The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Edward Gardner - WAGNER: The Ring Without Words [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 4872607
Barcode: 00028948726073
Release Date: 20 Jan 2027
Genre: Classical

Four-time Gramophone Award winner, Edward Gardner, reunites with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra for Wagner: The Ring Without Words, a 70-minute orchestral work, compiled by the legendary conductor Lorin Maazel, distilling Wagner's entire operatic RING CYCLE into a purely orchestral piece.

This album combines some of the cycle's most memorable orchestral passages into a continuous symphonic work, without adding a single note of music not written by Wagner.

Tracklist
1. Das Rheingold: Thus, We Begin in the "Greenish Twilight" of the Rhine
2. Das Rheingold: Float up to the Home of the Gods (Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla)
3. Das Rheingold: Fall Amongst Hammering Dwarfs "Smithying" Away
4. Das Rheingold: Ride Donner's Thunderbolt, Crawl with the Thirst-Crazed Siegmund to the Haven…
5. Die Walküre: In the Sound Code, We "See" His Loving Gaze
6. Die Walküre: Their Flight
7. Die Walküre: Wotan's Rage
8. Die Walküre: The Cavalcade of Brünnhilde's Sisters (Ride of the Valkyries)
9. Die Walküre: Wotan's Farewell to His Favorite Daughter (Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music)
10. Siegfried: Mime's Fright
11. Siegfried: Siegfried's Forging of the Magic Sword
12. Siegfried: His Wanderings Through the Forest (Forest Murmurs)
13. Siegfried: His Slaying of the Dragon
14. Siegfried: The Dragon's Lament
15. Götterdämmerung: Day Breaking 'Round Siegfried's and Brünnhilde's Passion
16. Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey)
17. Götterdämmerung: Hagen's Call to His Clan
18. Götterdämmerung: Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens
19. Götterdämmerung: His Death and the Funeral Music (Sigfried's Death and Funeral Music)
20. Götterdämmerung: Immolation (Immolation Scene)