Opera - Siegfried

The Reginald Goodall Ring Cycle

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

Siegfried

278:48

Second 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

1

Prelude

5:28

Scene 1

2

'Wearisome labour!'

4:05

Mime

3

'Hoiho! Hoiho!'

2:08

Siegfried, Mime

4

'Well, there are the pieces'

2:42

Siegfried, Mime

5

'A whimpering babe'

1:35

Mime

6

'Much you've taught to me, Mime'

9:54

Siegfried, Mime

7

'I found once in the wood'

5:58

Mime, Siegfried

8

'And now these fragments'

2:00

Siegfried, Mime

9

'He storms away!'

1:53

Mime

Scene 2

10

'Hail there, worthy smith!'

4:04

Wanderer, Mime

11

'I sit by your hearth'

12:07

Wanderer, Mime

12

'What you needed to know'

8:32

Wanderer, Mime

13

'The fragments! The sword!'

3:11

Mime, Wanderer

Scene 3

14

'Accursed light!'

1:15

Mime

15

'Hey there! You idler!'

4:14

Siegfried, Mime

16

'Have you not felt within the woods'

5:46

Mime, Siegfried

17

'Give me these pieces'

4:04

Siegfried, Mime

18

'Notung! Notung! Sword of my need!'

9:29

Siegfried, Mime

19

'Hoho! Hoho! Hohi!' (Forging Song)

7:05

Siegfried, Mime

Act II

20

Prelude

6:07

Scene 1

21

'In gloomy night by Fafner's cave I wait'

2:46

Alberich

22

'To Neidhöhl by night I have come'

7:21

Wanderer, Alberich

23

'Not my plan!'

3:00

Wanderer, Alberich

24

'Fafner! Fafner! You dragon, wake!'

3:05

Wanderer, Alberich, Fafner

25

'Now, Alberich! That plan failed!'

4:38

Wanderer, Alberich

Scene 2

26

'We go no further!'

6:32

Mime, Siegfried

27

'So he's no father of mine'

1:55

Siegfried

28

'Could I but know' (Forest Murmurs)

2:45

Siegfried

29

'See my mother -' (Forest Murmurs)

10:05

Siegfried

30

'Ha ha! At last with my call'

3:33

Siegfried, Fafner

31

'Who are you, youthful hero'

4:52

Fafner, Siegfried

32

'The dead can tell no tidings'

2:30

Siegfried, Woodbird

Scene 3

33

'Hehe! Sly and slippery knave'

3:12

Alberich, Mime

34

'Tarnhelm and ring, here they are'

3:13

Siegfried, Woodbird, Mime

35

'Be welcome, Siegfried!'

10:11

Mime, Siegfried, Alberich

36

'You lie there too, mighty dragon'

10:43

Siegfried, Woodbird

Act III

37

Prelude

3:00

Scene 1

38

'Waken, Wala! Wala! Awake!'

2:20

Wanderer

39

'Strong is your call'

12:16

Erda, Wanderer

40

'You unwise one, learn what I will'

4:31

Wanderer

Scene 2

41

'I see that Siegfried's near'

1:08

Wanderer

42

'My woodbird fluttered away'

0:35

Siegfried

43

'Young man, hear me'

6:18

Wanderer, Siegfried

44

'Child, if you knew who I am'

5:44

Wanderer, Siegfried

45

'With his spear in splinters'

7:19

Siegfried

Scene 3

46

'Here in the sunlight'

4:00

Siegfried

47

'Come, my sword!'

11:49

Siegfried

48

'Hail, bright sunlight!'

4:30

Brünnhilde, Siegfried

49

'Siegfried! Siegfried! Glorious hero!'

8:30

Brünnhilde, Siegfried

50

'And there is Grane, my sacred horse'

9:11

Brünnhilde, Siegfried

51

'Oh! I cared always'

15:01

Brünnhilde, Siegfried

Alberto Remedios tenor - Siegfried

Gregory Dempsey tenor - Mime

Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wanderer

Derek Hammond-Stroud baritone - Alberich

Clifford Grant bass - Fafner

Anne Collins contralto - Erda

Rita Hunter soprano - Brünnhilde

George London soprano - Voice of the Woodbird

Barry Tuckwell solo horn

Reginald Goodall

2, 8 & 21 August 1973