Wagner / Neill / Zweden - Siegfried - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Hallé completes it's highly regarded Ring cycle, with the live recording of it's acclaimed Bridgewater Hall performance under Sir Mark Elder. InchRoaring jubilation and radiant beauty from Elder and the Halle... Elder is a superb Wagnerian, acutely conscious of the complex relationship between tempo and pace, and immaculate in his judgment both of the span of each act and the ebb and flow of detail within it. Thrilling climaxes alternated with moments of astonishing beauty and quiet, almost exquisite terror.Inch (The Guardian on the Halle's performance of Siegfried) The third element of Wagner's Ring cycle contains humor, drama and a concluding ecstasy as the eponymous hero meets his heroine Brünnhilde, setting up the explosive finale of the concluding opera. With enormous orchestral forces and dramatic use of leitmotiv themes the music portrays the full gamut of emotions and provides a perfect vehicle to display the heights of the Hallé's powers under Elder. This production was recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, capturing all the drama of the acclaimed live performance.

Siegfried, WWV 86C, is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen, by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle. Siegfried tells the coming-of-age story of the hero that Wagner has promised us at the end of Die Walküre. The most light-hearted of the four dramas, it contains genuine moments of humour. Siegfried, the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, has been raised by the whining dwarf, Mime. However, impatient and inquisitive, he sets off on an adventure like no other. His journey through the opera traces his journey into adulthood, culminating in the meeting with our heroine, Brünnhilde, and the realization that he must cast off his reckless youth and become a man. The present is a stage recording from the Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm made March, 1987.

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