Download recordings of all of Wagner's 'mature' works - free Written By The Wagnerian on Saturday, 10 August 2013| 3:59:00 pm. Wagner's Ring| A Ring of the Nibelung Resource. Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018! - Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now.

Today, more than a century after its first performance, Richard Wagner's The Ring of Nibelung endures as one of the most significant artistic creations in the history of opera. This monumental work not only altered previously accepted concepts of music and drama but also inspired creative and intellectual efforts far beyond the field of opera. Previous studies of the Ring have appealed only to those already acquainted in some way with the Wagnerian art. For the uninitiated, Wagner and his landmark creation have seemed forbidding, and those eager to learn about the masterpiece have faced a vast and frequently esoteric body of commentary. Professor Cord addresses the interests of the non-specialist by taking the reader first into Wagner's unique intent, and then through the complete history of the Ring. Cord, who has attended forty performances of the Ring, considers the conception of the poem, its development into a music-drama exemplifying Wagnerian thought, its introduction to the world, and the reactions and interpretation it elicits.

The effect that the Ring, like all Wagner's mature dramas, has on listeners is strong enough to make individual weaknesses in performances, which there are bound to be in any staging or even purely concert performance of a work involving so many individuals, and lasting so long, less damaging than they might be.
But there are limits, and the first thing that is required is a great Wagner conductor. At present there are none, so it is pointless to hope for a great new recording of the work: and the greatest period of Wagner singing, roughly 1920-1960, means equally that we must look further back for our choices of great recordings than we might for most works.
Title: Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
Label: Decca 414 115-2
Conductor: Georg Solti

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The most famous, partly because the first, Ring ever released, between 1958 and 1966, is conducted by Georg Solti with brazen vigour, and has an ostentatiously glamorous sound - in fact it is all sound effects - but its cast consists too largely of great singers not at their peak, and it is a matter of exciting moments at best, rather than a moving whole. It retains immense prestige, but I wonder how many people still manage to survive listening to it through [Decca 455 555-2, 14 CDs].
Title: Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
Label: Deutsche Grammophon DG 457 780-2
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

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It was followed closely by the Herbert von Karajan recording, a very different affair, all refinement and silky textures, except for occasional outbursts of brutality. Already, between the late 1950s and a decade later, we can hear a decline in the standard of singing. Whatever weaknesses a recording can absorb, the roles of Wotan, Brünnhilde, Siegfried and Alberich must be at least fairly impressive, and Karajan's recording, with changes for each of the major roles from one drama to the next, shows that he himself was uneasy with the results, and rightly. Marvellous playing from the Berlin Philharmonic is not enough.