Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

by Georg Solti & Wiener Philharmoniker

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: Austria
  • Length: 10:39:45
  • Community rating: 4.48/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by John Culshaw across seven years of sessions in Vienna's Sofiensaal, this was the first complete studio recording of Wagner's tetralogy, sung by a cast that includes Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter and Kirsten Flagstad. It has been voted the greatest recording ever made in polls by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine, and it was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, operatic, bombastic, monumental, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. Prelude And Scene 1 (24:20)
  2. Scene 2 (Part 1) (24:20)
  3. Scene 2 (Concl), Scene 3 (Pt. 1) (25:40)
  4. Scene 3 (Concl), Interlude, Scene 4 (Pt. 1) (26:25)
  5. Scene 4 (Pt. 2) (25:35)
  6. Scene 4 (Concl.) (20:00)
  7. Act 1, Part 1 (26:15)
  8. Act I, Part 2 (18:45)
  9. Act I, Conclusion (20:35)
  10. Act 2, Part 1 (18:15)
  11. Act 2, Part 2 (22:30)
  12. Act 2, Part 3 (26:40)
  13. Act 2, Conclusion (25:00)
  14. Act 3, Part 1 (22:40)
  15. Act 3, Part 2 (21:00)
  16. Act 3, Conclusion (26:30)
  17. Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1
  18. Act 1, Scene 1, Conclusion
  19. Act 1, Scene 3, Conclusion
  20. Act 2, Scene 1; Scene 2, Part 1
  21. Act 2, Scene 2, Conclusion
  22. Act 2, Scene 3
  23. Act 3, Scene 1; Scene 2 ,Part 1
  24. Act 3, Scene 2, Part 2; Scene 3, Part 1
  25. Act 3, Scene 3, Part 2
  26. Act 3, Scene 3, Conclusion
  27. Prologue (Part 1) (24:40)
  28. Prologue (Conclusion) And Act 1 (Part 1) (16:35)
  29. Act 1 (Part 2) (21:40)
  30. Act 1 (Part 3) (24:40)
  31. Act 1 (Part 4) (23:35)
  32. Act 1 (Conclusion), Act 2 (Part 1) (22:15)
  33. Act 2 (Part 2) (21:30)
  34. Act 2 (Part 3) (18:15)
  35. Act 2 (Conclusion), Act 3 (Part 1) (24:15)
  36. Act 3 (Part 2) (24:45)
  37. Act 3 (Part 3) (22:45)
  38. Act 3 (Conclusion) (20:20)

Credits

  • Richard Wagner - primary artist, composed by
  • Georg Solti - primary artist, conductor
  • Kirsten Flagstad - primary artist, soprano vocals [fricka]
  • George London - primary artist, baritone vocals [wotan]
  • Set Svanholm - primary artist, tenor vocals [loge]
  • Gustav Neidlinger - primary artist, baritone vocals [alberich], bass vocals, baritone vocals [alberich]
  • Birgit Nilsson - primary artist, soprano vocals [br眉nnhilde]
  • R茅gine Crespin - primary artist, soprano vocals [sieglinde]
  • G - lacquer cut by
  • John Culshaw - producer

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