tomekkobialka | DIE WALKÜRE by Richard Wagner (Audio + Full Score) @tomekkobialka | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
pf: Georg Solti cond/ Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Year/Date of Composition: 1854-6

Siegmund: James King
Sieglinde: Régine Crespin
Wotan: Hans Hotter
Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson
Hunding: Gottlob Frick
Fricka: Christa Ludwig
Gerhilde: Vera Schlosser
Ortlinde: Helga Dernesch
Waltraute: Brigitte Fassbaender
Schwertleite: Helen Watts
Helmwige: Berit Lindholm
Siegrune: Vera Little
Grimgerde: Marilyn Tyler
Roßweiße: Claudia Hellmann

SYNOPSIS: wagneroperas.com/indexwalkure1.html
LIBRETTO: murashev.com/opera/Die_Walk%C3%BCre_libretto_English_German

0:00 - ACT ONE, SCENE ONE (Storm prelude)
4:44 - (Sieglinde sees Siegmund)
16:50 - SCENE TWO (Return of Hunding, Sieglinde's husband; Hunding challenges Siegmund to a duel in the morning)
38:05 -SCENE THREE
40:35 - (Siegmund: "Wälse! Wälse! Where is thy sword?")
41:10 - (Siegmund spots a sword hilt in the ash tree, lit by flames from the fireplace)
44:42 - (Sieglinde shows Siegmund the sword)
51:02 - Walsung Twins’ Love Duet
1:01:56 - (Sieglinde: "Siegmund, so name I thee!")
1:02:33 - (Siegmund proclaims love as his highest need)
1:03:30 - (Siegmund removes the sword, Nothung, from the tree)

1:05:50 - ACT TWO, SCENE ONE (A mountain pass)
1:08:04 - (Wotan tells Brunnhilde to go and defend the Walsung twins against Hunding.)
1:09:15 - (Brunnhilde warns her father of Fricka's approach...)
1:10:53 - (Fricka approaches, condemning the twins for their adultery and incest, as well as Wotan for his adultery with Erda and the Walsungs' mother)
1:21:12 - (Fricka: "Take back the sword")
1:24:11 - (Fricka: "Shield not the Walsungs!")
1:26:05 - (Brunnhilde appears)
1:30:03 - SCENE TWO (Wotan tells Brunnhilde about the Ring, how he paid for Valhalla with it, and how he planned for Siegmund to take the Ring from Fafner so that Alberich doesn't regain it.)
1:47:13 - (Wotan: "What I love most must I surrender")
1:48:17 - (Wotan: "One thing awaits me; the downfall.")
1:51:31 - (Wotan: "Then take thou my blessing, Nibelung son!")
1:52:15 - (Wotan: "Siegmund shalt thou vanquish")
1:58:24 - SCENE THREE (Siegmund and Sieglinde approach the mountain pass)
2:05:08 - (Sieglinde previsions Hunding's revenge)
2:08:54 - SCENE FOUR (Brunnhilde tells Siegmund he must die and go to Valhalla, whilst Sieglinde will remain on earth)
2:19:36 - (Siegmund: "To them I follow thee not!")
2:21:46 - (Brunnhilde: "[Wotan] takes away the spell from your sword.")
2:26:19 - (Brunnhilde is persuaded to defend Siegmund after he threatens to take Sieglinde's life)
2:28:49 - SCENE FIVE
2:31:38 - (Siegmund rushes off to fight Hunding, Sieglinde dreams about the abduction from her family)
2:33:22 - (Hunding calls for Siegmund)
2:34:36 - (Wotan shatters Nothung, letting Hunding kill Siegmund)

2:38:34 - ACT THREE, SCENE ONE (Ride of the Valkyries)
2:45:28 - (Siegrune spots Brunnhilde, the Valkyries see she is carrying Sieglinde on her horse)
2:46:56 - (Brunnhilde asks for the Valkyries to help Sieglinde)
2:51:40 - (Brunnhilde to Sieglinde: "You bear a Walsung's life!")
2:53:35 - (Brunnhilde tells Sieglinde to go east near Fafner's cave ["dragon" motif at 2:53:11]. Handing over the sword pieces, she names the child Siegfried and proclaims him as the one who will wield Nothung.)
2:56:30 - SCENE TWO (Arrival of Wotan: "Where is Brunnhilde?")
3:04:59 - (As punishment, Wotan will take away Brunnhilde's immortality and leave her alone, asleep on top of the mountain, for any man to find)
3:09:11 - SCENE THREE (Brunnhilde tries to explain herself; she saw what Wotan did not - the twins' love)
3:29:35 - (Brunnhilde begs Wotan to surround her with a ring of fire [3:30:59], so that only the bravest hero could find her)
3:31:40 - "Leb wohl" (Wotan bids farewell to Brunnhilde)
3:43:57 - Magic Fire Music (Wogan summons Loge, who draws a ring of fire around Brunnhilde...)