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Wagner 200

Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim with the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walk眉re

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service

Wagner: Die Walk眉re (concert performance, sung in German)

Wotan ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Siegmund ..... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Sieglinde ..... Anja Kampe (soprano)
Hunding ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Br眉nnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Gerhilde ..... Sonja M眉hleck (soprano)
Ortlinde ..... Carola H枚hn (soprano)
Waltraute ..... Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ..... Ana茂k Morel (contralto)
Helmwige ..... Susan Foster (soprano)
Siegrune ..... Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ..... Simone Schr枚der (mezzo-soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Daniel Barenboim's Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with part two, Die Walk眉re, and more mythical and psychological forces at large. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Br眉nnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter who we meet for the first time, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Die Walk眉re is considered perhaps the most accessible of the Ring cycle operas, and ends with the powerful Magic Fire Music.