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Richard Wagner  (1813-1883)

Siegfried

Gesamtaufnahme London 1973
Sung in English

Live recording in stereo from
London Coliseum - August 2, 8 & 21, 1973


Chandos 4CD Box, ADD/LA, 73


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:

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

Content:

Disc 1 of 4

Siegfried (Drama in 3 Acts) (composite recording)

01   Prelude (1. Act)
02   Wearisome labour! (1. Scene)
03   Hoiho! hoiho!
04   Well, there are the pieces
05   A whimpering babe
06   Much you've taught to me, Mime
07   I found once in the wood
08   And now these fragments
09   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 2 of 4

01   Accursed light! (3. Scene)
02   Hey there! You idler!
03   Have you not felt within the woods
04   Give me these pieces
05   Notung! Notung! Sword of my need!
06   Hoho! Hoho! Hohi!
07   Prelude (2. Act)
08   In gloomy night by Fafner's cave I wait (1. Scene)
09   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 3 of 4

01   Could I but know
02   See my mother
03   Ha ha! At last with my call
04   Who are you, youthful hero
05   The deyad can tell no tidings
06   Hehe! Sly and slippery knave (3. Scene)
07   Tarnhelm and ring, here they are
08   Be welcome, Siegfried!
09   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 4 of 4

01   My woodbird fluttered away
02   Young man, hear me
03   Child, if you knew who I am
04   With his spear in splinters
05   Here in the sunlight (3. Scene)
06   Come, my sword!
07   Hail, bright sunlight!
08   Siegfried! Siegfried! Glorious hero!
09   And there is Grane, my sacred horse
10   Oh! I cared always

CD 1: 63:40
CD 2: 67:34
CD 3: 74:33
CD 4: 73:01