Wagner: Die Walküre St. Petersburg Mariinsky Orchestra & Valery Gergiev

• 1 Scene 1: Prelude 04:04
• 2 Scene 1: Wes Herd dies auch sei (Siegmund, Sieglinde) 09:08
• 3 Scene 1: Einen Unseligen labtest du (Siegmund, Sieglinde) 03:33
• 4 Scene 2: Mud am Herd fand ich den Mann (Sieglinde, Hunding, Siegmund) 05:17
• 5 Scene 2: Friedmund darf ich nicht heissen (Siegmund, Hunding, Sieglinde) 06:36
• 6 Scene 2: Die so leidig Los dir beschied (Hunding, Sieglinde, Siegmunde) 04:13
• 7 Scene 2: Ich weiss ein wildes Geschlecht (Hunding) 05:33
• 8 Scene 3: Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater (Siegmund) 06:33
• 9 Scene 3: Schlafst du, Gast? (Sieglinde, Siegmund) 07:03
• 10 Scene 3: Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond (Siegmund) 03:05
• 11 Scene 3: Du bist der Lenz (Sieglinde) 02:15
• 12 Scene 3: O susseste Wonne! Seligstes Weib! (Siegmund, Sieglinde) 06:37
• 13 Scene 3: Siegmund heiss ich und Siegmund bin ich! (Siegmund, Sieglinde) 03:51
• 14 Scene 1: Prelude - Nun zaume dein Ross (Wotan) 02:38
• 15 Scene 1: Hojotoho! hojotoho! Hei a ha! (Brunnhilde) 02:20
• 16 Scene 1: Der alte Sturm, die alte Muh! (Wotan, Fricka) 03:48
• 17 Scene 1: Heut' hast du's erlebt! (Wotan, Fricka) 04:07
• 18 Scene 1: Nichts lerntest du, wollt' ich dich lehren (Wotan, Fricka) 06:09
• 19 Scene 1: Was verlangst du? (Wotan, Fricka) 02:31
• 20 Scene 1: Deiner ew'gen Gattin heilige Ehre (Fricka, Wotan) 03:34
• 21 Scene 2: Schlimm, furcht' ich, schloss der Streit (Brunnhilde, Wotan) 10:16
• 22 Scene 2: Ein andres ist's (Wotan, Brunnhilde) 05:45
• 23 Scene 2: So nimmst du von Siegmund den Sieg? (Brunnhilde, Wotan) 03:34
• 24 Scene 2: So nimm meinen Segen, Niblungen-Sohn! (Wotan, Brunnhilde) 05:42
• 25 Scene 2: Schwer wiegt mir der Waffen Wucht (Brunnhilde) 02:28
• 26 Scene 3: Raste nun hier, gonne dir Ruh! (Siegmund, Sieglinde) 08:56
• 27 Scene 3: Wo bist du, Siegmund? (Sieglinde, Siegmund) 03:49
• 28 Scene 4: Siegmund! Sieh auf mich! (Brunnhilde, Siegmund) 10:55
• 29 Scene 4: Du sahest der Walkure sehrenden Blick (Brunnhilde, Siegmund) 04:27
• 30 Scene 4: So jung und schön erschimmerst du mir (Siegmund, Brunnhilde) 04:58
• 31 Scene 5: Zauberfest bezahmt ein Schlaf (Siegmund) 03:01
• 32 Scene 5: Der dort mich ruft (Siegmund, Sieglinde, Hunding, Brunnhilde, Wotan) 03:36
• 33 Scene 5: Zu Ross! dass ich dich rette! (Brunnhilde, Wotan) 03:31
• 34 Scene 1: Prelude - Hojotoho! Hojotoho! (The Valkyries), Ride of the Valkyries 02:26
• 35 Scene 1: Zu Ortlindes Stute stell' deinen Hengst (The Valkyries) 05:37
• 36 Scene 1: Schutzt mich und helft in hochster Not! (Brunnhilde, The Valkyries) 03:39
• 37 Scene 1: Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich (Sieglinde, Brunnhilde, The Valkyries, Wotan) 06:53
• 38 Scene 2: Wo ist Brunnhild', wo die Verbrecherin? (Wotan, The Valkyries) 04:58
• 39 Scene 2: Hier bin ich, Vater: gebiete die Strafe! (Brunnhilde, Wotan, The Valkyries) 08:50
• 40 Scene 3: War es so schmahlich, was ich verbrach (Brunnhilde, Wotan) 10:11
• 41 Scene 3: So tatest du, was so gern zu tun ich begehrt (Wotan, Brunnhilde) 08:47
• 42 Nicht streb, o Maid, den Mut mir zu storen! (Wotan, Brunnhilde) 04:53
• 43 Scene 3: Leb' wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind! (Wotan), Wotan's Farewell 04:44
• 44 Scene 3: Der Augen leuchtendes Paar (Wotan) 07:34
• 45 Scene 3: Loge, hor'! Lausche hieher! (Wotan) 04:11
• Total Runtime 03:56:36

