Opera - The Rhinegold
The Reginald Goodall Ring Cycle
RICHARD WAGNER
(1813-1883)
The Rhinegold
174:00
Preliminary Evening to the Festival Play
The Ring of the Nibelung
Music drama in four scenes
Poem by Richard Wagner
English translation by Andrew Porter
Scene 1
1
Orchestral prelude
5:01
2
'Weia! Waga! Wandering waters'
1:33
Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
3
'He, he! You nixies!'
1:40
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
4
'Slimy, slippery, slithery smoothness!'
9:57
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
5
'Look, sisters! The sunlight is greeting the gold'
2:41
Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
6
'What's that, you nixies . . .?'
5:01
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
7
'The world's wealth can be mine . . .?'
1:01
Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde
8
'Still not afraid?'
4:39
Alberich, Flosshilde, Wellgunde, Woglinde
Orchestral interlude
Scene 2
9
'Wotan, my lord! Awaken!'
6:12
Fricka, Wotan
10
'For I wished you faithful and true'
2:59
Fricka, Wotan
11
'Then shelter her now'
2:24
Fricka, Freia, Wotan
12
'Soft sleep closed your eyes'
3:20
Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner
13
'God of light, light of spirit!'
5:09
Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner, Freia
14
'To me, Freia! Back from her, giant!'
1:17
Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt, Wotan
15
'This bond is graved on my spear's strong shaft'
0:58
Wotan, Freai, Fricka
16
'What? How am I concerned in a contract?'
4:15
Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt
17
'Never one word of praise or thanks!'
2:52
Loge
18
'But one I found then'
2:02
Loge
19
'So I promised I'd tell you the story'
1:05
Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner
20
'A toy, while it was in the waters'
2:01
Loge, Wotan, Fricka
21
'And I should possess it!'
4:38
Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh, Fricka, Fafner
22
'Hear, Wotan, I'll speak my last word!'
2:29
Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia, Froh, Donner
23
'Over rock and stone they stride'
3:07
Loge, Fricka, Donner, Froh
24
'I see now! Hear what is wrong!'
3:13
Loge, Fricka
25
'Come, Loge, descend with me!'
5:11
Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh, Fricka
Orchestral interlude
Scene 3
26
'Hehe! Hehe! Come here! Come here!
0:56
Alberich, Mime
27
'Ha, you rogue!'
2:25
Alberich, Mime
28
'Nibelheim here'
1:45
Loge, Mime, Wotan
29
'What help for me?'
5:06
Mime Loge, Wotan
30
'Better take care! Alberich's near'
2:56
Mime, Wotan, Alberich
31
'What brought you here?'
3:32
Alberich, Wotan, Loge
32
'In the clouds, you great ones'
3:23
Alberich, Wotan, Loge
33
'All must stand in amazement'
4:58
Loge, Alberich
34
'Ohe! Ohe! Terrible dragon'
3:20
Loge, Wotan, Alberich
35
'Now swiftly up!'
4:46
Loge
Orchestral interlude
Scene 4
36
'There, Alberich, sit on your throne!'
2:53
Loge, Alberich, Wotan
37
'And now the Niblungs will come to my call'
3:12
Alberich, Wotan
38
'The gold lies there; now let me go'
6:38
Alberich, Loge, Wotan
39
'Am I now free?' (Alberich's curve)
4:27
Alberich, Loge, Wotan
40
'Fasolt and Fafner come this way'
3:08
Loge, Froh, Donner, Fricka
41
'Wait! Don't touch her yet!'
3:12
Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner, Loge, Froh
42
'Far too loose you're piling the gold'
2:44
Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Donner
43
'Freia, the fair one, see I no more'
3:07
Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Freia, Fricka, Froh, Donner
44
'Yield it, Wotan, yield it!' (Erda's warning)
5:44
Erda, Wotan, Fricka, Froh
45
'Hear, you giants!'
2:13
Donner, Freia, Wotan
46
'Stop, you greedy one!'
2:25
Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan
47
'Your luck, Wotan, what could surpass it?'
2:25
Loge, Wotan, Fricka
48
'Sweltering mists hang in the air . . . Heda! Heda! Hedo!'
2:47
Donner
49
'The bridge leads you homeward'
1:52
Froh
50
'Evening rays flood the sky with splendour'
4:21
Wotan, Fricka, Loge
51
'Rhinegold! Rhinegold!' (Entry of the Gods into Valahlla)
4:52
Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Wotan, Loge
Orchestral postlude
Gods
Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wotan
Norman Welsby baritone - Donner
Robert Ferguson tenor - Froh
Emile Belcourt tenor - Loge
Giants
Robert Lloyd bass - Fasolt
Clifford Grant bass - Fafner
Nibelungs
Derek Hammond-Stroud baritone - Alberich
Gregory Dempsey tenor - Mime
Goddesses
Katherine Pring mezzo-soprano - Fricka
Lois McDonnall soprano - Freia
Anne Collins contralto - Erda
Rhinemaidens
Valerie Masterson soprano - Woglinde
Shelagh Squires mezzo-soprano - Wellgunde
Helen Attfield contralto - Flosshilde
Reginald Goodall
live; 10, 19, 25 & 29 March 1975