pf: Georg Solti cond/ Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Year/Date of Composition: 1853-4

Wotan: George London
Donner: Eberhard Wächter
Froh: Waldemar Kmentt
Loge: Set Svanholm
Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger
Mime: Paul Kuen
Fasolt: Walter Kreppel
Fafner: Kurt Böhme
Fricka: Kirsten Flagstad
Freia: Claire Watson
Erda: Jean Madeira
Woglinde: Oda Balsborg
Wellgunde: Hetty Plümacher
Floßhilde: Ira Malaniuk

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0:00 - Scene One (The Rhine River)
4:13 - (Woglinde's lullaby)
5:25 - (The dwarf Alberich appears)
6:38 - (Alberich tries to catch Woglinde...but fails)
7:36 - (Wellgunde's seduction)
9:12 - (Flosshilde's seduction)
11:09 - (Alberich's anger and accusation as he falls for the Rhinemaidens' pranks)
11:36 - (The Rhinemaidens don't give a damn)
13:57 - (The sun shines on the Rhinegold)
17:17 - (Wellgunde: "Making a ring from the gold grants world-power.")
17:56 - (Woglinde: "One must renounce love to make the ring of power.")
19:46 - (Alberich renounces love and steals the Rhinegold.)

24:11 - Scene Two (On a meadow outside Valhalla. Construction of Valhalla has just been completed.)
25:29 - (Fricka: "A debt is due.")
33:04 - (Freia fleeing from the Giants)
35:04 - (Entrance of Fasolt and Fafner)
41:22 - (Fafner considers taking the Golden Apples from Freia)
42:31 - (Froh and Donner try to defend Freia)
43:25 - (Wotan intervenes with his Spear)
44:12 - (Entrance of Loge)
47:57 - (Loge talks of his search for payment for the giants, and his hearing the Rhinemaidens' tale)
59:21 - (The Giants take Freia)
1:00:57 - (The Gods grow older)
1:07:22 - Interlude (Wotan and Loge descend to Nibelheim to steal the Rhinegold from Alberich)

1:09:48 - Scene Three (Nibelheim)
1:10:31 - (Alberich takes the Tarnhelm, forged by his brother Mime)
1:13:51 - (Wotan and Loge converse with Mime about Alberich's tyranny over the Nibelungs)
1:29:25 - (Alberich transforms into a dragon, then a toad, and gets captured by Wotan)
1:32:30 - Interlude

1:35:55 - Scene Four (Outside Valhalla)
1:46:12 - (Alberich curses the Ring)
1:50:21 - (The mist clears)
1:56:17 - (Loge and Froh heap treasure on top of Freia)
1:59:51 - (Fafner turns his attention to the Ring, which Wotan refuses to give)
2:01:26 - (The goddess Erda rises from the ground: "A darksome day dawns for your godhood:
be counseled, give up the Ring!)
2:07:55 - (Wotan gives up the Ring, releasing Freia)
2:09:17 - (The curse takes effect...the giants fight over the Ring; Fafner kills Fasolt)
2:14:22 - (Donner clears the fog on the mountain top with his hammer)
2:16:16 - Rainbrow Bridge Scene; The gods (all except Loge) cross the bridge to Valhalla
2:22:03 - (The Rhinemaidens lament the loss of the Rhinegold.)

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