Janowski: Wagner – Das Rheingold (FLAC)

Composer: Richard Wagner
Performer: Tomasz Konieczny, Antonio Yang, Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Christian Elsner, Iris Vermillion, Ricarda Merbeth, Maria Radner, Günther Groissböck, Timo Riihonen, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Andreas Conrad, Julia Borchert, Katharina Kammerloher, Kismara Pessatti
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5186406
Release: 2013
Size: 642 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Das Rheingold
CD 01
01. Scene 1: Vorspiel
02. Scene 1: Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle! (Rhinemaidens, Alberich)
03. Scene 1: Garstig glatter glitschiger Glimmer! (Alberich, Rhinemaidens)
04. Scene 1: Wallala! Wallala! Lalaleia, leialalei! (Rhinemaidens, Alberich)
05. Scene 1: Lugt, Schwestern! Die Weckerin lacht in den Grund (Rhinemaidens, Alberich)
06. Scene 1: Der Welt Erbe gewann’ ich zu eigen durch dich? (Alberich, Rhinemaidens)
07. Scene 2: Einleitung
08. Scene 2: Wotan! Gemahl! Erwache! (Fricka, Wotan, Freia)
09. Scene 2: Nur Wonne schafft dir, was mich erschreckt? (Wotan, Fricka, Freia)
10. Scene 2: Sanft schloss Schlaf dein Aug’! (Fasolt, Fafner, Wotan, Freia)
11. Scene 2: Zu mir, Freia! Meide sie, Frecher! (Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt, Wotan, Freia, Fricka)
12. Scene 2: Endlich Loge! Eiltest du so (Wotan, Loge, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt)
13. Scene 2: Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn! (Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner)
14. Scene 2: Taugte wohl des goldnen Tandes (Fricka, Loge, Wotan, Donner, Froh, Fafner)
15. Scene 2: Hor’, Wotan, der Harrenden Wort! (Fafner, Fasolt, Wotan, Freia, Froh, Donner, Loge)
16. Scene 2: Jetzt fand ich’s: Hort, was euch fehlt! (Loge, Fricka, Wotan, Donner, Froh)
17. Scene 2: Verwandlungsmusik
18. Scene 3: Hehe! Hehe! Hieher! Hieher! Tuckischer Zwerg! (Alberich, Mime, Wotan, Loge)

CD 02
01. Scene 3: Wer halfe mir? (Mime, Loge, Wotan)
02. Scene 3: Mit eurem Gefrage (Mime, Loge, Wotan, Alberich)
03. Scene 3: Was wollt ihr hier? (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)
04. Scene 3: Habt acht! Habt acht! (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)
05. Scene 3: Riesen-Wurm winde sich ringelnd! (Alberich, Loge, Wotan)
06. Scene 3: Verwandlungsmusik
07. Scene 4: Da, Vetter, sitze du fest! (Loge, Alberich, Wotan)
08. Scene 4: Wohlan, die Nibelungen rief ich mir nah’ (Loge, Alberich, Wotan)
09. Scene 4: Zu deiner Losung musst du ihn lassen (Loge, Alberich, Wotan)
10. Scene 4: Bin ich nun frei, “Alberich’s curse” (Alberich)
11. Scene 4: Lauschtest du seinem Liebesgruss? (Loge, Wotan, Froh, Donner, Fricka)
12. Scene 4: Halt! Nicht sie beruhrt! (Fasolt, Fafner, Wotan, Loge, Froh)
13. Scene 4: Nicht so leicht und locker gefugt! (Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Donner)
14. Scene 4: Freia, die Schöne, schau’ ich nicht mehr (Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Freia, Fricka, Froh, Donner)
15. Scene 4: Weiche, Wotan, weiche! Flieh’ des Ringes Fluch! (Erda, Wotan, Fricka, Froh)
16. Scene 4: Hort, ihr Riesen! (Donner, Freia, Wotan, Fafner, Fasolt, Loge)
17. Scene 4: Furchtbar nun erfind’ ich des Fluches Kraft! (Wotan, Loge, Fricka)
18. Scene 4: Schwules Gedunst schwebt in der Luft (Donner)
19. Scene 4: Zur Burg fuhrt die Brucke (Froh, Wotan, Fricka, Loge)
20. Scene 4: Rheingold! Rheingold! Reines Gold! (Rhinemaidens, Wotan, Loge)

Following on from their recent success at this year’s 2013 BBC Music Magazine Awards where they won the Award for Technical Excellence for their recording of Parsifal, PentaTone is delighted to bring you the next installment, Das Rheingold.


This is the 7th release in PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition and the 1st one in the Wagner Year. Das Rheingold is the first release of the cycle: Der Ring des Nibelungen. The other 3 “Ring recordings” will follow in the course of 2013.


Continuing with their critically acclaimed Wagner series, the attached images show previous releases which have received unprecedented critical acclaim.


The recordings have various been awarded The Sunday Times CD of the Week, The Opera Choice of the month in BBC Music Magazine, the Recording of the month also in BBC Music Magazine and several Gramophone Editor’s Choices.


PentaTone’s Wagner Edition is an unprecedented project and we aim at supporting it with a lot of attention in the media throughout the year. In the Wagner year there will be a lot of attention for Wagner through articles in the media and performances of his opera’s. We expect therefore the interest for the PentaTone Edition (especially as a collector’s item) to increase substantially.

Recorded live on November 22, 2012, in a concert setting, this performance of Das Rheingold continues Marek Janowski’s exceptional hybrid SACD series of Richard Wagner’s music dramas for PentaTone. Featuring powerful singers and the thrilling playing of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, this is the first opera in the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the excitement that’s needed to kick off the cycle is quickly generated in the opening Prelude. The cast’s standouts are baritone Tomasz Konieczny as Wotan, mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion as Fricka, tenor Christian Elsner as Loge, and baritone Jochen Schmeckenbecher as Alberich, and even though the rest of the singers vary in intonation and vocal quality, the characterizations of unruly and argumentative Norse gods, giants, and dwarves give the performers considerable latitude for uneven or even unlovely singing. For many audiophiles, the vibrant sonorities and crisp details of the Berlin orchestra are the major attraction, and Janowski elicits extraordinary playing that is brilliantly captured in the mutichannel recording. This opening part of Der Ring des Nibelungen promises great things to come in the rest of the operas, and PentaTone’s entire Wagner Edition is a fitting celebration of the bicentennial of the composer’s birth.