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Wagner: Das Rheingold

Samuel Youn (Alberich), Iain Paterson (Wotan), Susan Bickley (Fricka), Emma Bell (Freia), Reinhard Hagen (Fasolt), Clive Bayley (Fafner), David Stout (Donner), David Butt Philip (Froh), Will Hartmann (Loge), Nicky Spence (Mime) & Susanne Resmark (Erda)

The Halle, Sir Mark Elder

The Hallé’s strings don’t have the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s lustre in Jaap van Zweden Naxos version, and the recording isn’t as vivid; but with the glowing brass transition to the heights, the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
Catalogue No: CDHLD7549
Label: Hallé
Series: Elder Wagner Series
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Record Review

2nd June 2018

Recording of the Week
Presto Editor's Choice

June 2018

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

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Susan Bickley, Emma Bell, David Stout, Nicky Spence, Leah-Marian Jones, Iain Paterson, David Butt Philip, Susanne Resmark, Madeleine Shaw, Samuel Youn, Reinhard Hagen, Will Hartmann, Sarah Tynan, Clive Bayley
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder

Prelude

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"Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle"

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"Hehe! ihr Nicker, wie seid ihr niedlich, neidliches Volk!"

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"Garstig glatter glitsch‘riger Glimmer!"

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"Wie in den Gliedern brünstige Gluth"

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:Lugt, Schwestern! die Weckerin lacht in den Grund"

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"Was ist‘s, ihr Glatten, das dort so glänzt und gleisst?"

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"Der Welt Erbe gewänn’ ich zu eigen durch dich?"

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"Wotan, Gemahl, erwache!"

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"Um des Gatten Treue besorgt"

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"Sanft schloss Schlaf dein Aug’"

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"Endlich Loge!"

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"Immer ist Undank Loge’s Lohn!"

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"Dir’s zu melden gelobt’ ich den Mädchen"

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"Was ein Dieb stahl, das stiehl’st du dem Dieb"

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"Hör’ Wotan, der Harrenden Wort!"

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"Über Stock und Stein zu Thal stapfen sie hin"

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"Wotan, Gemahl, unsel’ ger Mann!"

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Interlude

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"Hieher! Hieher! Tückischer Zwerg!"

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"Nibelheim hier"

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"Wer hälfe mir?"

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"Nehmt euch in Acht; Alberich naht"

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"Zitt’re und zage, gezähmtes Heer!"

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"Was wollt ihr hier?"

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"Die in linder Lüfte Weh’n da oben ihr lebt"

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"Wen doch fasste nicht Wunder"

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"Riesenwurm winde sich ringelnd!"

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"Krumm und grau krieche Kröte!"

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"Da, Vetter, sitze du fest!"

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"Gezahlt hab’ ich, nun lass’ mich zieh’n"

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"Nun denn! Alberich liess euch Alles"

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"Schlüpfe denn heim!"

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"Lauschtest du seinem Liebesgruss?"

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"Lieblichste Schwester süsseste Lust!"

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"So sind wir den fertig!"

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"Weiche, Wotan, weiche!"

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"Hört, ihr Riesen! Zurück, und harret!"

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"Halt, du Gieriger! Gönne mir auch was!"

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"Was gleicht, Wotan, wohl deinem Glücke?"

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"Schwüles Gedünst schwebt in der Luft"

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"Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge"

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"Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu"

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"Rheingold! Rheingold!"

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The latest in their highly regarded Wagner opera series, Hallé present the live recording of their acclaimed Bridgewater Hall performance.

Das Rheingold stands as the Vorabend or "Preliminary Evening" of Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, designed to be free of the traditional operatic concepts of aria and operatic chorus, and presented as the more epic Bühnenfestspiel or “stage festival play”, with the linking of dramatic elements through the use of musical motifs Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, capturing all the drama of the acclaimed live performance.

Produced by Hallé’s award winning engineer Steve Portnoi.

Reviews

July 2018

The Hallé’s strings don’t have the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s lustre in Jaap van Zweden Naxos version, and the recording isn’t as vivid; but with the glowing brass transition to the heights, the performance begins to gather momentum. Elder extracts some telling detail, especially from the more lyrical passages, but nevertheless much of its life stems from the excellent cast.

July 2018

An even greater triumph for the orchestra than their preceding Götterdämmerung and Walküre. Not only is there a special gloss on the sound (strings especially), a real Wagnerian klang, but the manner in which the solos (both sectional and individual) are now taken bears witness to the fluency of freshly acquired experience… The cast are strongly characterised and not always as you might expect; some fresh thinking here.

November 2018

The conductor is not in any rush in his approach to Wagner’s Vorabend…presenting a performance that runs to three CDs instead of the usual two. In fact, it’s often a daring approach to the score: determinedly leisurely, airily expansive and epic – in several of its varied senses…It’s also a supremely poetic reading…and it’s terrifically played by the Hallé.

June 2018

The waters of the Rhine flow crystal-clear in Elder’s leisurely prelude, setting the tone for an opening scene which captures the pre-Lapsarian quality of the Rhinemaidens’ world like few others...In a strongly characterised cast, Susan Bickley’s sympathetic Fricka and Clive Bayley’s snarky, lecherous Fafner stand out, whilst David Butt Philip had me wishing that Froh had rather more to do than knocking up a Rainbow Bridge in record time.

31st May 2018

Paterson’s Wotan is certainly authoritative enough, but needs a more assertive foil than Samuel Youn’s surprisingly lightweight Alberich...Clive Bayley’s fathomlessly dark Fafner, Susan Bickley’s humane Fricka and Nicky Spence’s instinctively theatrical Mime are all well worth preserving, as is the playing of the Hallé under Elder, and his unerring sense of the seamless musical architecture.

1st June 2018

Hero (or villain) of the three hours? I’d say Samuel Youn’s Alberich, a masterful, multicoloured performance spun in a gripping crescendo...Paterson’s Wotan isn’t far behind...Elder’s grip is total. He believes in every note of the score, shapes it carefully (no melodrama, no lurchings) and stirs the orchestra to a degree of magnificence rare even for the Hallé.

Wagner: Das Rheingold

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