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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Das Rheingold
The Rhinegold

Live recording in stereo from
London Coliseum 1975
March 10, 19, 25 & 29, 1975

Sung in English

Chandos 3 CDs ADD, 75

 
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:

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

Content:

Disc 1

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

 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

 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