Opera - The Valkyrie
RICHARD WAGNER
(1813-1883)
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
Scene 1
2.
'The storm drove me here'
5:36
Siegmund, Sieglinde
3.
'This house and this wife'
4:11
Sieglinde, Siegmund
4.
'Evil fortune's never far from me'
4:17
Siegmund, Sieglinde
Scene 2
5.
'There he lay, feeble and faint'
3:03
Sieglinde, Hunding, Siegmund
6.
'Through field and forest'
2:02
Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde
7.
'Friedmund no one could call me'
3:35
Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde
8.
'The Neidings raided again'
3:01
Siegmund
9.
'So the Norn who dealt you this fate'
4:50
Hunding, Sieglinde, Siegmund
10.
'I know a troublesome race'
6:13
Hunding
Scene 3
11.
'A sword was pledged by my father'
6:41
Siegmund
12.
'Are you awake?'
1:12
Sieglinde, Siegmund
13.
'My husband's kinsmen'
4:48
Sieglinde
14.
'Yes, loveliest bride'
1:37
Siegmund, Sieglinde
15.
'Winter storms have vanished' (Siegmund's Spring Song)
3:41
Siegmund
16.
'You are the Spring'
2:19
Sieglinde
17.
'Oh sweetest enchantment'
3:21
Siegmund, Sieglinde
18.
'The stream has shown my reflected face'
4:05
Sieglinde, Siegmund
19.
'Siegmund call me, and Siegmund am I'
1:33
Siegmund
20.
'Siegmund, the Wälsung, here you see!'
2:36
Siegmund, Sieglinde
1.
'Go bridle your horse, warrior maid!'
2:58
2.
'Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho!' (Brünnhilde's Battle Cry)
2:33
3.
'The usual storm, the usual strife!'
2:02
4.
'Pretend that you don't understand!'
1:37
5.
'Now it's come to pass!'
1:00
6.
'So this is the end of the gods and their glory'
3:36
7.
'You never learn what I would teach you'
6:00
8.
'What must I do?'
2:21
9.
'Hiaha! Hiaha! Hoyotoho!'
3:45
10.
'Fricka has won the fight'
5:27
11.
'When youth's delightful pleasures had waned'
2:33
12.
'She refused to reveal more about it'
2:45
13.
'There's more to tell'
2:25
14.
'Yet one can accomplish what I may not'
2:30
15.
'But the Wählsung, Siegmund'
1:18
16.
'Then Siegmund must fall in his fight?'
3:56
17.
'I give you my blessing, Nibelung son!'
1:38
18.
'No, have mercy'
3:43
1.
'So I obey his command'
4:24
2.
'Rest here for a while, stay by my side!'
3:05
4.
'Where are you, Siegmund?'
5:22
5.
'Siegmund! Look at me!' (Announcement of Death)
3:19
7.
'Then greet for me Walhall'
3:51
8.
'Woe! Woe! Sister and bride'
4:42
9.
'Two lives now lie in your power'
2:37
10.
'Charms of sleep are sent to still'
3:12
11.
'I hear your call'
2:09
12.
'Wehwalt! Wehwalt!'
5:55
1.
'Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho!' (Ride of the Valkyries)
9:00
2.
'Shield me and help'
1:25
3.
'Hear while I tell you'
2:38
4.
'Pray suffer no sorrow for me'
3:59
5.
'Fly him swiftly, away to the east!'
1:24
6.
'O radiant wonder!' (Parting Salute)
0:49
7.
'Stay, Brünnhild!'
1:07
8.
'Where is Brünnhild?'
1:39
9.
'Weak-spirited, womanish brood!'
2:59
10.
'Here I am, father'
2:47
11.
'No more will you ride from Walhall'
3:05
12.
'Did you not hear what I decreed?'
4:56
13.
'Was it so shameful?'
3:51
14.
'I know so little'
4:00
15.
'You, who this live into my heart revealed'
4:06
16.
'You indulged your love'
0:54
17.
'Unworthy of you this foolish maid'
3:14
18.
'You fathered a glorious race'
2:50
19.
'In long, deep sleep'
3:05
20.
'Farewell, my valiant, glorious child!' (Wotan's Farewell)
5:00
21.
'These eyes so warm and so bright'
7:48
22.
'Loge, hear! Come at my call!'
1:26
23.
Magic Fire Music
3:57
Solo: Alberto Remedios tenor - Siegmund
Solo: Clifford Grant bass - Hunding
Solo: Norman Bailey bass-baritone - Wotan
Solo: Margaret Curphey soprano - Sieglinde
Solo: Rita Hunter soprano - Brünnhilde
Solo: Ann Howard mezzo-soprano - Fricka
Choral: English National Opera Chorus
Orchestra: English National Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Reginald Goodall