London 1977 Goodall englisch| CD Richard Wagner Wagnerportal Oper International Gesamtaufnahmen Der Ring des Nibelungen London 1977 englisch gesungen Reginald Goodall

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Der Ring des Nibelungen
The Ring Cycle

Live recording in stereo from
London Coliseum 1973 - 77

Sung in English

Chandos 16 CDs ADD, 73-77

 
Conductor: Reginald Goodall
English National Opera Chorus 
English National Opera Movement Group
Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra 
English National Opera Orchestra
Kenneth Cleveland Chorleiter

Performing artists and content:

The Rhinegold 3 CD-Box

March 10, 19, 25 & 29, 1975

Performing artists:

Wotan - Norman Bailey
Donner - Norman Welsby
Froh - Robert Ferguson
Loge - Emile Belcourt
Alberich - Derek Hammond-Stroud
Mime - Gregory Dempsey
Fasolt - Robert Lloyd
Fafner - Clifford Grant
Fricka - Katherine Pring
Freia - Lois McDonnall
Erda - Anne Collins
Woglinde - Valerie Masterson
Wellgunde - Shelagh Squires
Floßhilde - Helen Attfield
CD 1: 52:57
CD 2: 56:54
CD 3: 64:08

The Valkyrie - 4 CD Box

December 18, 20 & 23, 1975

Performing artists:

Siegmund - Alberto Remedios
Sieglinde - Margaret Curphey
Wotan - Norman Bailey
Brünnhilde - Rita Hunter
Hunding - Clifford Grant
Fricka - Anne Howard
Gerhilde - Katie Clarke
Ortlinde - Anne Conoley
Waltraute - Elisabeth Connell
Schwertleite - Helen Attfield
Helmwige - Anne Evans
Siegrune - Sarah Walker
Grimgerde - Shelagh Squires
Roßweiße - Anne Collins
CD 1: 73:06
CD 2: 52:09
CD 3: 47:57
CD 4: 76:02

Siegfried - 4CD Box

August 2, 8 & 21, 1973

Performing artists:

Siegfried - Alberto Remedios
Mime - Gregory Dempsey
Brünnhilde - Rita Hunter
Wanderer-  Norman Bailey
Alberich - Derek Hammond-Stroud
Fafner - Clifford Grant
Erda - Anne Collins
Waldvogel - Maurine London
CD 1: 63:40
CD 2: 67:34
CD 3: 74:33
CD 4: 73:01

Twilight of the Gods - 5 CD Box

August 6, 13 & 27, 1977

Performing artists:
 
Brünnhilde - Rita Hunter
Siegfried - Alberto Remedios
Hagen - Aage Haugland
Alberich - Derek Hammond-Stroud
Gunther - Norman Welsby
Gutrune - Margaret Curphey
Waltraute - Katherine Pring
Woglinde - Valerie Masterson
Wellgunde - Shelagh Squires
Floßhilde - Helen Attfield
1. Norne - Anne Collins
2. Norne - Gillian Knight
3. Norne - Anne Evans
CD 1: 71:33
cD 2: 66:45
CD 3: 78:58
CD 4: 44:33
CD 5: 49:40

Content:

Disc 1 of 16

The Rhinegold (Drama in 4 Scenes) (Composite recording)

 1   Orchestral prelude (1. Scene)
 2   Weia! Waga! Wandering waters'
 3   He, he! You nisxies!
 4   Slimpy, slippery, slithery smoothless!
 5   Look, sisters! The sunlight is greeting the gold
 6   What's that, you nixies...?
 7   The world's wealth can be mine...?
 8   Still not afraid? - Orchestral interlude
 9   Wotan, my lord! Awaken! (2. Scene)
10   For I wished you faithful and true
11   Then shelter her now
12   Soft sleep closed your eyes
13   God of light, light of spirit!
14   To me, Freia! Back her, giant!

Disc 2 of 16

 1   This bond is graved on my spear's strong shaft
 2   What? How am I concerned in a contract?
 3   Never one word of praise or thanks!
 4   But one I found then
 5   So I promised I'd tell you the story
 6   A toy, while it was in the waters
 7   And I should posses it!
 8   Hear, Wotan, I'll speak my last word!
 9   Over rock and stone they stride
10   I see now! Hear what is wrong!
11   Come, Loge, descend with me!
12   Hehe! Hehe! Come here! Come here! (3. Scene)
13   Ha, you rogue!
14   Nibelheim here
15   What help for me?
16   Better take care! Alberich's near
17   What brought you here?
18   In the clouds, you great ones
19   All must stand in amazement

