and became a mortal. Finally he took the story back to the beginning before Alberich, the dwarf or Nibelung of the title, steals the gold from the Rhinemaidens and fashions a ring through whose power he plans to rule the world,
Productions have treated it as a great adventure story with the perpetual battle of “The love of Power against the power of Love”, a political allegory based, it seems, at any time in the history of the world with the major players wearing as many personae as the directors who have produced the opera. As often is the case, the best production is in one’s imagination as there dwarves, giants, humans, dragons, magic helmets and rings can truly come alive.
Wagner helps us in this respect as he carefully selects and blends certain tunes or motives which represent an animate or inanimate object, an emotion or feeling. So when these are sounded the listener has this signpost which informs him, for example, which character is around or being talked about or even what a character is thinking even though he may be saying something else.
To do justice to such an enterprise, much hard work needs to be expended with the involvement of a huge cast including singers in all vocal ranges with prodigious powers of expression, a chorus of great strength and a superb orchestra all under the guidance of a conductor who must be fully experienced in the ways of the theatre and music. Backing them up, a first rate technical and musical team of producers and engineers to create the ambience that is demanded by the score.
EMI Classics were fortunate to secure all of these in this recording.
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