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Wagner: Das Rheingold / Haitink, Morris, Lipovsek, Zednik


Release Date: 10/17/2006 
Label:  Emi Classics   Catalog #: 58699   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Richard Wagner
Performer:  Jadwiga Rappé,  Eva Johansson,  Andreas Schmidt,  Peter Seiffert,   ... 
Conductor:  Bernard Haitink
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Number of Discs: 2 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 2 Hours 28 Mins. 

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Das Rheingold starts the cycle remarkably successfully. Haitink’s grasp of both music and drama is remarkably certain and he secures playing of immediacy from his Bavarian forces. Generally, details are not overlooked within the work’s architecture The Prelude to scene 1 does not quite carry the sense of inevitability with it that others on disc do—Böhm or Karajan, for example—but its tonal weight is more apt than Boulez’s “lighter” reading. Precision also marks much of the Rheinmaidens’ singing in the opening scene, even if slightly more impetuousness would be welcome. As commented in 30:4, James Morris’s Wotan is committed. It is an oddity to have two different singers cast as Fricka, though both Read more Lipovšek and Meier have voices whose strengths match the overall emphatic range of the parts they sing. Rappé’s Erda—also found in Siegfried—projects an other-worldly presence, and Haage’s Mime continues to impress. Zednik’s Loge has plenty of character in the voice, as does Theo Adam’s Alberich. Tschammer and Rydl are imposing as Fasolt and Fafner, but the recording engineering helps their cause slightly. Eva Johansson’s Freia was steadier of tone at the time of recording than she can be these days. Smaller roles are generally excellently taken.

– Evan Dickerson, FANFARE [5/2007]
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Works on This Recording

1. Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
Performer:  Jadwiga Rappé (Alto), Eva Johansson (Soprano), Andreas Schmidt (Baritone),
Peter Seiffert (Tenor), Peter Haage (Tenor), James Morris (Bass Baritone),
Marjana Lipovsek (Mezzo Soprano), Silvia Herman (Soprano), Theo Adam (Baritone),
Hans Tschammer (Bass), Kurt Rydl (Bass), Julie Kaufmann (Soprano),
Heinz Zednik (Tenor), Susan Quittmeyer (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Bernard Haitink
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1854; Germany 
 Language: German 

Sound Samples

Das Rheingold: Prelude (Orchester)
Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle (Woglinde/Wellgunde/Floßhilde)
Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Hehe! Ihr Nicker!
Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Garstig glatter glitsch'riger Glimmer!
Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Lugt, Schwestern!
Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Bangt euch noch nicht? (Alberich/Woglinde/Floßhilde/Wellgunde)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: (Orchester)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Wotan! Gemahl! erwache!
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Vollendet das ewige Werk! (Fricka/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: So schirme sie jetzt (Fricka/Freia/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Sanft schloß Schlaf dein Aug (Fasolt/Wotan/Fafner)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Schweig' dein faules Schwatzen (Fasolt/Wotan/Fafner/Freia)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Zu mir, Freia! (Froh/Donner/Fafner/Fasolt)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Halt, du Wilder! (Wotan/Freia/Fricka)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Wie? welchen Handel hätt' ich geschlossen? (Loge/Wotan/Fricka/Froh/Donner/Fafner/Fasolt)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2, Immer ist Undank Loge's Lohn! (Loge/Wotan/Fasolt/Fafner/Fricka/Donner): Umsonst sucht' ich (Loge/Wotan/Fasolt/Fafner/Fricka/Donner/Froh)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Was ein Dieb stahl (Loge/Wotan/Fricka/Fafner)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Hör', Wotan, der Harrenden Wort! (Fafner/Wotan/Fasolt/Freia/Froh/Donner/Loge)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild? (Loge/Fricka/Donner/Froh)
Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Auf, Loge! hinab mit mir! (Wotan/Loge/Donner/Froh/Fricka)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Hehe! hehe! (Alberich/Mime)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Nibelheim hier (Loge/Mime/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Wer hälfe mir! (Mime/Loge/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Hierher! Dorthin! (Alberich)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Was wollt ihr hier?
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Habt Acht! Habt Acht!
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Riesenwurm winde sich ringelnd! (Alberich/Loge/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Luge der ger! (Alberich/Loge)
Das Rheingold, Scene 3: (Orchester)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Da, Vetter, sitze du fest! (Loge/Alberich/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Wohlan, die Niblungen rief ich mir nah' (Alberich/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Gesahlt hab' ich (Alberich/Loge/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Bin ich nun frei? (Alberich)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Lauschtest du seinem Liebesgruss? (Loge/Wotan/Froh/Donner)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Bring'st du gute Kunde? (Fricka/Loge/Donner/Froh/Fasolt)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Auf Riesenheims ragender Mark (Fasolt/Wotan/Fafner/Loge/Froh/Fricka/Donner)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Freia, die schöne (Fasolt/Loge/Fafner/Wotan/Freia/Fricka/Froh/Donner)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Weiche, Wotan, weiche! (Erda/Wotan/Fricka)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Hört, ihr Riesen! (Donner/Freia)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Zu mir, Freia! (Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Halt, du Gieriger! (Fasolt/Fafner/Loge/Wotan)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Was gelicht, Wotan (Loge/Wotan/Fricka)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Schwüles Gedünst schwebt in der Luft (Donner)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Zur Burg führt die Brücke (Froh)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge (Wotan/Fricka)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Ihrem Ende eilen sie zu (Loge)
Das Rheingold, Scene 4: Rheingold! Rheingold! (Woglinde/Wellgunde/Floßhilde/Wotan/Loge)

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