℗ 2022 Universal Music Operations Limited; A Decca Classics Release
Released | October 28, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 16m 41s |
Record Label | Decca Music Group |
Genre | Classical |
The Golden Ring: Great Scenes from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A / Scene IV
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1.1
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Heda! Heda! Hedo! Zu mir, du Gedüft! (Edit / Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Eberhard Wächter; Waldemar Kmentt; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
2:50 | |||
1.2
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Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; George London; Kirsten Flagstad; Set Svanholm; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
4:50 | |||
1.3
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Rheingold! Rheingold! (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Hetty Plümacher; George London; Set Svanholm; Oda Balsborg; Ira Malaniuk; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
3:40 | |||
Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Act III
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1.4
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Hojotoho! Heiaha! (Ride of the Valkyries / Edit / Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Vera Schlosser; Berit Lindholm; Brigitte Fassbaender; Helen Watts; Helga Dernesch; Vera Little; Claudia Hellmann; Marilyn Tyler; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
6:24 | |||
1.5
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Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Hans Hotter; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
2:18 | |||
1.6
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Denn einer nur freie die Braut (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Hans Hotter; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
10:11 | |||
1.7
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Loge, hör! Lausche hieher! (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Hans Hotter; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
4:42 | |||
Siegfried, WWV 86C / Act I
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1.8
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Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Schmiede, mein Hammer, ein hartes Schwert! (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Wolfgang Windgassen; Gerhard Stolze; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
5:43 | |||
Siegfried, WWV 86C / Act II
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1.9
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Meine Mutter, ein Menschenweib! (Edit / Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Wolfgang Windgassen; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
5:26 | |||
1.10
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Siegfried's Hornruf (Edit / Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Roland Berger; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
2:11 | |||
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III
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1.11
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Trauermarsch (Edit / Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
7:58 | |||
1.12
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Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Birgit Nilsson; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
9:13 | |||
1.13
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Mein Erbe nun nehm' ich zu eigen (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Birgit Nilsson; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
2:32 | |||
1.14
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Fliegt heim, ihr Raben! (Remastered 2022)
Richard Wagner; Birgit Nilsson; Gottlob Frick; Wiener Philharmoniker; Sir Georg Solti |
8:43 |
The Golden Ring - Great Scenes from Der Ring des Nigelungen, Decca’s landmark recording of Wagner’s 15-hour epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Sir Georg Solti, is the most celebrated classical recording in history. The world’s best-selling opera recording —a recording project on a scale without precedent and the first-ever studio recording of Wagner’s masterpiece, it took seven years to record from 1958 to 1965.
Solti and the legendary Decca producer John Culshaw assembled the dream cast, the greatest Wagnerian voices of the day: Kirsten Flagstad, George London, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, James King, Régine Crespin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, Lucia Popp, Gwyneth Jones and Brigitte Fassbaender. The luxury casting even extended to Joan Sutherland as the Woodbird in Siegfried.
The perfect marriage of art and technology, this massive undertaking would not have been greeted with such unprecedented enthusiasm and rave reviews were it not for the skill of Decca’s dream team: Producer John Culshaw and Chief Engineer Gordon Parry. They created in sound the ideal ‘Theatre in the Mind.’ As Culshaw said: “It is precisely because the work is so huge and demanding that one should not pass lightly over any detail.”
The recording set new standards for opera in stereo and is still regarded as the benchmark over six decades later.
192 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Decca Music Group Studio Masters
Tracks 1-14 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-14 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.22 -0.52 to -0.20 | -17.56 -22.53 to -13.92 | -13.24 -18.80 to -10.20 | 9 7 to 13 | |
1 | Heda! Heda! Hedo! Zu mir, du Gedüft! (Edit / Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -16.69 | -13.1 | 9 |
2 | Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -18.25 | -14.8 | 11 |
3 | Rheingold! Rheingold! (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -16.88 | -11.2 | 8 |
4 | Hojotoho! Heiaha! (Ride of the Valkyries / Edit / Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -14.22 | -10.8 | 8 |
5 | Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -15.70 | -12.0 | 9 |
6 | Denn einer nur freie die Braut (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -19.05 | -13.9 | 10 |
7 | Loge, hör! Lausche hieher! (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -15.25 | -11.7 | 8 |
8 | Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Schmiede, mein Hammer, ein hartes Schwert! (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -15.16 | -11.5 | 8 |
9 | Meine Mutter, ein Menschenweib! (Edit / Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -22.53 | -17.5 | 13 |
10 | Siegfried's Hornruf (Edit / Remastered 2022) | -0.21 | -19.09 | -13.6 | 10 |
11 | Trauermarsch (Edit / Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -16.45 | -10.7 | 7 |
12 | Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -20.27 | -15.6 | 12 |
13 | Mein Erbe nun nehm' ich zu eigen (Remastered 2022) | -0.52 | -22.35 | -18.8 | 12 |
14 | Fliegt heim, ihr Raben! (Remastered 2022) | -0.20 | -13.92 | -10.2 | 7 |