Wagner / Swensen: Ring Odyssey – Joseph Swensen

Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Prelude – Song of the Rhine Maidens
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Alberich renounces the power of love, seizes the Rheingold & forges the Ring
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Valhalla, castle of the Gods
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Wotan & Loge descend into the Nibelheim
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Donner summons the thunderstorm to reveal Valhalla
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Prelude – Thunderstorm, Seglinde offers shelter to Siegmund
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Love Duet no.1 – The incestuous tryst of Seglinde & Siegmund
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Spring follows the Winter Storm; Siegmund acquires his name and Sword
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Act 2, Prelude – Wotan and Frika argue over Siegmund’s immorality
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Act 3, Ride of the Valkyries – Brünnhilde & the Valkyries retrieve the souls of the dead heroes
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Wotan’s grief over the disownment of Brünnhilde, he summons Loge to set afire to the mountain Brünnhilde is to rest
Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Wotan: “He who fears my spear, may not pass this fire” – Only the bravest hero will free Brünnhilde
Siegfried, WWV 86C: Act 2, Prelude – The Dragon’s cave
Siegfried, WWV 86C: “Du holdes Vöglein” – Siegfried and the woodbirds
Siegfried, WWV 86C: Siegfried battles Fafner the Dragon
Siegfried, WWV 86C: Act 3, Prelude
Siegfried, WWV 86C: “Ewig war ich” – Brünnhilde accepts Siegfried’s love and renounces the glory of the Gods
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Sunrise
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Love Duet no.2 – Siegfried’s flight into the wilderness
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Brünnhilde urges him to keep their love to mind
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Hagen summons the Gibichung vassals to war
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Act 3, Prelude – The Rhine Maidens urge Siegfried to return the Ring to the Rhine
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Siegfried is murdered by Hagen
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Siegfried dies and is carried away
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Brunnhilde takes the Ring from Siegfried’s hand and lights her funeral pyre
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Brunnhilde’s immolation & the world is consumed in flood and fire

Joseph Swensen, Christiane Libor, Michael Weinius, Derek Welton, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Salvatore Caputo, Choeur de l’Opera National de Bordeaux

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