The Golden Ring
26/12/1965
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.
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Birgit Nilsson
as Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)
Wolfgang Windgassen
as Himself - Singer (Siegfried)
Gottlob Frick
as Himself - Singer (Hagen)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
as Himself - Singer (Gunther)
Claire Watson
as Herself - Singer (Gertrune)
Georg Solti
as Himself - The Conductor
John Culshaw
as Himself - The Recording Team
Gordon Parry
as Himself - The Recording Team
James Brown
as Himself - The Recording Team
Christopher Raeburn
as Himself - The Recording Team
Jack Law
as Himself - The Recording Team
Erik Smith
as Himself - The Recording Team
Humphrey Burton
as Himself - Narrator
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