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| Play | 1. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 1. Of all great musical compositions (Ex.1-4) | Deryke Cooke | 3:37 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 2. The fundamental symbol (Ex.5-11) | Deryke Cooke | 4:46 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 3. Returning now to the Nature Motive (Ex.12-16) | Deryke Cooke | 3:22 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 4. A number of further motives (Ex.17-21) | Deryke Cooke | 3:17 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 5. A second, much smaller family (Ex.22-25) | Deryke Cooke | 2:35 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 6. So much for nature (Ex.26-38) | Deryke Cooke | 7:56 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 7. The cause of the deterioration (Ex.39-44) | Deryke Cooke | 3:30 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 8. The other transformation (Ex.45-48) | Deryke Cooke | 3:44 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 9. Several other motives (Ex.49-52) | Deryke Cooke | 2:47 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 10. Two further motives (Ex.41,53-61) | Deryke Cooke | 7:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 11. Basic motive associated with the spear (Ex.62/68) (Ex.62/8)(Ex.62/8) | Deryke Cooke | 5:17 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 12. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 12. Along another, more complex line (Ex.69-72) | Deryke Cooke | 2:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 13. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 13. In Act 2 of "Walküre" (Ex.69,73-75) | Deryke Cooke | 2:21 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 14. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 14. Returning now to Act 2 of "Walküre (Ex.76-79) | Deryke Cooke | 3:54 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 15. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 15. Love is another of the central symbols (Ex.80-83) | Deryke Cooke | 3:06 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 16. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 16. Later in the same scene (Ex.84-87) | Deryke Cooke | 2:22 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 17. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 17. Freia's motive has 2 independent segments (Ex.88-91 | Deryke Cooke | 2:01 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 18. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 18. The label "Flight" (Ex.92) | Deryke Cooke | 0:56 | £0.39 | ||
| Play | 19. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 19. When Fasolt, in Scene 2 of "Rhinegold" (Ex.93-8) | Deryke Cooke | 5:23 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 20. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 20. A little later in this interlude (Ex.99-103) | Deryke Cooke | 3:07 | £0.79 | ||
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 21. The other new motive (Ex.104-09) | Deryke Cooke | 3:36 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 22. There are several independent love-motives (Ex.110- | Deryke Cooke | 2:55 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 23. The characters in whose lives (Ex.115-120) | Deryke Cooke | 5:27 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 24. One further motive belongs (Ex.121) | Deryke Cooke | 1:25 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 25. The sword motive recurs (Ex.122-130) | Deryke Cooke | 4:28 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 26. Ironically, this phrase (Ex.131-5) | Deryke Cooke | 2:58 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 27. Closely associated with Gutrune's motive (Ex.136-40 | Deryke Cooke | 2:26 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 28. Here we come to the end (Ex.141-6) | Deryke Cooke | 3:43 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 29. Complementary to this symbol (Ex.147-9) | Deryke Cooke | 2:14 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 30. One last central symbol (Ex.150-7) | Deryke Cooke | 4:54 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 31. One further motive connected (Ex.158-61) | Deryke Cooke | 2:52 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 12. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 32. There are one or two motives (Ex.162-8) | Deryke Cooke | 3:48 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 13. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 33. These motives of Alberich & Mime (Ex.169-71) | Deryke Cooke | 2:07 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 14. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 34. Quite a number of subsidiary motives (Ex.172-6) | Deryke Cooke | 2:50 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 15. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 35. Besides this family of motives (Ex.177-80) | Deryke Cooke | 2:31 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 16. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 36. Our final example (Ex.10,181-2) | Deryke Cooke | 3:57 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 17. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 37. In the final scene of "Götterdämmerung" (Ex.181-3) | Deryke Cooke | 2:45 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 18. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 38. Even more masterly (Ex.184-8) | Deryke Cooke | 4:31 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 19. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 39. Now if we return (Ex.189-91) | Deryke Cooke | 2:48 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 20. Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction by Deryck Cooke (with musical examples) - 40. This masterly way (Ex.192-3) | Deryke Cooke | 4:52 | £0.79 | ||
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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This may look an intimidating, daunting and dull prospect - a 2+ hour lecture on the motifs in the Ring. Don't be put off. Whether you're a relative novice to the Ring and want to find out what it's all about, more experienced with a desire to understand the composer's methods better or an afficionado who thinks he knows it all inside out, there is great pleasure as well as elucidation to be had from this set. Originally made to accompany the Decca Solti Ring, it contains a multitude of musical illustrations taken from those recordings as well as some specially recorded by Solti just for this Introduction.
