{"id":4656,"date":"2018-10-02T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T09:47:53","slug":"naxos-completes-wagner-ring-cycle-with-gotterdammerung-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Naxos completes Wagner Ring Cycle with\u00a0G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung\u00a0release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On\u00a0<strong>9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2018<\/strong>, Naxos releases\u00a0<strong><em>G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung<\/em><\/strong>, the fourth and final opera of Wagner\u2019s mighty Ring Cycle, on CD, audio Blu-ray and digital formats. The release of this album concludes a three-year journey started in January 2015 which has seen the\u00a0<strong>Hong Kong Philharmonic<\/strong>, under their dynamic Music Director\u00a0<strong>Jaap van Zweden<\/strong>, record\u00a0<strong><em>Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>over four successive seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Naxos-ring.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Naxos-ring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Naxos-ring.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Naxos-ring-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The highly acclaimed project features an all-star international Wagner cast, led by soprano\u00a0<strong>Gun-Brit Barkmin<\/strong>\u00a0in her debut as Br\u00fcnnhilde, tenor\u00a0<strong>Daniel Brenna<\/strong>\u00a0as Siegfried, bass-baritone\u00a0<strong>Shenyang<\/strong>\u00a0as Gunther, bass\u00a0<strong>Eric Halfvarson<\/strong>\u00a0as Hagen, soprano\u00a0<strong>Amanda Majeski<\/strong>\u00a0as Gutrune and mezzo-soprano\u00a0<strong>Michelle DeYoung<\/strong>\u00a0as Waltraute, with the\u00a0<strong>Bamberg Symphony Chorus<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Latvian State Choir<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simultaneously, Naxos releases the complete\u00a0<strong><em>Der Ring des<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>Nibelungen<\/em><\/strong>, as a special boxed set. Containing 14 CDs, the box also features a USB card loaded with extra content, including the libretti to all four operas, concert photos and behind-the-scenes video.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m especially proud of the [Hong Kong Philharmonic] Orchestra after these last four years.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a long road, but a wonderful road. And I think the orchestra got better and better, playing this music, especially by<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not only learning their own parts, but learning the parts around them \u2013 what\u2019s going on in the orchestra.\u201d<\/h6>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jaap van Zweden<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a09th\u00a0November 2018, Naxos releases\u00a0G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung, the fourth and final opera of Wagner\u2019s mighty Ring Cycle, on CD, audio Blu-ray and digital formats. The release of this album concludes a three-year journey started in January 2015 which has seen the\u00a0Hong Kong Philharmonic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}