The Ride of the Valkyries from "Die Walküre"

Album by Richard Wagner & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Karl Anton Rickenbacher

The Ride of the Valkyries is an orchestral excerpt from the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner, premiered in 1870. The passage features bold brass fanfares, energetic rhythmic propulsion and vivid orchestral colour characteristic of Wagner's late-Romantic, leitmotif-driven style, and it occupies a dramatic moment within the Ring cycle that illustrates his techniques of thematic transformation in his middle-period output.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Die Walküre: Act III. "The Ride of the Valkyries"
    5:38
  2. 2.
    Götterdämmerung: Act I. "Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey"
    10:34
  3. 3.
    Götterdämmerung: Act III. "Death March"
    8:24
  4. 4.
    Lohengrin: Act I. Prelude
    8:42
  5. 5.
    Lohengrin: Act III. Prelude
    3:15
  6. 6.
    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act I. Prelude
    9:20
  7. 7.
    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act III. "The Dance of the Apprentices"
    2:49

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