Wagner by Arrangement: Volume Three, Operatic Highlights

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Catalogue No: TOCC0673
EAN/UPC: 5060113446732
Release Date: 2022-11-04
Composer: Ben Woodward, Richard Wagner
Artists: Ben Woodward, Regents Opera Ensemble

Necessity being the mother of invention, the English conductor Ben Woodward has arranged the full-symphonic textures of some of Wagner’s operas for eighteen-part chamber orchestra to bring them within range of the forces available to Regents Opera in London – arrangements which should, indeed, put them with the reach of smaller companies everywhere. This new ‘room-sized Wagner’ enhances the sense of scale of the originals with a striking degree of clarity.

Catharine Woodward, soprano: Brünnhilde (Tracks 1,3,4), Isolde (Track 5)
Keel Watson, bass-baritone: Wotan (Track 1)
Philip Modinos, tenor: Siegfried (Tracks 2,3)
Holden Madagame, tenor: Mime (Track 2)
Edwin Kaye, bass: Hagen (Track 4)
Regents Opera Ensemble
Ben Woodward, conductor

Listen To This Recording:

    Die Walküre (1854–56)

  1. Act II, Vorspiel: ‘Nun zäume dein Ross…. Hojotoho’
  2. Act III, Scene 1: Siegfried’s Forging Song: ‘Nothung nennt sich das neidliche Schwert‘
  3. Siegfried (1856–71)

  4. Act III, Conclusion: ‘Ewig war ich’
  5. Götterdämmerung (1871–74)

  6. Act III, Immolation Scene: ‘Starke scheite schichtet mir dort’
  7. Tristan und Isolde (1857–59)

  8. Act III, Isoldes Liebestod: ‘Mild und leise’

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