Wagner Der Ring Des Nibelungen CD George Solti London

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London Records Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Made in Germany---Box has a few minor scuffs, books and CD's are brilliantFROM Stereophile Magazine: I'm going to beg the question and count this as one-and-a-half of the five all-time best recordings, only because it wouldn't be fair to count it as one and if I count it, correctly, as four, I would lose a turn and go directly to jail. This ground-breaking project remains epic in scope, execution, and quality. It is, by the way, the loudest Ring on discs, which alone will please many, but this is not to say that it's longer on bombast than on understanding, nuance, or integral complexity. Waves of orchestral sound occasionally threaten to (and even more occasionally, do) overwhelm the singers, but it's a perfect opera-house balance of a really big performance and I can not argue with it. The casting is the strongest on discs, with Nilsson and Windgassen the best in their roles; ditto Neidlinger as Alberich and Hotter and London as Wotan. The weakest of the three is the Walküre (James King's Siegmund sounds a bit matter-of-fact; he drags Regine Crespin down with him), but it's still splendid, even if it doesn't make it to Böhm's Philips level, let alone the level Solti sets for the rest of the cycle. But the other three are tops in a tough competition: The Rheingold has never been bettered, read more

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