Disc 3 of 16

 1   Ohe! Ohe! Terrible dragon'
 2   Now swiftly up! - Orchestral interlude
 3   There, Albrich, sit on your throne! (4. Scene)
 4   And now the Niblungs will come to my call
 5   The gold lies there; now let me go
 6   Am I now free?
 7   Fasolt and Fafner come this way
 8   Wait! Don't touch her yet!
 9   Far too loose you're piling the gold
10   Freia, the fair one, see I no more
11   Yield it, Wotan, yield it!
12   Hear, you giants!
13   Stop, you greedy one!
14   Your luck, Wotan, what could surpass it?
15   Swelrering mists hang in the air... Heda! Heda! Hedo!
16   The bridge leads you homeward
17   Evening rays flood the sky with splendour
18   Rhinegold! Rhinegold! - Orchestral postlude

Disc 4 of 16

The Valkyrie (Drama in 3 Acts) (Composite recording)

 1   Prelude (1. Act)
 2   The storm drove me here (1. Scene)
 3   This house and this wife
 4   Evil fortune's never far from me
 5   There he lay, feeble and faint (2. Scene)
 6   Through field and forest
 7   Friedmund no one could call me
 8   The Neidings raided again
 9   So the Norn who dealt you this fate
10   I know a troublesome race
11   A sword was pledged by my father (3. Scene)
12   Are you awake?
13   My husband's kinsmen
14   Yes, loveliest bride
15   Winter storms have vanished
16   You are the Spring
17   Oh sweetest enchantment
18   The stream has shown my reflected face
19   Siegmund call me, and Siegmund am I!
20   Siegmund, the Wälsung, here you see!

Disc 5 of 16

 1   Go bridle your horse, warrior maid! (2. Act, 1. Scene)
 2   Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho!
 3   The usual storm, the usual strife!
 4   Pretend that you don't understand!
 5   Now it's come to pass!
 6   So this is the end of the gods amd their glory
 7   You never learn what I would teach you
 8   What must I do?
 9   Hiaha! Hiaha! Hoyotoho!
10   Fricka has won the fight (2. Scene)
11   When youth's delightful pleasures had waned
12   She refused to reveal more about it
13   There's more to tell
14   Yet one can accomplish what I may may not
15   But the Wälsung, Siegmund
16   Then Siegmund must fall in his fight?
17   I give you my blöessing, Niblung son!
18   No, have mercy

Disc 6 of 16

 1   So I obey his command
 2   Rest here for a while; stay by my side! (3. Scene)
 3   Away! Away!
 4   Where are you, Siegmund?
 5   Siegmund! Look at me! (4. Scene)
 6   And if I come
 7   Then greet for me Wallhall
 8   Woe! Woe! Sister and bride
 9   Two lives now lie in your power
10   Charmes of sleep are sent to still (5. Scene)
11   I hear your call
12   Wehwalt! Wehwalt!

Disc 7 of 16

 1   Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho! (3. Act, 1. Scene)
 2   Shield me and help
 3   Hear while I tell
 4   Pray suffer no sorrow for me
 5   Fly him swifly, away to the east!
 6   O radiant wonder!
 7   Stay, Brünnhild!
 8   Where is Brünnhild? (2. Scene)
 9   Weak-spirited, womanish brood!
10   Here am I, father
11   No more will you ride from Wallhall
12   Didi you not hear what I decreed?
13   Was it so shameful? (3. Scene)
14   I know so little
15   You, who this love into my heart revealted
16   You ingulged your love
17   Unworth of you this foolish maid
18   You fathered a glorious race
19   In long, deep sleep
20   Farewell, my valiant, glorious child!
21   These eyes so warm and so bright
22   Loge, hear! Come at my call!
23   Magic Fire Music

Disc 8 of 16

Siegfried (Drama in 3 Acts) (composite recording)

 1   Prelude (1. Act)
 2   Wearisome labour! (1. Scene)
 3   Hoiho! hoiho!
 4   Well, there are the pieces
 5   A whimpering babe
 6   Much you've taught to me, Mime
 7   I found once in the wood
 8   And now these fragments
 9   He storms away!
10   Hail there, worthy smith! (2. Scene)
11   I sit by your hearth
12   What you needed to know
13   The fragments! The sword!

