Song of the Week: Gwyneth Jones-Heil dir Sonne

Say what you will of the Met's new Ring Cycle, when I heard the last half hour or so of Siegfried, I was pretty much done in. I went drifting home in a Wagner-induced haze (along with half the population of Berlin, in the S-bahn) and promptly went searching for the music online. This is what I found: Gwyneth Jones, whose tone is so pure and gorgeous that she has pretty much become my favorite Brunnhilde (sorry, Deb Voigt). The tenor here, Manfred Jung, sounds a little shrill, but given that he's just sung Siegfried, we can forgive him for it.