Wagner's Ring Motifs
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"Wagner's Ring Motifs" is aimed in the first instance at listeners new to the Ring and is intended to convey the fascination of Wagner's music in a clear and simple manner and to decode the musical and dramatic language of the mythical world of the cycle. But even listeners already familiar with the work will find that this database provides them with a crash course in what Thomas Mann described as the "allusive magic" of the Ring's leitmotifs.
The authors are Sven Friedrich, curator of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, and Gerhard K. Englert, the editor of the previous audio guides that have been released in the same series and that explore the world of classical music. Together, the authors offer listeners a modern, convenient and quick introduction to Wagner's cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung.
The motifs are presented in the order of their first appearance in the cycle and accompanied by an expert commentary. In this way, the listener is also introduced to the story of the Ring, an introduction that follows the narrative very closely by examining the development and meaning of the music.
The narrator is the distinguished British bass-baritone Sir John Tomlinson, who has appeared in countless performances at the Bayreuth Festival since making his début there as Wotan in 1988.
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An excellent introduction to Wagner
Wagner developed the music of the Ring out of many interdependent musical themes called leitmotifs, where leit- comes from the German word leiten, which means: to guide or to lead, so we might also speak of leading motifs. These motifs have a special function: They are attributed to certain persons of the RING, certain actions or certain moods, thus accompanying the action on stage through information transported through these leitmotifs by the music. This sometimes goes so far that the spectator sometimes can’t follow the course of the drama if he is not acquainted with the leading motifs and Wagner’s way of composing. This is where this presentation of the leading motifs comes in very handy. The audiobook presents the leading motifs in the order of their appearance in the RING by explaining the plot in its essentials and putting the leitmotifs right into their meaningful context. This goes into such extent that you can also hear this audiobook as an introduction to the RING. This is very clever and it is done in such an excellent and convincing way that on cannot but admire its perfection. This is no wonder since the author Dr. Sven Friedrich is the director of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, a well-known Wagner expert. This audiobook will surely achieve the status of a classic amongst the RING introductions for many decades to come since it is a work of art in its own right. The audiobook contains about 90 minutes of music and about 60 minutes of comments. Every listener will be both best entertained and elegantly educated. If you are new to the RING or plan to attend the cycle then surely this is the introduction you were wishing for!