This is a fine conclusion to the Hong Kong Ring Cycle, a great achievement for the orchestra and its administration. Van Zweden’s conducting is satisfying in its integrity, sensitively supporting the singers while maintaining a sweeping line to the dramatic arc – the big show-pieces are grand and thrilling without overheating, but tension sags in some key scenes.

Despite Eric Halfvarson’s terrifying Hagen and Peter Kálmán’s grasping Alberich, their dream sequence is low key, hardly conveying the impending doom, and later on the local choir – bolstered by imports – barely threatens, not helped by their distant balance on the recording. I was quite taken by Gun-Brit Barkmin’s Brünnhilde – a distinctive colour to the voice...