Info for Wagner: Die Walküre

In February 2013 the Mariinsky label launches its most ambitious project to date, releasing the first title in a cycle of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Valery Gergiev. Recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of the Mariinsky Concert Hall, the cycle features a sensational cast, helping create the most finely crafted Ring cycle of modern times.

The first release features Die Walküre, starring Anja Kampe, Jonas Kaufmann, René Pape, Nina Stemme, Mikhail Petrenko and Ekaterina Gubanova. Recorded during sessions and performances in 2011 and 2012, it will be released internationally in February 2013 in a 4-album set and as a high resolution download. This will be followed in September 2013 by the Das Rheingold (chronologically the first opera in the cycle, although originally envisaged as a prelude by Wagner) with Siegfried and Götterdämmerung completing the cycle in 2014.

Der Ring des Nibelungen was the pinnacle of Richard Wagner’s long and turbulent career and without question one of the greatest achievements in opera. Wagner wanted to create the perfect synthesis of music and drama and assumed total creative control of the project which was to take him 26 years to complete, with frequent interruptions. He introduced numerous innovations, not least the sheer scale of the project – typically a complete performance will last in excess of 15 hours, spread over four evening. No other opera matches the scale or ambition of the Ring. The Mariinsky Theatre has close connections with Wagner and his music. The composer conducted at the theatre and was even offered the post of Music Director. It is also believed to be the first place where any of the music from the Ring was performed. Since Valery Gergiev became Music Director of the Mariinsky, Wagner’s music has once again become a core part of the theatre’s repertoire, both in St Petersburg and on tour. The Mariinsky label’s recording of Wagner’s final opera Parsifal starring René Pape, Gary Lehmann and Violetta Urmana, was released in 2010 to international acclaim.

“This show belongs to Jonas Kaufmann, whose bronzed timbre is deeply satisfying whether in heroic or intimate utterance. His legato is immaculate … Kaufmann sings as thrillingly as any Siegmund since Jon Vickers … the recorded sound is excellent.” (International Record Review)

“[Stemme] is rock solid throughout her range, with gleaming top notes without any great wobble or sense of blasting the speakers...[Kaufmann's] baritonal timbre and almost smoky half tones make his Siegmund intensely masculine...The orchestral playing is excellent, especially lower woodwinds in solo passages, while the brass is superb...It is to be fervently hoped that Gergiev’s luxury casting stretches to the whole cycle.” (Mark Pullinger, Opera Britannia)

“The result, in superb sound, is revelatory...[Kampe] gives Sieglinde both lyrical beauty and narrative power, well matched by Jonas Kaufmann's Siegmund...[Pape] turns out to be the finest [Wotan] I've heard lately...Most exciting of all is Nina Stemme's Brunnhilde, larger-voiced and steelier than one might expect, yet feminine, spirited and vulnerable... So far this recalls, and must rank with, the great Rings of the 1960s. More, please.” (BBC Music Magazine)

“Stemme has the measure of her role in spades...Act 1 goes well from all three participants...Gubanova is a lively, probing Fricka and the Valkyries a well-saddled bunch. The still decidely un-Western sound of Gergiev and his orchestra is a dramatic advantage to this opera's tense underlay.” (Gramophone Magazine)

Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde)
René Pape (Wotan)
Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund)
Anja Kampe (Sieglinde)
Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka)
Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding)
Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Gerhilde)
Irina Vasilieva (Ortlinde)
Natalia Evstafieva (Waltraute)
Lyudmila Kanunnikova (Schwertleite)
Tatiana Kravtsova (Helmwige)
Ekaterina Sergeeva (Siegrune)
Anna Kiknadze (Grimgerde)
Elena Vitman (Rossweisse)
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor

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