Richard Wagner - Der Ring des NibelungenDas Rheingold ( The Rhine Gold ) 0 : 00 Vorspiel 5 : 24 Zweite Szene 7 : 48 Dritte Szene 10 : 04 Heda ! Heda hedo ! Die Walküre ( The Valkyrie ) 11 : 57 Akt 114 : 53 Akt 1 , Final 15 : 35 Akt 2 , Prelude 18 : 06 Akt 3 , The Ride of the Valkyries 21 : 21 Akt 3 , Wotan ' s Farewell 26 : 37 Akt 3 , Magic Fire MusicSiegfried 28 : 00 Akt 1 , Siegfried forges his sword 28 : 45 Akt 1 , Final 29 : 02 Akt 2 , Forest murmurs 31 : 06 Akt 2 , Siegfried kills Fafner 32 : 24 Akt 2 , Fafner ' s lamentGötterdämmerung ( Twilight of the Gods ) 34 : 18 Siegfried ' s and Brunnhilde ' s passion 40 : 10 Siedfried ' s Rhine journey 45 : 16 Hagen ' s call to his clan 47 : 00 Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens 49 : 50 Siegfried ' s Death and Funeral Music 1 : 00 : 33 Immolation SceneConductor : Lorin MaazelOrchestra : Berliner PhilharmonikerDer Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner . Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty - six years , from 1848 to 1874 . The four operas that constitute the Ring cycle are , in the order of the imagined events they portray :