Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine journey & Siegfried's Funeral March (Century's rec.: Hans Knappertsbusch)

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Götterdämmerung / Orchestral Works
00:00 Götterdämmerung: Morgendämmerung und Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Vorspiel)
12:32 Götterdämmerung: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch
Recorded in 1959
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Götterdämmerung — Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine journey (Prologue)
A slow orchestral crescendo depicts dawn and sunrise over the Valkyries' rock. Siegfried bids farewell to Brünnhilde in order to hurry on 'to new deeds'. She hears his cheerful horn call from afar. The orchestra takes up the call and then follows the hero as he journeys up the Rhine against the current, plying the oars with all his might. The chorus of horns sounds the majestic Rhine motif before the full orchestra plays the song of the Rhine-maidens. But the unbridled merriment of the latter soon gives way to a lament for the stolen Rhine gold. The mood becomes sombre and the orchestra hints at the fateful events to come.

Götterdämmerung — Siegfried's funeral procession (Act Three)
During the transitional music before the last scene of the Ring cycle, the body of the murdered Siegfried is carried to the Gibichung hall. The orchestra broods mournfully before the Death motif is thundered out with remorseless solemnity by the timpani and brass. A melancholy theme played by the cor anglais recalls Siegmund and Sieglinde, the parents of Siegfried, then a trumpet sounds the Sword motif, but without its usual triumphant exuberance: hesitant at first, it seems to grow out of itself in a massive crescendo before being cut short by the merciless blows of the Death motif (a similar development occurs with the Siegfried theme, which returns only to die away in resignation). The complex structure of leitmotifs in this great orchestral movement gives the funeral procession a supra-personal dimension: with the death of Siegfried, the 'free hero' longed for by the guilt-embroiled gods is lost, the Old World's hope of redemption buried. The Brünnhilde motif returns forlornly before the music collapses into blackest darkness.

Hans Knappertsbusch (1888-1965) made all the recordings on this compilation during the last ten years of his life. His interpretations of Wagner are characterised by a majestic, reverent solemnity, and derive directly from the old school of the Bayreuth veteran Hans Richter, to whom the young Knappertsbusch was assistant conductor at the Bayreuth festivals between 1910 and 1912. The Vienna Philharmonic Knappertsbusch's orchestra on the present recordings, had worked with him since the 1930s and were familiar with his idiosyncratic style. He attached little importance to detailed rehearsals in which works were played through repeatedly, preferring instead to rely on the experience and musicality of the individual members of the orchestra, as well as on the inspiration of the moment.

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Richard Wagner PLAYLIST (reference recordings):    • Richard Wagner (1813-1883)