Offer, Wagner: Das Rheingold

Matthias Goerne (Wotan), Kim Begley (Loge), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Deborah Humble (Erda), Peter Sidhom (Alberich), Anna Samuil (Freia), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner), David Cangelosi (Mime), Charles Reid (Froh), Oleksandr Pushniak (Donner), Eri Nakamura (Woglinde), Aurhelia...

Sidhom's dark-leather tone and malevolent characterisation make an impressive Alberich, fellow Briton Kim Begley is a smooth, sardonic Loge, ideally lyrical in his narration...Van Zweden conducts... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: 8660374-75
Label: Naxos
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

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Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), David Cangelosi (tenor), Deborah Humble (mezzo-soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone), Anna Samuil (soprano), Eri Nakamura (soprano), Kwangchul Youn (bass), Aurhelia Varak (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Milling (bass), Hermine Haselböck (mezzo-soprano), Charles Reid (tenor), Peter Sidhom (baritone), Oleksandr Pushniak (baritone), Kim Begley (tenor)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden
Recorded: 22 and 24 January 2015
Recording Venue: Hong Kong Cultrual Centre Concert Hall, Hong Kong

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Scene 1: Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle! (Rhinemaidens)

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Scene 1: Hehe! Ihr Nicker! (Alberich, Rhinemaidens)

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Scene 1: Garstig glatter glitschiger Glimmer! (Alberich, Rhinemaidens)

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Scene 1: Lugt, Schwestern! Die Weckerin lacht in den Grund (Rhinemaidens, Alberich)

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Scene 1: Nur wer der Minne Macht entsagt (Woglinde, her sisters, Alberich)

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Scene 1: Der Welt Erbe gewann' ich zu eigen durch dich? (Alberich, Rhinemaidens)

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Scene 1: Haltet den Rauber! (Flosshilde, her sisters)

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Scene 2: Einleitung

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Scene 2: Wotan! Gemahl! Erwache! (Fricka, Wotan)

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Scene 2: So schirme sie jetzt (Fricka, Freia, Wotan)

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Scene 2: Sanft schloss Schlaf dein Aug'! (Fasolt, Wotan)

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Scene 2: Was sagst du? Ha! Sinnst du Verrath? (Fasolt, Fafner, Wotan)

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Scene 2: Du da, folge uns fort! (Fafner, Freia, Froh, Donner, Fasolt, Wotan, Fricka)

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Scene 2: Endlich Loge! Eiltest du so (Wotan, Loge, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt)

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Scene 2: Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn! (Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner, Fricka)

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Scene 2: Ein Runenzauber zwingt das Gold zum Reif (Loge, Donner, Wotan, Froh, Fricka, Fafner)

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Scene 2: Hor', Wotan, der Harrenden Wort! (Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia)

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Scene 2: Schwester! Bruder! Rettet! (Freia, Froh, Donner, Loge, Fricka)

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Scene 2: Wotan, Gemahl, unsel'ger Mann (Fricka, Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh)

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Scene 3: Verwandlungsmusik

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Scene 3: Hehe! Hehe! Hieher! Hieher! Tuckischer Zwerg! (Alberich, Mime)

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Scene 3: Schau, du Schelm! (Alberich, Mime)

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Scene 3: Nibelheim hier: durch bleiche Nebel (Loge, Mime, Wotan)

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Scene 3: Nehmt euch in acht! Alberich naht (Mime, Wotan, Alberich)

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Scene 3: Die in linder Lufte Weh'n da oben ihr lebt (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)

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Scene 3: Ohe! Ohe! Schreckliche Schlange (Loge, Wotan, Alberich)

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Scene 3: Dort, die Krote, greife sie rasch! (Loge, Alberich)

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Scene 4: Da, Vetter, sitze du fest! (Loge, Alberich, Wotan)

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Scene 4: Wohlan, die Nibelungen rief ich mir nah' (Alberich, Wotan)

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Scene 4: Gezahlt hab' ich; nun lasst mich zieh'n! (Alberich, Loge, Wotan)

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Scene 4: Ist er gelost? (Loge, Wotan, Alberich)

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Scene 4: Lauschtest du seinem Liebesgruss? (Loge, Wotan, Froh, Donner, Fricka)

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Scene 4: Lieblichste Schwester, susseste Lust! (Fricka, Fasolt, Wotan)

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Scene 4: Gepflanzt sind die Pfahle nach Pfandes Mass (Fafner, Wotan, Loge, Froh, Fricka, Donner, Fasolt, Freia)

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Scene 4: Weiche, Wotan, weiche! Flieh' des Ringes Fluch! (Erda, Wotan)

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Scene 4: Soll ich sorgen und furchten (Wotan, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Freia)

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Scene 4: Halt, du Gieriger! Gonne mir auch was! (Fasolt, Fafner, Loge)

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Scene 4: Nun blinzle nach Freias Blick! (Fafner, Wotan, Loge, Fricka, Donner)

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Scene 4: Heda! Heda! Hedo! Zu mir, du Geduft! (Donner)

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Scene 4: Bruder, hieher! Weise der Brucke den Weg! (Donner, Froh)

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Scene 4: Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge (Wotan)

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Scene 4: So gruss' ich die Burg (Wotan, Fricka, Loge)

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Scene 4: Rheingold! Rheingold! Reines Gold! (Rhinemaidens, Wotan, Loge)

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First performed as a cycle of four operas in 1876, Wagner’s visionary Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is one of the greatest works of art.

Centred around a ring which offers its bearer ultimate power and the attempts of various people to acquire it, the Ring cycle explores the relationship between love and earthly power and the themes of yearning and loss, all within a setting of medieval legend. The Prologue Das Rheingold depicts the theft and subsequent surrender of the ring forged from the Rhinemaidens’ gold by the Nibelung dwarf Alberich.

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Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden

Reviews

January 2016

Sidhom's dark-leather tone and malevolent characterisation make an impressive Alberich, fellow Briton Kim Begley is a smooth, sardonic Loge, ideally lyrical in his narration...Van Zweden conducts with an easy sweep that would carry one along in the opera house...This knocks spots off rival budget versions...and many more expensive.

November 2015

the Hong Kong Philharmonic sound fully up for the occasion and have the stamina for this demanding piece…Matthias Goerne sings Wotan beautifully with much baritonal sophistication, predictable care for words and able negotiation of trickier moments…Peter Sidhom enjoys himself greatly playing Alberich as an out-and-out 'baddie'…[the scene in Nibelheim] feels as if David Cangelosi's Mime, both funny and moving with any kind of braying excess, has acted as a catalyst to turn the occasion into a more full-on dramatic performance

March 2016

Matthias Goerne’s Wotan offers lyric richness and grandeur, as well as a keen comprehension and articulation of the text down to the tiniest detail. He is superbly matched by the masterly Alberich of Peter Sidhom, who combines a suitably outlandish range of colour with a wonderfully imaginative use of words. David Cangelosi is a striking Mime, Charles Reid a lithe, vocally bold Froh. Altogether, a hugely positive start to what promises to be an exceptional Ring recording.

21st October 2015

The orchestral textures have a spaciousness and transparency, and an unforced sense of architectural shaping and dramatic flow...But the real surprise here is Matthias Goerne’s performance as Wotan. His handling of the text is as exemplary as anyone would expect from such a seasoned lieder singer, but it’s the power and gravitas that Goerne brings to the role that are so startling.

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