Recordings
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SIEGFRIED
HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTED BY JAAP VAN ZWEDEN
Released November 2017 | Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is one of the most remarkable achievements in all music, and Siegfried, the third in the cycle, contains some of the greatest moments in Wagner’s entire output. Wagner conceived Siegfried as a heroic ‘man of the future’, and his fantastical tale is one in which the human dramas of treachery and violent struggles for power become magnified in a world of gods, dragons and magic.
DIE WALKÜRE
HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTED BY JAAP VAN ZWEDEN
Released November 2016 | Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is one of the supreme works in the history of music. Part II of the tetralogy, Die Walküre, centers on the young lovers Siegmund (Stuart Skelton) and Sieglinde (Heidi Melton), whose relationship angers Fricka (Michelle DeYoung), goddess of marriage, and on the disobedience of the Valkyrie Brünnhilde (Petra Lang) who is sent to carry out Fricka’s wishes. Performed by an all-star international cast, the work was acclaimed in The Guardian as ‘thrillingly vivid…"
EINE LEBENSMESSE
RADIO FILHARMONISCH ORKEST
CONDUCTED BY MARKUS STENZ
Released September 2016 | At the Netherlands Music Festival in 1912, Jan van Gilse met with great recognition for his imposing work. Daniël de Lange wrote that the work had originated at a time "during which pieces like 'Wandrers Sturmlied' by Richard Strauss became more popular and Wagner's influence had reached its absolute zenith. In a worthy manner van Gilse's work follows the current musical trend. The orchestration is masterful."
DIE WALKÜRE Act I
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL
CONDUCTED BY DONALD RUNNICLES
Released December 2014 | This live performance features Stuart Skelton and Heidi Melton as Wagner's star-crossed lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, in Act I of Die Walküre, the second opera in his epic Ring Cycle.
WAGNERIAN ARIAS & EXCERPTS
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL BORDEAUX AQUITAINE
CONDUCTED BY PAUL DANIEL
Released June 2014 | This live performance features young dramatic soprano Heidi Melton in Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung, "Dich, teure Halle" from Tannhäuser, and Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, alongside orchestral works from this trio of operas.
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
CONDUCTED BY FABIO LUISI
Released March 2013 | Götterdämmerung is the culmination of one of the greatest masterpieces in all of Western civilization, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Ring, unveiled over the course of the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years. Combining state-of-the-art technology with traditional storytelling, it brings Wagner’s vision into the 21st century. The four-part epic comes full circle with its cataclysmic finale, in which one woman’s sacrifice redeems the world.