1 He kisses her gently on the eyelids.
2 After her initial shock.
3 Heard in isolation, Sieglinde's music.
4 But we are getting ahead.
5 Needless to say, Brünnhilde, on her return.
6 in his earliest drafts for Siegfried's Death.
7 Before the curtain rises.
8 in June 1857 Wagner abandoned.
9 Mime then imagines himself.
10 In myths and folk legends.
11 Mime then tells Siegfried about Fafner.
12 If the music of Act I of The Valkyrie.
13 Mime is now faced with a dilemma.
14 Despite Mime's efforts.
15 It's not easy to convey.
16 Acts I and II of Siegfried.
17 On this second day of the Ring.
18 Loge enjoys one special advantage.
19 But all is not sweetness.
20 A gently undulating theme appears.
21 As a young radical, he argued.
22 Determined to obtain the ring.
23 For the first time, in the moonlight.
24 Hunding retires for the evening.
25 In the first Act of The Valkyrie, a solitary cello.
26 In the Ring's preliminary evening.
27 As with the Ring, the subjects of Greek tragedy.
28 in a great symphonic climax.
29 Hagen hails him from the shore.
30 Hagen seems to be remarkably.
31 Gunther lacks self-confidence.
32 Gutrune's music is heart-rending.
33 One of the marvels.
34 Götterdämmerung ('Twilight of the Gods').
35 From this point until the end of the act.
36 Erda descends again.
37 Hagen cuts the horn in two.
38 In 1871, when Wagner was working.
39 Night has fallen.
40 He had loosened her helm.
41 Before the curtain rises on the final act.
42 Act II has taken the drama.
43 It's difficult to imagine.
44 Baffled by these developments.
45 Brünnhilde concludes bitterly.
46 Siegfried appears suddenly.
47 Brünnhilde can't believe.
48 Sieglinde has left the scene.
49 The Ride of the Valkyries that opens Act III.
50 Sieglinde, in her delirium.
51 Wagner the magician begins casting his spells.
52 The baying of Hunding's dogs is heard.
53 Ungrateful adolescents.
54 When the curtain rises.
55 Siegfried reappears from the cave.
56 Wagner handles the scene.
57 Siegfried muses on what his father.
58 The curtain rises on Alberich.
59 Throughout this marvellous work.
60 The orchestral richness of Siegfried.
61 We are a long way.
62 There is a striking contrast between.
63 The first Act of The Valkyrie is unsurpassed.
64 When Loge first appears.
65 Wotan, like many leaders.
66 Woglinde's melody is a lullaby.
67 The second reason.
68 What happens next is a black comedy.
69 The hut in which Siegmund has sought refuge.
70 Under this spell.
71 With the return of Freia.
72 Then, in one of the most vitriolic passages.
73 The myths and legends of the north.
74 The refrain recurs each time.
75 Wagner's orchestration is nowhere more varied.
76 Wagner puts many chilling passages.
77 Siegfried greets Gunther.
78 Then there is Hagen.
79 Towards the end of Siegfried's Rhine journey.
80 Siegfried disappears from view.
81 Das Rheingold, Scene 4: "Willig glaub' ich dem Wunder"
82 Das Rheingold, Zweite Sz. . ene: Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild?
83 Siegfried, Act I: "Verfluchtes Licht"
84 Siegfried, Act I: "Mein Vater bist du nicht"
85 Siegfried, Act I: "Nun tobst du wieder wie toll"
86 Siegfried, Act I: "Glühender Schauer schüttelt die Glieder"
87 Götterdämmerung / Prologue: "O heilige Götter! Hehre Geschlechter!"
88 Siegfried, Act III: "Wie des Blutes Ströme sich zünden"
89 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Blühenden Lebens labendes Blut"
90 Götterdämmerung, Act II: "Muss sein Tod sie betrüben, verhehlt sei ihr die Tat"
91 Die Walküre, Act III: "Der dich zwingt, wird dir's entziehn!"
92 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: "Nacht und Nebel, niemand gleich!"
93 Die Walküre, Act I: "Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell"
94 Die Walküre, Act I: "Siegmund, den Wälsung, siehst du, Weib!"
95 Götterdämmerung, Act II: "Wo Scharfes mich schneidet, schneide du mich"
96 Siegfried, Act II: "Aber wie sah meine Mutter wohl aus?" (Waldweben)
97 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Brünnhilde, bring' ich dir!"
98 Die Walküre, Act III: "Hier bin ich, Vater"
99 Das Rheingold, Scene 4: "Bin ich nun frei?"
100 Götterdämmerung, Act III: "In Leid zu dem Wipfel lauscht' ich hinauf"
101 Siegfried, Act II: "Wohin schleichst du"
102 Das Rheingold, Scene 4: "Rheingold! Rheingold! Reines Gold!"
103 Die Walküre, Act II: "Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!"
104 Siegfried, Act III: "Ewig war ich"
105 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Was leckt so wütend"
106 Die Walküre, Act I: "Du bist der Lenz"
107 Die Walküre, Act III: "Der Augen leuchtendes Paar"
108 Die Walküre, Act II: "Doch Brünnhilde! Weh der Verbrecherin!"
109 Siegfried, Act III: "Dir Unweisen ruf' ich ins Ohr"
110 Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Vorspiel - "Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle!"
111 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Ein gemächlicher Schlag"
112 Die Walküre, Act III: "Den hehrsten Helden der Welt"
113 Götterdämmerung, Act II: "Schlugen wir Tiere, was schaffen wir dann?"
114 in his adult life, Wagner came to revere J.S. Bach.
115 While Brünnhilde, on her mountain t, Op. ..
116 There is something Shakespearian.
117 When the excitement has died down.
118 Siegfried has been hunting.
119 When they have gone.
120 Then Brünnhilde steps forward.
121 The potion does its obliterating work.
122 When Siegfried reaches the summit.
123 The music that Wagner introduces.
124 To modern sensibilities.
125 The Ring of the Nibelung is the largest.
126 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: "So weit Leben und Luft"
127 That was Loge's account.
128 There are numerous Beethovenian touches.
129 Das Rheingold / Scene 2: Absteig nach Nibelheim (Descent into Nibelheim) - Edit
130 This has its roots…
131 Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": II. Molto vivace - Edit
132 It is often said.
133 Götterdämmerung / Prologue: Einleitung
134 Let's consider one example in Das Rheingold.
135 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: "Höhnst du uns? Ha, wie unrecht!"
136 Götterdämmerung, Act I: Gunther's Motive
137 Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Orchesterzwischenspiel
138 Götterdämmerung, Act I: Gutrune's Motive
139 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Valhalla Motive
140 Götterdämmerung, Act I: Hagen's Motive
141 Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Loge's Motive
142 Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Tarnhelm Motive
143 Götterdämmerung, Act II: Orchestervorspiel
144 Die Walküre, Act I: Orchestervorspiel
145 Götterdämmerung, Act III: Orchestervorspiel
146 Die Walküre, Act I: Motives of Siegmund & Sieglinde
147 Götterdämmerung, Act III: Finale
148 Die Walküre, Act II: Vorspiel
149 Die Walküre, Act II: Motive of Wotan's Frustration
150 Die Walküre / Dritter Aufzug: Magic Fire Music - Edit
151 Siegfried / Erster Aufzug: Vorspiel - Edit
152 Siegfried, Act III: Vorspiel
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