Nothing in the history of recording approaches Decca's mammoth
venture in producing Wagner's Ring complete for the first time. It
was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how
it was made and the people who made it, written by the man who - as
the recording producer - was in charge of the whole project.
Conducted by the great Georg Solti, Decca's recording has been
voted the best recording ever made. All the celebrated Wagner
singers of their age take their places in the story, including
Birgit Nilsson, Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau, Gottlob Frick and Wolfgang Windgassen. The
recording was made in Vienna with the Viennese Philharmonic
Orchestra, and Culshaw displayed extraordinary dedication to
Wagner's musical requirements and to putting into practice his own
belief that a stereo recording could create a 'theatre of the
mind'. This is the story of how the recording evolved, and how it
frequently almost came to grief. More than that, it is the story of
how a new medium - recorded opera in stereo - reached fulfilment,
and how this ground-breaking recording became seen as the highly
influential gold standard for the future.
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