Wagner: Scenes From the Ring [Import]

Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
• Audio CD (July 3, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Decca Import
• ASIN: B00002458I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Vorspiel·Weia! Waga! Woge, Du Welle!

2. Einzug Der Gotter In Walhall

3. WinterstÜRme Wichen Dem Wonnemond

4. WalkÜRenritt

5. Wotans Abschied Und Feuerzauber

6. Schmiedelied

7. Waldweben

8. Zu Neuen Taten, Teurer Helde Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt

9. Trauermarsch

10. BrÜNhildes SchlußGesang

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Moments Of Solti's Ring Recording, November 6, 2005

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Rudy Avila "Saint Seiya" (Lennox, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wagner: Scenes From the Ring (Audio CD)

Prior to conductor George Solti's celebrated studio recording of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, the operas were individually recorded and they were usually live recordings. Solti's late 1960's recordings of Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung were exceptional in that they featured the greatest Wagnerian singers of their time and the studio effects included anvils, horns and other slights of ears. In addition, there was no annoying live sounds like coughing or applause when compared to Karl Bohm's live Bayreuth Ring operas. On here we find the highlights from each of the operas, grand albeit short scenes. From Das Rheingold we are treated to the opening scene in which the lusty dwaf Albrecht (sung in Nietzschean nastiness by Neidlinger) proposes sex with the beautiful and nubile Rhinemaidens. He is scorned and for revenge and a desire for power steals the Rhinegold. The trouble begins. Odin was supposed to give away his beautiful goddess wife Freja to the Giants who built Valhalla, the glorious celestial palace one gets to by crossing a rainbow. "Entrance of the Gods" into Valhalla is a spectacular scene. James King as Odin, king of the Norse gods, is a revelation. His mighty voice is appropriately majestic, arrogant and even god-like. In Die Walkure, his "Farewell Aria" is supremely executed. In Die Walkure, we are first introduced to his Viking daughter Brunhilde, sung by the greatest interpretor of the role Swedish opera goddess Birgit Nilsson, whose superhuman voice raises above the orchestra in thrilling displays of power. The Brunhilde in Die Walkure is armored and defiant but by Gotterdammerung, when she has been stripped of her immortality and become the wife of Siegfried (sung by Wolfgang Windgassen) she is a woman who is willing to sacrifice all, even herself, for love. She is softened and made noble and heroic by love. Her climatic Immolation Scene is electrifying. Birgit Nilsson is at her best as Brunhilde. Wolfgang Windgassen made a career of singing all the lead Wagner heroes and his Siegfried is heroic, romantic and stentorian. Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic deliver the most powerful musical force ever. At such a cheap price, this recording is a must buy for fans of Wagner.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars grandiosa seleccion, December 13, 2004

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felipe "classic" (Chile) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wagner: Scenes From the Ring (Audio CD)

Esta seleccion que se denomino Greatest Scenes es un CD soberbio, como lo indica Amazon es importado, yo lo adquiri en Barcelona hace tres años. Y cada vez que lo escucho disfruto de una seleccion musical que me deja sin aire, es soberbio, una sintesis perfecta de una obra de mas de 14 horas, una presentacion epica de la gran tetralogia wagneriana (de lo que solo Wagner y Lucas saben).
Solti se esmera y en forma titanica grabo las cuatro operas junto a la Filarmonica de Viena que se desempeñan de manera soberbia, a lo anterior debemos añadir a unos solistas de excepcion.
George London, Birgit Nilsson, Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Regine Crespin, Gottlob Frick y otros cantantes sobresalientes, hacen de este CD doble un logro musical grandioso.
La seleccion incluye la entrada de los dioses, la cabalgata de las walkirias, descenso por el Rihn, murmullo del bosque, inmolacion de Brunilda y mucho mas, es una seleccion de casi tres horas.
Disfruten de este Cd que es una seleccion espectacular de una obra sin comparacion.