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	An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen by: Deryck Cooke, Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker, Anita Valkki, Berit Lindholm, Birgit Nilsson, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Claire Watson, Claudia Hellmann, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Eberhard Wächter, George London, Gerhard Stolze, Gottlob Frick, Grace Hoffmann, Gustav Neidlinger, Hans Hotter, Helen Watts, Helga Dernesch, Hetty Plumacher, Ira Malaniuk, James King, Jean Madeira, Joan Sutherland, Kirsten Flagstad, Kurt Böhme, Lucia Popp, Marga Höffgen, Marilyn Tyler, Maureen Guy, Oda Balsborg, Paul Kuen, Régine Crespin, Set Svanholm, Vera Little, Vera Schlosser, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Kreppel, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra : :When Wagner set the Ring to music, he intended the orchestra to act in the fashion of a chorus from a classic Greek tragedy--setting the mood and commenting on the action. In order to allow a nonverbal musical line to reflect on the plot, Wagner developed a psychologically and musically complex symbology to communicate his thoughts to the listener. From the beginning the Ring has spawned numerous written commentaries on the relationships of the motif structure, but by using examples from the Decca Ring recording, Deryck ...
	Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) / Sir Georg Solti by: Sir Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker, Vienna State Opera Choir, Kirsten Flagstad, Paul Kuen, George London, Jean Madeira, Ira Malaniuk, Gustav Neidlinger, Hetty Plumacher : essential recording:Modern storage media (CD/DVD) offer both high fidelity and great reliability in the playback of music. Yet only a bit more than a generation ago, the possibilities inherent in the long-playing record inspired John Culshaw, a young producer for Decca, to attempt the most ambitious recording project ever contemplated up to that time--a complete studio recording of the Ring. Though other Rings were issued after this landmark enterprise, none have equaled the Decca Ring in popularity. There are those who prefer live performances, or ...
	Strauss: Elektra from: Polygram Int'l : essential recording:Modern storage media (CD/DVD) offer both high fidelity and great reliability in the playback of music. Yet only a bit more than a generation ago, the possibilities inherent in the long-playing record inspired John Culshaw, a young producer for Decca, to attempt the most ambitious recording project ever contemplated up to that time--a complete studio recording of the Ring. Though other Rings were issued after this landmark enterprise, none have equaled the Decca Ring in popularity. There are those who prefer live performances, or ...
	Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen from: Orfeo D'or : essential recording:Modern storage media (CD/DVD) offer both high fidelity and great reliability in the playback of music. Yet only a bit more than a generation ago, the possibilities inherent in the long-playing record inspired John Culshaw, a young producer for Decca, to attempt the most ambitious recording project ever contemplated up to that time--a complete studio recording of the Ring. Though other Rings were issued after this landmark enterprise, none have equaled the Decca Ring in popularity. There are those who prefer live performances, or ...
	Merit - Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Knappertsbusch from: Music & Arts Program : :Bayreuth Festival Recording, 1956
	Richard Wagner: Die Walküre from: Idi [Ital Disc Inst] : :Bayreuth Festival Recording, 1956
	Das Rheingold from: Decca / London : :Bayreuth Festival Recording, 1956
	Richard Strauss: Elektra from: Orfeo D'or : :Strauss's shocker gets an appropriately shocking performance, live from the stage of the 1957 Salzburg Festival. Inge Borkh was a superb Straussian, and her Elektra is riveting, sung with febrile passion. Jean Madeira's Klytemnestra is in Borkh's league, and Lisa Della Casa's somewhat cool Chrysothemis isn't far behind. The men are right up there with them, but it's the conductor who stars. Dimitri Mitropoulos drives a volcanic performance, full of dramatic thrust and inevitability that captures the surging lyricism and yearning of the characters. He even ...
	Richard Strauss: Elektra from: Opera D'oro :Album Description:'This recording finds Borkh in top form. Her energy and voice never flag … Lisa della Casa is a near-perfect Chyrsothemis … Dimitri Mitropoulos paces the opera with an inexorable sense of direction … this Salzburg performance is a crowning achievement for both conductor and soprano.' -IRA SIFF Richard Strauss’s Elektra, premiered in Dresden in 1909, is not only a riveting, sometimes terrifying music drama; it is historically significant in every sense of the phrase. On the one hand, it transforms an ancient Greek tragedy ...
	Georges Bizet: Carmen from: Preiser Records :Album Description:'This recording finds Borkh in top form. Her energy and voice never flag … Lisa della Casa is a near-perfect Chyrsothemis … Dimitri Mitropoulos paces the opera with an inexorable sense of direction … this Salzburg performance is a crowning achievement for both conductor and soprano.' -IRA SIFF Richard Strauss’s Elektra, premiered in Dresden in 1909, is not only a riveting, sometimes terrifying music drama; it is historically significant in every sense of the phrase. On the one hand, it transforms an ancient Greek tragedy ...