Wagner: The Ring Without Words: CD
Release date: January 22, 2027
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
Das Rheingold: Thus, We Begin in the "Greenish Twilight" of the Rhine
Das Rheingold: Float up to the Home of the Gods (Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla)
Das Rheingold: Fall Amongst Hammering Dwarfs "Smithying" Away
Das Rheingold: Ride Donner's Thunderbolt, Crawl with the Thirst-Crazed Siegmund to the Haven…
Die Walküre: In the Sound Code, We "See" His Loving Gaze
Die Walküre: Their Flight
Die Walküre: Wotan's Rage
Die Walküre: The Cavalcade of Brünnhilde's Sisters (Ride of the Valkyries)
Die Walküre: Wotan's Farewell to His Favorite Daughter (Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music)
Siegfried: Mime's Fright
Siegfried: Siegfried's Forging of the Magic Sword
Siegfried: His Wanderings Through the Forest (Forest Murmurs)
Siegfried: His Slaying of the Dragon
Siegfried: The Dragon's Lament
Götterdämmerung: Day Breaking 'Round Siegfried's and Brünnhilde's Passion
Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey)
Götterdämmerung: Hagen's Call to His Clan
Götterdämmerung: Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens
Götterdämmerung: His Death and the Funeral Music (Sigfried's Death and Funeral Music)
Götterdämmerung: Immolation (Immolation Scene)
