This is the 8th release in PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition and the 2nd one in the Wagner Year.

Das Rheingold is the second release of the cycle: “Der Ring des Nibelungen”.

The last 2 “Ring recordings” will follow in the course of 2013. All the previous releases in the cycle have received overwhelming critical acclaim. Last month our Parsifal recording won a BBC Music Magazine award for technical excellence. The jury report said: “….unquestionably the finest modern version on disc”.

PentaTone’s Wagner Edition is an unprecedented project and we aim at supporting it with a lot of attention in the media.

In the Wagner year there will be a lot of attention to Wagner through articles in the media and performances of his operas. We expect therefore the interest for the PentaTone Edition (especially as a collector’s item) to increase substantially.

Artists

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Iris Vermillion (Fricka), Robert Dean Smith (Siegmund), Melanie Diener (Sieglinde), Timo Riihonen (Hunding), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Anja Fidelia Ulrich (Gerhilde), Fionnuala McCarthy (Ortlinde), Heike Wessels (Waltraute), Kismara Pessatti (Schwertleite), Carola Höhn (Helmwige), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Siegrune), Nicole Piccolomini (Grimgerde) & Renate Spingler (Roßweiße)

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski