The Golden Ring

The Golden Ring (1965)

Documentary Music

Watching the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, and a stellar cast record Wagner's immense Götterdämmerung for Decca in the fall of 1964 provides a thousand lessons in the art of working under pressure. For this classic documentary, The Golden Ring, a BBC camera crew eavesdropped as producer John Culshaw guided his engineering team through tricky technical maneuvers far removed from the relative ease of modern digital editing. What utter concentration and focus Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bring to their collective and individual singing! Solti, for his part, oozes energy and exactitude as he pleads for greater precision and frets over details in the car en route to the sessions.

  • Release Date: 1965-12-26
  • Runtime: 1h 27min
  • Director: Humphrey Burton

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Cast

  • Birgit Nilsson

    Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)

  • Wolfgang Windgassen

    Himself - Singer (Siegfried)

  • Gottlob Frick

    Himself - Singer (Hagen)

  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    Himself - Singer (Gunther)

  • Claire Watson

    Herself - Singer (Gertrune)

  • Georg Solti

    Himself - The Conductor

  • John Culshaw

    Himself - The Recording Team

  • Gordon Parry

    Himself - The Recording Team

  • James Brown

    Himself - The Recording Team

  • Christopher Raeburn

    Himself - The Recording Team

  • Jack Law

    Himself - The Recording Team

  • Erik Smith

    Himself - The Recording Team

  • Humphrey Burton

    Himself - Narrator

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