It wasn't the first time this has been tried. The famous HMV sets from the late 20's also included recorded examples of over 100 motifs. (These, by the way, are available as part of the Pearl reissue of those wonderful HMV recordings). What that set lacked was the wonderful insights as well as the approachability of the talk by Deryck Cooke. Cooke was a great and much missed musicologist - a Mahler expert responsible for the performing edition of the Tenth Symphony still most played today, a fascinating explorer into the nature of music's basic building-blocks in his excellent book, The Language of Music, and an inspiring and elucidating critic of Wagner's work as shown by the fascinating book he left unfinished at his death, I Saw the World End.
On these CDs he does much more than list the leitmotifs and identify them as calling-cards. He shows the amazingly integrated and organic growth of the musical material that Wagner uses throughout his vast work. He demonstrates how motifs can change their sense and meaning as they evolve through the drama. And he shows how the complex combinations of motifs can radically advance both the musical and the dramatic narrative of the piece. There are even places where he corrects the misinterpretation of some of the motifs that had become ingrained from early commentators' false labels.
This set should engage and enlighten anyone with an interest in Wagner's huge and inexhaustible tetralogy. Do give it a try - no matter how far down the road to Wagnerianism you are.
It wasn't the first time this has been tried. The famous HMV sets from the late 20's also included recorded examples of over 100 motifs. (These, by the way, are available as part of the Pearl reissue of those wonderful HMV recordings). What that set lacked was the wonderful insights as well as the approachability of the talk by Deryck Cooke. Cooke was a great and much missed musicologist - a Mahler expert responsible for the performing edition of the Tenth Symphony still most played today, a fascinating explorer into the nature of music's basic building-blocks in his excellent book, The Language of Music, and an inspiring and elucidating critic of Wagner's work as shown by the fascinating book he left unfinished at his death, I Saw the World End.
On these CDs he does much more than list the leitmotifs and identify them as calling-cards. He shows the amazingly integrated and organic growth of the musical material that Wagner uses throughout his vast work. He demonstrates how motifs can change their sense and meaning as they evolve through the drama. And he shows how the complex combinations of motifs can radically advance both the musical and the dramatic narrative of the piece. There are even places where he corrects the misinterpretation of some of the motifs that had become ingrained from early commentators' false labels.
This set should engage and enlighten anyone with an interest in Wagner's huge and inexhaustible tetralogy. Do give it a try - no matter how far down the road to Wagnerianism you are.
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This recording is a lecture demonstration of motivic development in Wagner's great work "The Ring of the Nibelungs." The composer Deryck Cooke presents a number of lectures demonstrating the main motives and their derivatives, tying in the dramatic and psychological associations. This may sound deadly dull, but it is quite entertaining. The excerpts are from the great Decca/Solti/Vienna recording. Special sections were also arranged to better highlight some of the motives by leaving out foreground elements. The format repeats the main motives whenever necessary to remind us what they sound like before playing some distant cousin.
I was ready for the project of listening to be quite taxing, but was surprised to find it to be a pleasure. It is a "must have" for any Ring enthusiast.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is an illustrated talk about the Ring's musical motifs using illustrations mostly from the Solti DECCA recording, but with some special recordings. I found it fascinating. Although I already had a good basic understanding of the Ring and its structure, I was anazed at the musical relationships _between_ so many of the motifs. Cooke also gives to 'worked examples' of orchestral extracts built from many motifs. The book contains the annotated music for all the 193 musical examples used in the talk.
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The must for Wagner's lovers
This is a truly fascinating lecture explaining the Ring motifs by the professional musicologist. Illustrated by music citations from Solti's Ring, it provides a pure joy for the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by piotr
Excellent accompaniment to The Ring
Excellent accompaniment to The Ring
This explanation of the many recurring leitmotifs in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is more than a mere playing of them (using... Read more
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Must have for Ring Cycle fans
I would thoroughly recommend this CD set to anyone who is interested in the Leitmotif development in Wagner's music, and specifically those who really want to get into the bare... Read more
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