Das Rheingold

by Richard Wagner

Das Rheingold cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1959
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 8:22
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the monumental prologue to the Ring Cycle, this landmark studio production conducted by Georg Solti radically advanced the possibilities of stereo operatic recording. Producer John Culshaw utilized pioneering spatial audio techniques and authentic, score-accurate stage effects鈥攊ncluding the famous eighteen actual anvils鈥攖o create an immersive 'theater of the mind'. The overwhelmingly powerful performance fundamentally revolutionized how classical operas were captured and consumed on vinyl.

Genres

Descriptors: mythology, acoustic, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Das Rheingold: Scene 1
  2. Das Rheingold: Scene 2
  3. Das Rheingold: Scene 3
  4. Das Rheingold: Scene 4

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