Wagner - Die Walküre Opera Mariinsky

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RICHARD WAGNER

Die Walküre

Act One

Prelude and Scene One

4:04

Whoever's fireplace this may be

9:08

III

A luckless man you have been tending

3:33

Scene Two:

I found this man exhausted

5:17

I don't call myself 'Peaceful'

6:36

She who granted you a wretched fate

4:13

VII

I know of a savage family

5:33

Scene Three:

VIII

My father promised me a sword

6:33

Are you asleep, guest?

7:03

10.

Wintry storms have vanished before Maytime

3:05

11.

You are the spring

2:15

12.

XII

O sweetest bliss

6:37

13.

XIII

Siegmund I am called

3:51

Act Two

Prelude and Scene One:

14.

Now bridle your horse

2:38

15.

Hoyotoho!

2:20

16.

III

The old storm, the old trouble!

3:48

17.

Today - you have seen it happen

4:07

18.

You have never learned

6:09

19.

What are you asking for?

2:31

20.

VII

Your eternal wife's sacred honour

3:34

Scene Two:

21.

VIII

Badly, I'm afraid

10:16

22.

It is something else. Listen carefully

5:45

23.

Then will you deprive Siegmund of victory?

3:34

24.

Then take my blessing, Nibelung's son

5:42

Act Two (conclusion)

25.

XII

My load of armour weighs heavy on me

2:28

Scene Three:

26.

XIII

Do stop here, and take a rest

8:56

27.

XIV

Where are you, Siegmund?

3:49

Scene Four:

28.

Siegmund, look at me

10:55

29.

XVI

You have seen the Valkyrie's searing glance

4:27

30.

XVII

So young and fair and dazzling you look

4:58

Scene Five:

31.

XVIII

Deep as a speel sleep subdues

3:01

32.

XIX

He who calls me

3:36

33.

Quick, to my horse, and I will save you

3:31

Act Three

Prelude and Scene One:

34.

Hoyotoho, hoyotoho!

2:26

35.

Put your stallion next to Ortlinde's mare

5:37

36.

III

Give me protection and help in my great distress

3:39

37.

Do not plague yourself with worry about me

6:53

Scene Two:

38.

Where is Brünnhilde

4:58

39.

Here I am, father

8:50

Scene Three:

40.

VII

Was it so shameful

10:11

41.

VIII

So you did what I wanted so much to do

8:47

42.

Girl, do not try

4:53

43.

Farewell, you hold, wonderful child!

4:44

44.

That bright pair of eyes

7:34

45.

XII

Loge, listen! Harken here!

4:11

Total time: 235:56

Solo: Jonas Kaufmann - 'Siegmund'

Solo: Mikhail Petrenko - 'Hunding'

Solo: Rene Pape - 'Wotan'

Solo: Anja Kampe - 'Sieglinde'

Solo: Nina Stemme - 'Brünnhilde'

Solo: Ekaterina Gubanova - 'Fricka'

Solo: Zhanna Dombrovskaya - 'Gerhilde'

Solo: Irina Vasilieva - 'Ortlinde'

Solo: Natalia Evstafieva - 'Waltraute'

Solo: Lyudmila Kanunnikova - 'Schwertleite'

Solo: Tatiana Kravtsova - 'Helmwige'

Solo: Ekaterina Sergeeva - 'Siegrune'

Solo: Anna Kiknadze - 'Grimgerde'

Solo: Elena Vitman - 'Roßweiße'

Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Recorded 24-27 June 2011, 16-19 February & 10-12 April 2012

This is a Walküre for connoisseurs : a vitally engaged conductor leading singers with voices that are ideal for their parts and who understand their characters from extensive onstage experience but aren’t burdened with costumes, make-up or weird directorial conceits. This is going to be one hell of a Ring." Andrew Quint - Fanfare - July/August 2013

His [Gergiev] cast is exemplary. Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Kampe are the Wälsung twins, drawing you inexorably into the drama from the word go. Vocally Kaufmann is unmatched on record, a herocially dark tenor with ringing top notes. Kampe gives him a run for his money with full, rich tone and beautiful text work. Nina Stemme is a fine Brünnhilde, projecting the character’s emotional journey better than any of her current contemporaries René Pape is equally fine as Wotan, warmly resonant and powerfully inside the drama" ****½ Clive Paget - Limelightmagazine.com.au - 30 May 2013

**** - Good Rémy Franck - Pizzicato magazine - May 2013

"Gergiev’s conducting is rich in detail taut with drama and yet managing to remain spacious The cast is deluxe, caught at the height of its combined vocal prowess" **** Francis Muzzu - Opera Now magazine - May 2013

Music ***½ (Good/Very Good) Sound **** (Very Good) Bjørn Woll - Fono Forum magazine - May 2013

Opera Choice Performance ***** Recording ***** Most exciting of all is Nina Stemme’s Brünnhilde, larger-voiced and steelier than one might expect, yet feminin, spirited and vulnerable The Mariinsky Orchestra plays in vital form So far this recalls, and must rank with, the great Ringsof the 1960’s. More, please. Michael Scott Rohan - BBC Music magazine - May 2013

"A sterling reading of superior value Gergiev seems to have a natural affinity for Wagner’s music these readings from three separate concert performances spanning almost a year from 2011-12 are superior in all respects, a model of how surround Wagner should sound. Productions values remain high Not to be missed." ***** Steven Ritter - AudiophileAudition.com - 15 March 2013

"This is a most auspicious start to the Mariinsky Ring cycle on disc - and one that all Wagnerians will wish to investigate SA-CD.net

"In the first act at least, with Jonas Kaufmann as an incomparable Siegmund, Anja Kamp a profoundly moving Sieglinde and Gergiev pacing the performance to an overwhelming climax, the result is spellbinding. In fact, few performances on disc can match it for sheer excitement, or for Kaufmann’s blend of easy power, immaculate diction and lyric beauty Gergiev obtains transcendently beautiful playing from the Mariinsky Orchestra Andrew Clements - The Guardian - 01 February 2013

Recording of the Month MusicWeb-International.com

***** - Exceptional Also nicastro - Musica magazine - March 2013

This Mariinsky Die Walküre is the first release of the company’s Ring cycle. The recording is based on concert performances that Valery Gergiev conducted. Any misgivings I may have had regarding Gergiev as a Wagner conductor were blown away by his superb 2009 recording of Parsifal and then by a concert performance of it at the Barbican Hall in April 2012 The warmth and generosity of Stemme’s singing make her a particularly sympathetic Brünnhilde (and will do more so, probably, in the last two music-dramas) and she is thrilling in the Act Three plea-bargaining with Wotan. With a full-throttle ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ and some sumptuous orchestral playing, this is a Die Walküre to be reckoned with. Peter Reed - ClassicalSource.com - 18 February 2013

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