Opera - Siegfried
RICHARD WAGNER
(1813-1883)
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
Scene 1
2.
'Wearisome labour!'
4:05
Mime
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
1.
'Accursed light!'
1:15
2.
'Hey there! You idler!'
4:14
3.
'Have you not felt within the woods'
5:46
4.
'Give me these pieces'
4:04
5.
'Notung! Notung! Sword of my need!'
9:29
6.
'Hoho! Hoho! Hohi!' (Forging Song)
7:05
8.
'In gloomy night by Fafner's cave I wait'
2:46
9.
'To Neidhöhl by night I have come'
7:21
11.
'Fafner! Fafner! You dragon, wake!'
3:05
12.
'Now, Alberich! That plan failed!'
4:38
13.
'We go no further!'
6:32
14.
'So he's no father of mine'
1:55
1.
'Could I but know' (Forest Murmurs)
2:45
2.
'See my mother -' (Forest Murmurs)
10:05
3.
'Ha ha! At last with my call'
3:33
4.
'Who are you, youthful hero'
4:52
5.
'The dead can tell no tidings'
2:30
6.
'Hehe! Sly and slippery knave'
3:12
7.
'Tarnhelm and ring, here they are'
3:13
8.
'Be welcome, Siegfried!'
10:11
9.
'You lie there too, mighty dragon'
10:43
11.
'Waken, Wala! Wala! Awake!'
2:20
12.
'Strong is your call'
12:16
13.
'You unwise one, learn what I will'
4:31
14.
'I see that Siegfried's near'
1:08
1.
'My woodbird fluttered away'
0:35
2.
'Young man, hear me'
6:18
3.
'Child, if you knew who I am'
5:44
4.
'With his spear in splinters'
7:19
5.
'Here in the sunlight'
4:00
6.
'Come, my sword!'
11:49
7.
'Hail, bright sunlight!'
4:30
8.
'Siegfried! Siegfried! Glorious hero!'
8:30
9.
'And there is Grane, my sacred horse'
9:11
10.
'Oh! I cared always'
15:01
Solo: Alberto Remedios tenor - Siegfried
Solo: Gregory Dempsey tenor - Mime
Solo: Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wanderer
Solo: Derek Hammond-Stroud baritone - Alberich
Solo: Clifford Grant bass - Fafner
Solo: Anne Collins contralto - Erda
Solo: Rita Hunter soprano - Brünnhilde
Solo: Romantic Chamber Group of London soprano - Voice of the Woodbird
Orchestra: Sadlers Wells Opera Orchestra
Solo: Barry Tuckwell solo horn
Conductor: Reginald Goodall