Ring Cycle for Piano - Alexander Jacob

February 22, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Ring Cycle for Piano - Alexander Jacob

About The Artist

Dr. Alexander Jacob received his Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of
Madras in India in 1975. He continued his literature studies at the University of Leeds
in England, where he earned a Master of Arts in English Literature in 1977. He
received his Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities from Pennsylvania State University
in 1988. From 1988 to 1996 Dr. Alexander Jacob continued his researches as post-
doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in Canada.

In 1984 Dr. Jacob received his Licentiate Diploma in piano from the Trinity College of
Music, of the University of London. Since 2001 he has given solo piano concerts with
works by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Wagner, Chopin and Scriabin in
Canada, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He has presented
concerts of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal for the Wagner Societies of
Barcelona, Brno, Prague and Dresden.

Program

Das Rheingold
Fourth Scene: “Schwüles Gedünst schwebt in der Luft”

Die Walküre
First Act: Overture
First Act: Love duet Siegmund-Sieglinde: ” Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond .
. . Du bist der Lenz“
Third Act: Wotan’s Farewell: ” Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind “ – Final Scene

Siegfried
First Act: Overture
Second Act: Overture
Third Act: Overture
Third Act: Love duet – Siegfried-Brünnhilde: “Sonnenhell leuchtet der Tag”

Götterdämmerung
Third Act:
Siegfried’s Death: ” Hagen! Was tust du? . . . Brünnhilde – heilige Braut“
Siegfried’s Funeral March

Third Act: Brünnhilde’s Farewell:
” Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort am Rande des Rheins zu Hauf’“
“Grane! Grüß deinen Herren”

(All transcriptions are by Richard Kleinmichel (1846-1901) except the overtures,
which are by Karl Klindworth (1830-1916).)

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