Wagner's Ring recording reforges partnership between RSNO, Järvi and Chandos PDF Print E-mail

Wagner The Ring An Orchestra Adventure
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s (RSNO) recording of Wagner’s The Ring, an Orchestral Adventure is released on Monday 28 January 2008.

Henk de Vlieger’s symphonic arrangement of music from Wagner’s Ring Cycle reunites a long-standing and much celebrated recording partnership between the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, its Conductor Laureate Neeme Järvi and Chandos Records.  The Ring, an Orchestral Adventure is the first recording in fifteen years from the three parties combined, and continues the globally recognised award-winning partnership of the esteemed Estonian conductor and Scotland’s national orchestra, which has produced 67 recordings over the past 23 years.

The work was arranged in 1991 by the Dutch composer and percussionist Henk de Vlieger.  Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen includes many long and significant stretches of orchestral music; this recording tells the story of the cycle by bringing them together in the same sequence they appear in the tetralogy. The majority of the work is pure Wagner, and includes such famous moments as: The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla, The Ride of the Valkyries, Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music, Forest Murmers, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Funeral March and Brunnhilde’s Immolation. The CD also includes the composer’s symphonic poem Siegfried Idyll, from which Wagner adapted musical ideas for the third opera of the cycle, Siegfried. It was recorded over three days at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall; one of the orchestra’s performing homes, in August 2007.  Future recordings are planned between the RSNO, Järvi and Chandos.

RSNO Conductor Laureate Neeme Järvi: 

“This is the first time I have recorded the music of Wagner and I hope it is the first of many.  It was a great pleasure creating music with the RSNO who are in excellent form right now.  It is also great to be working with Chandos once again, and I look forward to continuing our fruitful relationship.”
 

The release of the recording coincides with the Scottish première of The Ring, an Orchestral Adventure, led by Neeme Järvi, in a programme that also includes Haydn’s Symphony No101 Clock.  They will be performed at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 23 February at 7.30pm and at The Edinburgh Festival Theatre on Sunday 24 February at 6.00pm.  For more information log onto www.rsno.org.uk.
Both the recording and the performance at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall are supported by the Jennie S Gordon Memorial Foundation.


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