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RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
(TWILIGHT OF THE GODS)

5 disc set

CD1 1.-9. PROLOGUE
ACT I
10.-12. Scene 1

CD2 1.-8. Scene 2
9.-14. Scene 3

CD3 ACT II
1. Prelude
2. Scene 1
3.-4. Scene 2
5. Scene 3
6.-12. Scene 4
13.-18. Scene 5

CD4 ACT III
1. Prologue
2.-5. Scene 1
6.-11. Scene 2

CD5 1. Scene 2: Interlude: Siegfried's Funeral Music
2.-11. Scene3

The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder conductor

Katarina Dalayman Brünnhilde | Lars Cleveman Siegfried | Attila Jun Hagen
Andrew Shore Alberich | Peter Coleman-Wright Gunther
Nancy Gustafson Gutrune | Susan Bickley Waltraute
Ceri Williams, Yvonne Howard, Miranda Keys Norns
Katherine Broderick, Madeleine Shaw, Leah-Marian Jones Rhinemaidens

Hallé Choir | BBC Symphony Chorus | London Symphony Chorus
The Royal Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus

Recorded live on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May 2009 in The Bridgewater Hall.
This 5 disc set contains the full libretto and English translation as a pdf document.

The orchestra, reinforced for the occasion to more than 100 and with enough harps on- and off-stage to re-stock Paradise, responded with world-class playing from every section.
Elder's Hallé is now transcendent.'

The Daily Telegraph on the Hallé's performance of Götterdämmerung, May 2009

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