Disc 9 of 16

 1   Accursed light! (3. Scene)
 2   Hey there! You idler!
 3   Have you not felt within the woods
 4   Give me these pieces
 5   Notung! Notung! Sword of my need!
 6   Hoho! Hoho! Hohi!
 7   Prelude (2. Act)
 8   In gloomy night by Fafner's cave I wait (1. Scene)
 9   To Neidhöhl by night I have come
10   Not my plan!
11   Fafner! Fafner! You dragon, wake!
12   Now, Alberich! That plan failed!
13   We go no further! (2. Scene)
14   So he's no father of mine

Disc 10 of 16

 1   Could I but know
 2   See my mother
 3   Ha ha! At last with my call
 4   Who are you, youthful hero
 5   The deyad can tell no tidings
 6   Hehe! Sly and slippery knave (3. Scene)
 7   Tarnhelm and ring, here they are
 8   Be welcome, Siegfried!
 9   You lie there too, mighty dragon
10   Prelude (3. Act)
11   Waken, Wala! Wala! Awake! (1. Scene)
12   Strong is your call
13   You unwise one, learn what I will
14   I see that Siegfried's near (2. Scene)

Disc 11 of 16

 1   My woodbird fluttered away
 2   Young man, hear me
 3   Child, if you knew who I am
 4   With his spear in splinters
 5   Here in the sunlight (3. Scene)
 6   Come, my sword!
 7   Hail, bright sunlight!
 8   Siegfried! Siegfried! Glorious hero!
 9   And there is Grane, my sacred horse
10   Oh! I cared always

Disc 12 of 16

Twilight of the Gods (Drama in 1 Prelude and 3 Acts)

 1   What light shines down there? (Prelude)
 2   Wotan made holy laws and treaties
 3   That mighty hall the giants have raised
 4   Now the god will seize the spear that was shattered
 5   Dawn music - To deeds of glory
 6   Ah, but to prove you love me
 7   Love, I leave you alone
 8   So by your daring I am fired
 9   O heavenly rulers!
10   Siegfried's Rhine Journey
11   Now hear, Hagen (1. Act, 1. Scene)
12   What woman should I wed
13   At Neidhöhle the Nibelung gold was guarded
14   You mock me, wicked Hagen!
15   Merrily seeking adventures and fame
16   Which is Gibich's son? (2. Szene)
17   I welcome you, my friend
18   That treasure I quite forgot
19   Welcome, O guest, to Gibich's house!

Disc 13 of 16

 1   Flourishing life's refreshing blood
 2   Now on our way!
 3   I sit here and wait
 4   Sounds I once knew so well (3. Scene)
 5   You've come to me?
 6   Fear and dread I read in your features!
 7   Hear me with care, and I will tell you!
 8   He sits there, speaks no word
 9   These tales of evil fancies
10   Upon your hand, the ring
11   Go home to the sacred clan of the gods!
12   Borne on the wind
13   Brünnhild! Your husband comes
14   The night draws on
15   Now nothing can save me
16   With your brother I promised to serve
17   I fear not the flames

Disc 14 of 16

 1   Prelude (2. Act, 1. Scene)
 2   Sleep you, Hagen, my son?
 3   The might of the gods
 4   Help me!
 5   That ring shall be Hangen's
 6   Hoiho! Hagen! Fast asleep? (2. Scene)
 7   Yet my Siegfried was with Brünnhild?
 8   I can see a sail in the distance
 9   Hoiho! Hoihohoho! (3. Scene)
10   Come to my call, and arm yourselves!
11   Glad times have come
12   Elcome, Gunther! (4. Scene)
13   I greet you, noble friend
14   A ring I saw upon your hand
15   Ha! - Siegfried stole it
16   Hear in Wallhall, mighty immortals!
17   Would you defile your name so lightly?
18   Shining steel! Holiest weapon!
19   Gunther, look to your wife there
20   Dark, unholy powers lie here around me! (5. Scene)
21   Have trust in me, offended wife!
22   Can no weapon's point then pierce him?
23   Deceived am I - and deceiver!
24   He betrayed you

Disc 15 of 16

 1   Since this blow must be dealt her
 2   Prelude (3. Act)
 3   Fair sunlight, shine on us in splendour (1. Scene)
 4   Fair sunlight, send to us the hero
 5   A goblin led me stray
 6   Siegfried, if we find your bear
 7   Why shuold I let them laugh and jeer?
 8   Siegfried!... Give heed to our word'
 9   Come, sisters! Flee from this madman!
10   Hoiho! (2. Scene)
11   You drove the game away from us
12   Drink, Gunther, drink
13   Mime was a hideous dwarf
14   Now you must hear what happened next
15   Ring and Tanrhelm - both I had found
16   In grief I watched the branches above

Disc 16 of 16

 1   Brünnhilde! Holiest bride!
 2   Siegfried's Funeral March
 3   Was that his horn?
 4   Ah, if Siegfried were back!
 5   Not the blame on me
 6   Peace with your cries of useless lament!
 7   Poor creature, peace!
 8   Sturday branches, building his pyre
 9   The sun in radiance shines from his eyes
10   O you, you guardians
11   My heritage I claim from the hero
12   Fly home, you ravens!
13   Grane, my horse!
14   Give back the ring