Opera - The Valkyrie

The Reginald Goodall Ring Cycle

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

The Valkyrie

249:14

First Day of the Festival Play The Ring of the Nibelung

Music drama in three acts

Poem by Richard Wagner

English translation by Andrew Porter

Act I

Prelude

4:20

Scene 1

'The storm drove me here'

5:36

Siegmund, Sieglinde

'This house and this wife'

4:11

Sieglinde, Siegmund

'Evil fortune's never far from me'

4:17

Siegmund, Sieglinde

Scene 2

'There he lay, feeble and faint'

3:03

Sieglinde, Hunding, Siegmund

'Through field and forest'

2:02

Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde

'Friedmund no one could call me'

3:35

Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde

'The Neidings raided again'

3:01

Siegmund

'So the Norn who dealt you this fate'

4:50

Hunding, Sieglinde, Siegmund

'I know a troublesome race'

6:13

Hunding

Scene 3

'A sword was pledged by my father'

6:41

Siegmund

'Are you awake?'

1:12

Sieglinde, Siegmund

'My husband's kinsmen'

4:48

Sieglinde

'Yes, loveliest bride'

1:37

Siegmund, Sieglinde

'Winter storms have vanished' (Siegmund's Spring Song)

3:41

Siegmund

'You are the Spring'

2:19

Sieglinde

'Oh sweetest enchantment'

3:21

Siegmund, Sieglinde

'The stream has shown my reflected face'

4:05

Sieglinde, Siegmund

'Siegmund call me, and Siegmund am I'

1:33

Siegmund

'Siegmund, the Wälsung, here you see!'

2:36

Siegmund, Sieglinde

Act II

Scene 1

'Go bridle your horse, warrior maid!'

2:58

Wotan

'Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho!' (Brünnhilde's Battle Cry)

2:33

Brünnhilde

'The usual storm, the usual strife!'

2:02

Wotan, Fricka

'Pretend that you don't understand!'

1:37

Fricka, Wotan

'Now it's come to pass!'

1:00

Wotan

'So this is the end of the gods and their glory'

3:36

Fricka

'You never learn what I would teach you'

6:00

Wotan, Fricka

'What must I do?'

2:21

Wotan, Fricka

'Hiaha! Hiaha! Hoyotoho!'

3:45

Brünnhilde, Fricka, Wotan

Scene 2

'Fricka has won the fight'

5:27

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'When youth's delightful pleasures had waned'

2:33

Wotan

'She refused to reveal more about it'

2:45

Wotan, Brünnhilde

'There's more to tell'

2:25

Wotan

'Yet one can accomplish what I may not'

2:30

Wotan

'But the Wählsung, Siegmund'

1:18

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'Then Siegmund must fall in his fight?'

3:56

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'I give you my blessing, Nibelung son!'

1:38

Wotan, Brünnhilde

'No, have mercy'

3:43

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'So I obey his command'

4:24

Brünnhilde

Scene 3

'Rest here for a while, stay by my side!'

3:05

Siegmund, Sieglinde

Away! Away!'

4:46

Sieglinde, Siegmund

'Where are you, Siegmund?'

5:22

Sieglinde, Siegmund

Scene 4

'Siegmund! Look at me!' (Announcement of Death)

3:19

Brünnhilde, Siegmund

'And if I come'

4:34

Siegmund, Brünnhilde

'Then greet for me Walhall'

3:51

Siegmund, Brünnhilde

'Woe! Woe! Sister and bride'

4:42

Siegmund, Brünnhilde

'Two lives now lie in your power'

2:37

Siegmund, Brünnhilde

Scene 5

'Charms of sleep are sent to still'

3:12

Siegmund

'I hear your call'

2:09

Siegmund, Sieglinde

'Wehwalt! Wehwalt!'

5:55

Hunding, Siegmund, Sieglinde, Brünnhilde, Wotan

Act III

Scene 1

'Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho!' (Ride of the Valkyries)

9:00

Gerhilde, Helmwige, Waltraute, Schwerleite, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Rossweisse

'Shield me and help'

1:25

Brünnhilde, The Eight Valkyries

'Hear while I tell you'

2:38

Brünnhilde, The Eight Valkyries

'Pray suffer no sorrow for me'

3:59

Sieglinde, Brünnhilde, The Eight Valkyries

'Fly him swiftly, away to the east!'

1:24

Brünnhilde

'O radiant wonder!' (Parting Salute)

0:49

Sieglinde

'Stay, Brünnhild!'

1:07

Wotan, The Eight Valkyries, Brünnhilde

Scene 2

'Where is Brünnhild?'

1:39

Wotan, The Eight Valkyries

'Weak-spirited, womanish brood!'

2:59

Wotan

'Here I am, father'

2:47

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'No more will you ride from Walhall'

3:05

Wotan, The Eight Valkyries, Brünnhilde

'Did you not hear what I decreed?'

4:56

Wotan, The Eight Valkyries

Scene 3

'Was it so shameful?'

3:51

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'I know so little'

4:00

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'You, who this live into my heart revealed'

4:06

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'You indulged your love'

0:54

Wotan

'Unworthy of you this foolish maid'

3:14

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'You fathered a glorious race'

2:50

Brünnhilde, Wotan

'In long, deep sleep'

3:05

Wotan, Brünnhilde

'Farewell, my valiant, glorious child!' (Wotan's Farewell)

5:00

Wotan

'These eyes so warm and so bright'

7:48

Wotan

'Loge, hear! Come at my call!'

1:26

Wotan

Magic Fire Music

3:57

Wotan

Alberto Remedios tenor - Siegmund

Clifford Grant bass - Hunding

Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wotan

Margaret Curphey soprano - Sieglinde

Rita Hunter soprano - Brünnhilde

Ann Howard mezzo-soprano - Fricka

Reginald Goodall

18. 20 and 23 December 1975