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The Rheingold curse : a Germanic saga of greed and revenge from the medieval Icelandic Edda.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 06197
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Icelandic
- Subjects (All):
- Eddas.
- Sagas.
- Folk songs, Icelandic--Iceland.
- Folk music--Iceland.
- Folk music.
- Folk songs, Icelandic.
- Iceland.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Germanic saga of greed and revenge from the medieval Icelandic Edda
- Place of Publication:
- Köln : Marc Aurel Edition : Co-production with DeutschlandRadia and Westdeutscher Rundfunk, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Sung and spoken in Icelandic.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Vǫluspá I (The prophecy of the Seeress, part 1) ; Reginsmál (The lay of Regin) ; Fáfnismál (The lay of Fafnir) ; Sigrdrífomál (The lay of Brynhild) ; Instrumental interlude ; Sigurðarkviða in scamma I (A short poem about Sigurd, part 1)
- Disc II. Guðrúnarkviða in Fyrsta (The first lay of Gudrun) ; Sigurðarkviða in scamma II (A short poem about Sigurd, part 2) ; Guðrúnarkviða ǫnnor (The second lay of Gudrun) ; Atlakviða (The lay of Atli) ; Vǫluspá II (The prophecy of the Seeress, part 2).
- Participant:
- Sequentia (Agnethe Christensen, voice and percussion ; Lena Susanne Norin, voice ; Elizabeth Gaver, fiddle ; Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes, lyre ; Benjamin Bagby, voice, lyre, director.
- Notes:
- For various vocal and instrumental combinations.
- Texts adapted and music conceived by members of Sequentia.
- "This Sequentia recording of the Eddic Rheingold story is based on a music-theater production entitled "Edda: Viking tales of lust, revenge and family", which was created in 2001 as a collaboration between Sequentia and the New York stage director, Ping Chong"--P. 13 of insert.
- Source of sung texts: Codex regius (Reykjavík, Iceland, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, Gl.kgl.sml.2365 4to.).
- Compact discs.
- Durations: 44:47 (disc 1); 44:35 (disc 2).
- Program notes in English, French and German by Benjamin Bagby and Heimir Pálsson, and Icelandic texts with English, French and German translations (183 p.) in container.
- Recorded Sept. 2-5 2001, DeutschlandRadio, Sendesaal des Funkhauses Köln.
- OCLC:
- 50002601
- Publisher Number:
- 4035566200164
- MA 20016 Marc Aurel Edition
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