Wagner: The Valkyrie

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Valkyrie: There's something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, fulltoned, often ideally articulated reading. The ENO management's faith in him was handsomely repaid in his... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CHAN3038(4)
Label: Chandos
Series: Opera in English
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act I: Prelude

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera

Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act I Scene 1

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Alberto Remedios, Margaret Curphey

The storm drove me here (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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This house and this wife (Sieglinde, Siegmund)

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Evil fortune's never far from me (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act I Scene 2

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Margaret Curphey, Clifford Grant, Alberto Remedios, Rita Hunter, Ann Howard

There he lay, feeble and faint (Sieglinde, Hunding, Seigmund)

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Through field and forest (Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde)

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Friedmund no one could call me (Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde)

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The Neidings raided again (Siegmund)

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So the Norn who dealt you this fate (Hunding, Sieglinde, Siegmund)

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I know a troublesome race (Hunding)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act I Scene 3

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Alberto Remedios, Margaret Curphey

A sword was pledged by my father (Siegmund)

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Are you awake? (Sieglinde, Siegmund)

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My husband's kinsmen (Sieglinde)

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Yes, loveliest bride (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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Winter storms have vanished' (Siegmund's Spring Song) (Siegmund)

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You are the Spring (Sieglinde)

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Oh sweetest enchantment (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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The stream has shown my reflected face (Sieglinde, Siegmund)

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Siegmund call me, and Siegmund am I (Siegmund)

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Siegmund, the Wälsung, here you see! (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act II Scene 1

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Norman Bailey, Rita Hunter, Ann Howard

Go bridle your horse, warrior maid! (Wotan)

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Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho! (Brünnhilde's Battle Cry) (Brünnhilde)

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The usual storm, the usual strife! (Wotan, Fricka)

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Pretend that you don't understand! (Fricka, Wotan)

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Now it's come to pass! (Wotan)

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So this is the end of the gods and their glory (Fricka)

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You never learn what I would teach you (Wotan, Fricka)

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What must I do? (Wotan, Fricka)

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Hiaha! Hiaha! Hoyotoho! (Brünnhilde, Fricka, Wotan)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act II Scene 2

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Rita Hunter, Norman Bailey

Fricka has won the fight (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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When youth's delightful pleasures had waned (Wotan)

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She refused to reveal more about it (Wotan, Brünnhilde)

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There's more to tell (Wotan)

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Yet one can accomplish what I may not (Wotan)

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But the Wählsung, Siegmund (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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Then Siegmund must fall in his fight? (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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I give you my blessing, Nibelung son! (Wotan, Brünnhilde)

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No, have mercy (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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So I obey his command (Brünnhilde)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act II Scene 3

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Alberto Remedios, Margaret Curphey

Rest here for a while, stay by my side! (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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Away! Away! (Sieglinde, Siegmund)

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Where are you, Siegmund? (Sieglinde, Siegmund)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act II Scene 4

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Rita Hunter, Alberto Remedios

Siegmund! Look at me! (Announcement of Death) (Brünnhilde, Siegmund)

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And if I come (Siegmund, Brünnhilde)

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Then greet for me Walhall (Siegmund, Brünnhilde)

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Woe! Woe! Sister and bride (Siegmund, Brünnhilde)

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Two lives now lie in your power (Siegmund, Brünnhilde)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act II Scene 5

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Alberto Remedios, Clifford Grant, Margaret Curphey, Rita Hunter, Norman Bailey

Charms of sleep are sent to still (Siegmund)

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I hear your call (Siegmund, Sieglinde)

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Wehwalt! Wehwalt! (Hunding, Siegmund, Sieglinde, Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act III Scene 1

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Katie Clarke, Rita Hunter, Margaret Curphey, Norman Bailey, Anne Conoley, Elizabeth Connell, Helen Attfield, Anne Evans, Sarah Walker

Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho! (Ride of the Valkyries) (Gerhilde, Helmwige, Waltraute, Schwerleite, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Rossweisse)

