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Wagner: Das Rheingold

John Tomlinson (Wotan), Linda Finnie (Fricka), Graham Clark (Loge), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Gunter von Kannen (Alberich), Eva Johansson (Freia), Kurt Schreibmayer (Froh), Bodo Brinkmann (Donner), Birgitta Svendén (Erda), Matthias Hölle (Fasolt), Philip Kang (Fafner), Hilde Leidland (Woglinde), Annette...

These are enthralling performances. Tomlinson's volatile Wotan is the most potent reading here. He manages to sing every word with insistent meaning and forceful declamation while maintaining... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 4509911852
Label: Teldec
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Work length2:28:56

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Annette Küttenbaum (mezzo-soprano), Birgitta Svendén (mezzo-soprano), Graham Clark (tenor), John Tomlinson (bass), Eva Johansson (soprano), Günter von Kannen (soprano), Birgitta Svendén (soprano), Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano), Bodo Brinkmann (tenor), Helmut Pampuch (tenor), Hilde Leidland (soprano), Günter von Kannen (bass), Graham Clark (bass), Jane Turner (mezzo-soprano), John Tomlinson (tenor), Kurt Schreibmayer (bass), Linda Finnie (soprano), Matthias Hölle (bass), Philip Kang (baritone), Philip Kang (tenor)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival
Daniel Barenboim

Prelude

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"Weia! Waga! Woge du Welle!" [Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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"He he! Ihr Nicker!" [Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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"Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!" [Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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"Wie in den Gliedern" [Alberich]

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"Lugt, Schestern!" [Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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"Was ist's, ihr Glatten" [Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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"Der Welt Erbe gewann' zu eigen" [Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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"Wotan, Gemahl! Erwache!" [Wotan, Fricka]

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"Um des Gatten Treue besorgt" [Wotan, Fricka, Freia]

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"Sanft schloss Schlaf besorgt" [Wotan, Donner, Froh, Fricka, Freia, Fasolt]

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"Endlich Loge!" [Wotan, Donner, Froh, Loge, Fricka, Fafner, Fasolt]

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"Immer ist Undank Loges" [Loge]

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"Dir's zu melden" [Wotan, Donner, Froh, Loge, Fricka, Fasolt, Fafner]

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"Hör, Wotan, der Harrenden" [Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia, Froh, Donner]

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"Uber Stock und Stein" [Loge]

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"Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild?" [Donner, Froh, Loge, Fricka]

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"Auf, loge" [Wotan, Donner, Froh, Loge, Fricka]

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"Hehe! hehe! hieher" [Alberich, Mime]

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"Nibelheim hier" [Wotan, Loge, Mime]

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"Wer halfe mir?" [Loge, Mime]

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"Nehmt euch in acht!" [Wotan, Alberich, Mime]

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"Zittre und zage" [Alberich]

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"Was wollt ihr hier?" [Wotan, Loge, Alberich]

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"Die in linder Lütle Wehn" [Alberich]

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"Wen doch fasste nicht Wunder" [Loge, Alberich]

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"Riesen-Wurn winde sich" [Wotan, Loge, Alberich]

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"Krumm und grau" [Wotan, Loge, Alberich]

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"Da, Vetter sitze du fest!" [Wotan, Loge, Alberich]

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"Gezahlt hab'ich" [Wotan, Loge, Alberich]

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"Ein golder Ring" [Wotan, Alberich]

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"Ist er geöst?" [Wotan, Loge, Alberich]

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"Lauschtest du seinem Liebesgruss?" [Wotan, Donner, Froh, Loge, Freia]

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"Lieblichste Schwester" [Wotan, Fricka, Freia]

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"So sind wir denn fertig" [Wotan, Loge, Fasolt, Fafner]

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"Weiche, Wotan, weiche!" [Wotan, Erda]

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"Hört, ihr Riesen!" [Wotan, Donner, Freia]

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"Halt, du Gieriger!" [Fasolt, Fafner]

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"Was gleicht Wotan" [Wotan, Loge, Fricka]

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"Schwüles Gedünst" [Donner, Froh]

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"Abenddlich strahlt der Sonne Auge" [Wotan, Fricka]

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"Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu" [Loge]

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"Rheingold, Rheingold!" [Wotan, Loge, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde]

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Recorded in 1991

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Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

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2010

These are enthralling performances. Tomlinson's volatile Wotan is the most potent reading here. He manages to sing every word with insistent meaning and forceful declamation while maintaining a firm legato. His German is so idiomatic that he might have been speaking the language his whole life and he brings breadth and distinction of phrase to his solos at the close of both operas. Anne Evans as a single, important advantage over other recent Brünnhildes in that her voice is wholly free from wobble and she never makes an ugly sound. Hers is a light, girlish, honest portrayal, sung with unfailing musicality if not with the ultimate insights. Linda Finnie is an articulate, sharp-edged Fricka, and Graham Clark a sparky, incisive Loge. Nadine Secunde's impassioned Sieglinde is matched by the vital, exciting Siegmund of Poul Elming, and Matthias Hölle as both Hunding and Fasolt is another of those black basses of which Germany seems to have an inexhaustible supply. The whole is magnificently conducted by Barenboim, a more expansive Wagnerian than Böhm. By 1991 he had the full measure of its many facets, bringing immense authority and power to building its huge climaxes, yet finding all the lightness of touch for the mercurial and/or diaphanous aspects of the score. He has the inestimable advantage of a Bayreuth orchestra at the peak of its form, surpassing – and this says much – even the Metropolitan orchestra for Levine. Similar qualities inform his interpretation of Die Walküre. Barenboim has now learnt how to match the epic stature of Wagner's mature works, how to pace them with an overview of the whole, and there's an incandescent, metaphysical feeling of a Furtwänglerian kind in is treatment of such passages as Wotan's anger and the Valkyrie ride. The orchestra is superb. It's backed by a recording of startling presence and depth, amply capturing the Bayreuth acoustic.

2010 edition

what is particularly surprising is the dramatic tension of the performance. Even with slow speeds, the sense of flow carries the ear on...It is very satisfying, too, to have on disc John Tomlinson's magnificent performance as Wotan, Graham Clark as an electrifying, dominant Loge and Linda Finnie a thoughtful, intense Fricka.

Wagner: Das Rheingold

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