Wagner – Götterdämmerung – 1951 Bayreuth Festival (mono) Joseph Keilberth SKU: SBTLP6175 Barcode: SBTLP6175 120.00 £120.00 Genre: Classical Label: Testament Released Date: 8th July 2016 Buying Format: 6LP Box Set Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Decca Testament – SBTLP61393 – 180 gram Vinyl Deluxe Box Set – 28 Page Booklet – Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering THE LOST RING CYCLE – NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER “…In brief, instead of a baton, Keilberth seems to wield a lean, sinewy whip, driving the Bayreuth band to peaks of tension from which the music then seems to leap straight skyward…The effect is so exhilarating because what Keilberth makes happen seems impossible: so large an orchestra and chorus shouldn’t be able to move so deftly, so gracefully, so precisely, at such speed…This is the best performance of the Gotterdammerung ever released, and it concludes one of the two or three best recordings of the Ring ever made.” – Richard Lehnert, Stereophile, June 2007 The most coveted performance of Wagner’s legendary epic Ring Cycle was in fact recorded by Decca in Stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival. But until now, that lost performance has remained but a memory. Thrillingly conducted by Joseph Keilberth (called by Astrid Varnay, “a conductor with so much love, who was always there for you”), the cycle provides the opportunity to hear complete for the first time on commercial release the definitive performances of Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Ramon Vinay, Josef Greindl and Paul Kuen, in addition to the much-loved Siegfried of Wolfgang Windgassen, here heard in his prime. These live Bayreuth performances were taped by a Decca team led by Peter Andry and including the noted engineers Kenneth Wilkinson and Roy Wallace, with Gordon Parry as assistant. Using a new six-channel mixer designed by Wallace, the team made both stereo and mono recordings of each opera. Three microphones were placed in the sunken orchestra pit and three were hanged from a lighting bridge about 20 feet above the stage. “This was brilliant; it worked beautifully,” remembers Wallace. The company prepared for an expected release, but John Culshaw, recently returned to Decca, vetoed the project. He disliked “live” recordings and already had plans for a studio Ring with Solti, which began four years later. Decca’s recording vividly captures in wonderful stereo sound the unique acoustic and stage/pit balance of the Bayreuth Festival theatre with its sunken orchestra, in addition to preserving the leading singers from a Wagnerian golden age in live performance. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen A Stage Festival for Three Days and a Preliminary Evening Ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend Un Festival scénique pour trois jours et une soirée Third Day/Dritter Tag/Troisième journée Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde – Astrid Varnay Siegfried – Wolfgang Windgassen Gunther – Hermann Uhde Waltraute – Maria von Ilosvay Alberich – Gustav Neidlinger Hagen – Josef Greindl Gutrune – Gré Brouwenstijn Woglinde – Jutta Vulpius Wellgunde – Elisabeth Schärtel Floßhilde – Maria Graf Erste Norn – Maria von Ilosvay Zweite Norn – Georgine va Milinkovi? Dritte Norn – Milna Bolotine Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra Chorus master/Chorleitung/Chef des choeurs: Wilhelm Pitz conducted by/Dirigent/direction: Joseph Keilberth Recorded/Aufgenommen/Enregistré: Festspielhaus Bayreuth, Thursday/Donnerstag/jeudi 28 July/Juli/juilliet 1955 Original Sound Recording made by The Decca Record Company Limited Remastering 2006 Testament Artist Joseph Keilberth Genre Classical Label Testament Buying Options 6LP Box Set Format 6LP , Box Set Condition New Country United Kingdom Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Joseph Keilberth View Product Quick View Joseph Keilberth Wagner – Götterdämmerung Classical | Testament | 6LP, Box Set Released 8th July 2016 £120.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joseph Keilberth Wagner – Götterdämmerung £120.00 Genre: Classical Label: Testament SKU: SBTLP61393 Formats: 6LP, Box Set Released Date: 8th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joseph Keilberth Wagner – 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