Sir Georg Solti

Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti – Wagner: Das Rheingold (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:25:50 minutes | 5,91 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca

“”No one has surpassed Solti’s DECO ring in momentum, pretension, grandeur, dramatic immediacy and joking adrenaline” Stereophiles

As the first release of the legendary solid ring, the RHEINGOLD is released as a limited Deluxe 3-LP edition. The other music dramas of the Ring cycle will be released in the coming months. If you can purchase all four stars via this shop, you will have the opportunity to purchase an exclusive wooden slipcase for all four products as well as a hardcover book with GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG.

A dream cast, including George London also Wotan, Set Svanholm as Large, Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich and Kirsten Flagstad as Fricka. Sir Georg Solti is the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic.

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti – Richard Wagner : Der Ring des Nibelungen (1967/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 14:35:11 minutes | 8,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Richard Wagner was one of the most revolutionary figures in the history of music, a composer who made pivotal contributions to the development of harmony and musical drama that reverberate even today. Indeed, though Wagner occasionally produced successful music written on a relatively modest scale, opera – the bigger, the better – was clearly his milieu, and his aesthetic is perhaps the most grandiose that Western music has ever known. Early in his career, Wagner learned both the elements and the practical, political realities of his craft by writing a handful of operas which were unenthusiastically, even angrily, received. Beginning with Rienzi (1838-40) and The Flying Dutchman (1841), however, he enjoyed a string of successes that propelled him to immortality and changed the face of music. His monumental Ring cycle of four operas – Das Rheingold (1853-54), Die Walküre (1854-56), Siegfried (1856-71) and Götterdämmerung (1869-74) – remains the most ambitious and influential contribution by any composer to the opera literature. Tristan and Isolde (1857-59) is perhaps the most representative example of Wagner’s musical style, which is characterized by a high degree of chromaticism, a restless, searching tonal instability, lush harmonies, and the association of specific musical elements (known as leitmotifs, the flexible manipulation of which is one of the hallmarks of Wagner’s music) with certain characters and plot points. Wagner wrote text as well as music for all his operas, which he preferred to call “music dramas.” Wagner’s life matched his music for sheer drama. Born in Leipzig on May 22, 1813, he began in the early 1830s to write prolifically on music and the arts in general; over his whole career, his music would to some degree serve to demonstrate his aesthetic theories. He often worked as a conductor in his early years; a conducting engagement took him to Riga, Latvia, in 1837, but he fled the country in the middle of the night two years later to elude creditors. Wagner as a young man had some sympathy with the revolutionary movements of the middle 19th century (and even the Ring cycle contains a distinct anti-materialist and vaguely socialist drift); in the Dresden uprisings of 1849 he apparently took up arms, and he had to leave Germany when the police restored order. Settling in Zurich, Switzerland, he wrote little for some years, but evolved the intellectual framework for his towering, mature masterpieces. Wagner returned to Germany in 1864 under the protection and patronage of King Ludwig II of Bavaria; it was in Bayreuth, near Munich, that he undertook the construction of an opera house (completed in 1876) built to his personal specifications and suited to the massive fusion of music, staging, text, and scene design that his later operas entailed. Bayreuth became something of a shrine for the fanatical Wagnerites who carried the torch after his death; it remains the goal of many a pilgrimage today. His attitude toward Jews was deeply ambivalent (he believed, mistakenly, that his stepfather was Jewish), but some of his writings contain anti-Semitic elements that have aroused considerable controversy among opera lovers, especially in view of Adolf Hitler’s apparent predilection for the composer’s music. – Rovi Staff

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti – Wagner: Die Walküre (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:48:59 minutes | 2,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Twice voted the greatest recording ever made (by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine) these historic performances of Wagner’s The Ring led by Sir Georg Solti were originally rereleased in 2012 as an epic 17-disc box set to mark the 100th anniversary of Solti’s birth. It took Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic seven years to record the entire cycle, from 1958 to 1965, making these the first complete studio recordings of The Ring.
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti – Wagner: Das Rheingold (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:25:45 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Twice voted the greatest recording ever made (by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine) these historic performances of Wagner’s The Ring led by Sir Georg Solti were originally rereleased in 2012 as an epic 17-disc box set to mark the 100th anniversary of Solti’s birth. It took Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic seven years to record the entire cycle, from 1958 to 1965, making these the first complete studio recordings of The Ring.
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