Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen – Explorations

"Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen – Explorations album by Claudia Hellmann on Archodia Music"

Release Date: 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • In the Ring’s preliminary evening...
  • The Ring of the Nibelung is the largest...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 2: "So weit Leben und Luft" - Edit
  • In the first act of The Valkyrie, a solitary cello...
  • Die Walküre / Erster Aufzug: "Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell" - Edit
  • That was Loge’s account...
  • There are numerous Beethovenian touches...
  • Under this spell...
  • Die Walküre / Erster Aufzug: Orchestervorspiel - Edit
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 2: Absteig nach Nibelheim - Excerpt 1
  • This has its roots…
  • The hut in which Siegmund has sought refuge...
  • Die Walküre / Erster Aufzug: Motives of Siegmund & Sieglinde - Edit
  • Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": II. Molto vivace - Edit
  • Hunding retires for the evening...
  • It is often said...
  • Die Walküre / Erster Aufzug: "Du bist der Lenz" - Edit
  • Let’s consider one example in Das Rheingold...
  • For the first time, in the moonlight...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 2: "Höhnst du uns? Ha, wie unrecht!" - edit
  • The first act of The Valkyrie is unsurpassed...
  • The second reason...
  • As a young radical, he argued...
  • A gently undulating theme appears...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 1: Vorspiel - "Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle!" - Edit
  • Woglinde’s melody is a lullaby...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 1: Orchesterzwischenspiel - Edit
  • Wotan, like many leaders...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 2: Valhalla Motive - Edit
  • But all is not sweetness...
  • When Loge first appears...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 3: Loge's Motive - Edit
  • Loge enjoys one special advantage...
  • Das Rheingold / Zweite Szene: "Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild?" - Edit
  • Determined to obtain the ring...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 2: Absteig nach Nibelheim - Excerpt 2
  • Die Walküre / Dritter Aufzug: "Der dich zwingt, wird dir's entziehn!"
  • What happens next is a black comedy...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 2: "Nacht und Nebel, niemand gleich!" - Edit
  • Wagner puts many chilling passages...
  • Wagner’s orchestration is nowhere more varied...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 4: "Willig glaub' ich dem Wunder"
  • The refrain recurs each time...
  • Das Rheingold / Scene 3: Tarnhelm Motive - Edit
  • The myths and legends of the north...
  • As with the Ring, the subjects of Greek tragedy...
  • Then, in one of the most vitriolic passages...
  • Das Rheingold / Vierte Szene: "Bin ich nun frei?" - Edit
  • With the return of Freia...
  • In a great symphonic climax...
  • Das Rheingold, WWV 86A / Scene 4: "Rheingold! Rheingold! Reines Gold!"