Offer,Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner),...
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Contents
Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Jean Madeira (mezzo-soprano), Oda Balsborg (soprano), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Kurt Böhme (bass), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Claire Watson (soprano), Paul Kuentz (bass), Paul Kuentz (tenor), Ira Malaniuk (contralto), Walter Kreppel (bass), George London (bass-baritone), Hetty Plumacher (contralto), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Set Svanholm (tenor)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1958-10
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
"Weia! Waga! Woge du Welle!"
"Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!"
Wagner: Die Walküre
- Hans Hotter (bass), Vera Schlosser (soprano), James King (tenor), Marilyn Tyler (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Ernst Wiemann (bass), Régine Crespin (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Vera Little (mezzo-soprano), Claudia Hellmann (mezzo-soprano), Helga Dernesch (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Berit Lindholm (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1965-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Orchestervorspiel
"Wes Herd dies auch, hier muß ich rasten"
"Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell"
Wagner: Siegfried
- Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass), Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Kurt Böhme (bass), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marga Höffgen (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1962-10
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Vorspiel
"Zwangvolle Plage! Müh ohne Zweck!"
"Hoiho! Hoiho! Hau ein! Hau ein!"
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
- Gustav Neidlinger (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Helen Watts (contralto), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Grace Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Maureen Guy (mezzo-soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Claire Watson (soprano), Anita Valkki (soprano), Gwyneth Jones (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1964-05-20
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
"Welch Licht leuchtet dort?"
"Treu beratner Verträge Runen"
"Es ragt die Burg, von Riesen gebaut"