Richard Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen (georg Sol

Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland, Gerhard Stolze, Gustav Neidlinger, Kurt Böhme, Marga Höffgen, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti

"No one has surpassed Solti's DECCA ring in momentum, ambition, grandeur, dramatic immediacy, and sheer adrenaline."-Stereophile The third release of Solti's legendary Ring, SIEGFRIED appears as a limited deluxe 5-LP edition. The other music dramas of the Ring cycle will be released in the coming months. Deluxe vinyl edition: vinyl cut in half-speed process by Miles Showell of Abbey Road Studios, pressed in 180gr vinyl at Optimal; poly-lined inner sleeves, a richly illustrated booklet in a slipcase with gold finishing. The booklet contains: A text about the new HD remastering by Decca Classics label director & executive producer Dominic Fyfe. Introduction to the opera by John Culshaw. Synopses in English & German. Libretti (German + English). Photos from the original recording sessions, facsimiles of Solti's and Culshaw's scores, and previously unpublished curiosities from the recording sessions. At the beginning of the 1965 documentary "The Golden Ring," Humphrey Burton and Decca producer John Culshaw are seen in the back of a limousine on their way to the airport to meet Georg Solti. Burton asks Culshaw what his greatest concern is now that recording is about to begin. "To do justice to Wagner," Culshaw replies, then adds meaningfully, "and to try to reflect in sound and in this medium alone what he wanted, what he meant." The Decca Ring was always about sound. With this new transfer of the original analog master tapes, Decca has sought to bring out the best for Solti, for Culshaw and his chief engineer Gordon Parry, and ultimately for Wagner. "This is the greatest achievement in gramophone history to date," wrote Alec Robertson in Gramophone magazine in 1965. It was the perfect marriage of art and technique. Solti and Culshaw assembled a dream cast of the leading Wagner singers of their time, including Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick, Kirsten Flagstad, Régine Crespin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, James King, Lucia Popp, and Joan Sutherland.

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