Wagner by Arrangement: Volume Three, Operatic Highlights
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:
- Act II, Vorspiel: ‘Nun zäume dein Ross…. Hojotoho’
- Act III, Scene 1: Siegfried’s Forging Song: ‘Nothung nennt sich das neidliche Schwert‘
- Act III, Conclusion: ‘Ewig war ich’
- Act III, Immolation Scene: ‘Starke scheite schichtet mir dort’
- Act III, Isoldes Liebestod: ‘Mild und leise’
Die Walküre (1854–56)
Siegfried (1856–71)
Götterdämmerung (1871–74)
Tristan und Isolde (1857–59)
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