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Shield me and help (Brünnhilde, The Valkryies)

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Hear while I tell you (Brünnhilde, The Valkryies)

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Pray suffer no sorrow for me (Sieglinde, Brünnhilde, The Valkryies)

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Fly him swiftly, away to the east! (Brünnhilde)

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O radiant wonder! (Parting Salute) (Sieglinde)

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Stay, Brünnhild! (Wotan, The Valkryies, Brünnhilde)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act III Scene 2

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Rita Hunter, Norman Bailey, Katie Clarke, Anne Conoley, Elizabeth Connell, Helen Attfield, Anne Evans

Where is Brünnhild? (Wotan, The Valkryies)

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Weak-spirited, womanish brood! (Wotan)

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Here I am, father (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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No more will you ride from Walhall (Wotan, The Valkryies, Brünnhilde)

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Did you not hear what I decreed? (Wotan, The Valkryies)

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Wagner: The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, Act III Scene 3

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Sir Reginald Goodall, English National Opera, Rita Hunter, Norman Bailey

Was it so shameful? (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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I know so little (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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You, who this live into my heart revealed (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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You indulged your love (Wotan)

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Unworthy of you this foolish maid (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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You fathered a glorious race (Brünnhilde, Wotan)

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In long, deep sleep (Wotan, Brünnhilde)

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Farewell, my valiant, glorious child! (Wotan's Farewell) (Wotan)

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These eyes so warm and so bright (Wotan)

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Loge, hear! Come at my call! (Wotan)

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Magic Fire Music (Wotan)

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2010

Valkyrie: There's something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, fulltoned, often ideally articulated reading. The ENO management's faith in him was handsomely repaid in his ability to convey his lifetime vision to is regular cast and eventually to his audiences. On paper, tempos may look unacceptably slow; in practice there are very few places – perhaps Siegmund's Spring song and Sieglinde's reply – where they seem too tardy.
That's largely due to his ability to find the Hauptstimme for every paragraph of the music, indeed for a whole act and, perhaps even more, to his ability to persuade players and singers alike to sustain a long line. Listeners familiar only with the Solti cycle will hardly recognise this as the same work.
By 1976 all his singers were entirely inside their respective roles and so able to project a feeling of familiarity with their music that's evident in every bar. Like all the most satisfying sets of the Ring, it benefits enormously from being heard live in a theatre acoustic, and here no compromises have to be made, so superb are producer John Mordler's and his team's skills.
You seem to be seated in centre stalls imbibing the performance. Rita Hunter bestrides the role of Brünnhilde in a confident manner achieved in relatively modern times only by Birgit Nilsson, whose bright tone and effortless top Hunter's so much resembles. She's also a thoughtful, very human interpreter of the role, keen with her words and investing them with the right import.
By her side Bailey confirms that he's as excellent a Wotan as any since Hans Hotter. His reading of the taxing part is virtually tireless and his interpretation combines authority with fatherly concern. Remedios's Siegmund remains one of the most sweetly sung and appealing on disc. If Curphey isn't quite in his class vocally, she offers a deeply felt and sympathetic Sieglinde. Ann Howard is, rightly, a termagant of a Fricka, with a touch of asperity in her tone. Clifford Grant is a sonorous, towering Hunding. The Valkyries, comprising many of the most promising female singers of the day (among them Elizabeth Connell and Anne Evans), acquit themselves very well. All the cast benefit from Andrew Porter's carefully wrought, very singable translation.
Overall, a hearty welcome back to a great recording.

This very fine Wagner recording returns to the catalogue – a highly persuasive account in its considered approach. The singing, in an effective English translation is excellent

2010 edition

the glory of the ENO performance lies not just in Goodall's spacious direction but in the magnificent Wotan of Norman Bailey, noble in the broadest span but very human in his illumination of detail. Rita Hunter sings nobly too...the total dramatic conpulsion is irresistable

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