Edition: Album

Genre: Classical

Composer: Richard Wagner

Conductor: Reginald Goodall

Label: Chandos

Number of Discs: 5

Duration: 310 minutes

Track Listing:

Disc 1
1: What light shines down there?
2: Wotan made holy laws and treaties
3: That mighty hall the giants have raised
4: Now the god will sieze the spear that was shattered
5: Dawn music - The deeds of glory
6: Ah, but to prove you love me
7: Love, I leave you alone
8: So by your daring I am fired
9: O heavensly rulers!
10: Siegfried's Rhine Journey
11: Now hear, Hagen
12: What woman should I wed...?
13: At Neidhohle the Nibelung gold was guarded
14: You mock me, wicked Hagen!
15: Merrily seeking adventures and fame
16: Which is Gibich's son?
17: I welcome you, my friend
18: That treasure I quite forgot
19: Welcome, O guest, to Gibich's house!

Disc 2
1: With your brother I promised to serve
2: I fear not the flames
3: Flourishing life's refreshing blood
4: Now on your way
5: I sit here and wait
6: Sounds I once knew so well
7: You've come to me?
8: Fear and dread I read in your features!
9: Hear me with care, and I will tell you!
10: He sits there, speaks no word
11: These tales of evil fancies
12: Upon your hand, the ring
13: Go home to the sacred clan of the gods!
14:
15: Brunnhild! Your husband comes
16: The night draws on
17: Now nothing can save me

Disc 3
1: Prelude
2: Sleep you, Hagen, my son?
3: The might of the gods
4: That ring shall be Hagen's
5: Hoiho! Hagen! Fast asleep?
6: Yet my Siegfried was with Brunnhild?
7: I can see a sail in the distance
8: Hoiho! Hoihohoho! (Hagen summons the vassals)
9: Come to my call, and arm yourselves!
10: Glad times have come
11: Welcome, Gunther!
12: I greet you, noble friend
13: A ring I saw upon your hand
14: Ha! - Siegfried stole it
15: Hear in Walhall, mighty immortals!
16: Would you defile your name so lightly?
17: Shining steel! Holiest weapon!
18: Gunther, look to your wife there
19: Dark, unholy powers lie here around me!
20: Have trust in me, offended wife!
21: Can no weapon's point then pierce him?
22: Deceived I am - and deceiver!
23: He betrayed you
24: Since this blow must be dealt her

Disc 4
1: Prelude
2: Fair sunlight, shine on us in splendour
3: Fair sunlight, send to us the hero
4: A globin led me astray
5: Siegfried, if we find your bear
6: Why shoull I let them laugh and jeer?
7: Siegfired!... Evil lies in that ring
8: Siegfried!... Give heed to our words
9: Come sisters! Flee from this madman!
10: Hoiho!
11: You drove the game away from us
12: Drink, Gunther, drink
13: Mime was a hideous dwarf (Siegfried's Narration)
14: Now you must hear what happened next
15: Ring and Tarnhelm - both I had found
16: In grief I watched the branches above

Disc 5
1: Brunnhilde! Holiest bride!
2: Siegfried's Funeral March
3: Was this his horn?
4: Ah, if Siegfried were back!
5: Cast not the blame on me
6: Peace with your cries of useless lament!
7: Poor creature, peace!
8: Sturdy branches, building his pyre
9: The sun in radiance shines from his eyes
10: O you, you guardians
11: My heritage I claim from the hero
12: Fly home, you ravens!
13: Grane, my horse!
14: Give back the ring!