Eberhard Kummer - Nibelungenlied - Complete Recording (2007) {2CD Set MP3 Edition Only The Chaucer Studio OR038}

Over 18 hours of Medieval German storytelling! Eberhard Kummer performed this epic work in Middle High German with musical accompaniment in a series of concert performances in October and November 2006 in Vienna. This recording was undertaken and sponsored by the Phonogramm-Archiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was recorded before a live audience over a series of five afternoon and nights, from 4p.m. to 12 midnight.

Helmut Kowar was the director of the recording project, assisted by nadja Wallaszkovits, Julia Ahamer, Johannes Spitzbart, Christian Liebl, and Alexander Füller.

Here his live performances are edited together onto two MP3 format CDs, though the original recordings were 39 hours in length.
Edited and mastered by Troy Sales at Brigham Young University.
Produced by Ulrich Müller and Paul Thomas.
Designed by Carie Jackson.
Introductory notes written by Ulrich Müller, Margarete Springeth, and Maurice Sprague (English translator).

Recorded at Vienna October/November 2006

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Track Listing
Disc 1
1. Kriemhold (11:28)
2. Siegfried (12:04)
3. How Siegfried came to Worms (42:34)
4. How Siegfried fought with the Saxons (54:33)
5. How Siegfried first set eyes on Kriemhild (28:44)
6. How Gunther sailed to Iceland for Brünhild (29:06)
7. How Gunther won Brünhild (42:11)
8. How Siegfried sailed to fetch his vassals (23:58)
9. How Siegfried was sent to Works (23:05)
10. How Brünhild was received in Worms (51:47)
11. How Siegfried came home with his queen (16:55)
12. How Gunther invited Siegfried to the festival (24:56)
13. How Siegfried went to the festival with his queen (16:50)
14. How the queens railed at each other (31:16)
15. How Siegfried was betrayed (18:29)
16. How Siegfried was slain (43:16)
17. How Siegfried was lamented and buried (37:31)
18. How Siegmund returned home (15:24)
19. How the Nibelung treasure was brought to Worms (20:54)
20. How King Etzel sent to Burgundy for Kriemhild (31:44)

Disc 2
1. How King Etzel sent to Burgundy for Kriemhild (35:47)
2. How Kriemhild journeyed to Hungary (22:44)
3. How Kriemhild was received by Etzel (22:54)
4. How Kriemhild invited her brothers to the festival (17:33)
5. How Werbel and Swemmel accomplished their sovereign's embassy (38:05)
6. How the Nibelungs journeyed to Hungary (35:59)
7. How Gelprat was slain by Dancwart (27:06)
8. How they came to Pöchlarn (30:29)
9. How the Burgundians arrived in Hungary (18:32)
10. How Kriemhild upbraided Hagen and he did not rise to greet her (26:23)
11. How Hagen and Volker kept watch (15:29)
12. How they went to church (30:03)
13. How Dancwart slew Bloedelin (12:04)
14. How the Burgundians fought with the Huns (24:17)
15. How they threw the corpses from the hall (8:48)
16. How Iring was slain (21:33)
17. How the Queen had the hall burned down (23:40)
18. How Rüdiger was slain (40:30)
19. How Dietrich's warriors were slain to a man (36:39)
20. How Dietrich did battle with Gunther and Hagen (27:12)

Total length: 18:12:32



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