One could argue that the Ring cycle from which this Das Rheingold is taken is the greatest ever recorded. There may, of course, be younger listeners who'd say the honor should go to Solti for its intensity or the Karajan for its clarity or the Levine for its lucidity, and older listeners who'd say it should go to the Krauss for its fire or the Keilberth for its drive or the Knappertsbusch for its flow. But while few would deny the merits of those superlative recordings, the Ring that starts with this Rheingold is arguably ...
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One could argue that the Ring cycle from which this Das Rheingold is taken is the greatest ever recorded. There may, of course, be younger listeners who'd say the honor should go to Solti for its intensity or the Karajan for its clarity or the Levine for its lucidity, and older listeners who'd say it should go to the Krauss for its fire or the Keilberth for its drive or the Knappertsbusch for its flow. But while few would deny the merits of those superlative recordings, the Ring that starts with this Rheingold is arguably greater.To direct this Ring, Rome Radio hired Wilhelm Furtwängler -- by common assent, the greatest twentieth century conductor of the nineteenth century Austro-German repertoire in general and of Wagner in particular. To let the cast rest its voices and gather strength, this Ring was recorded one act at a time every two to four days in autumn 1953. Composed in an uninterrupted act, this Rheingold was taped in a single session on October 26 before a very quiet audience with very...
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