Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen – review

Adam/Kollo/Altmeyer/Nimsgern/Jerusalem/Norman/Dresden Staatskapelle/Janowski(Sony, 14 CDs)Until the proliferation of Rings issued in the last decade or so from live recordings, the market was dominated by a handful of competing sets from the LP era, led by the pioneering studio version conducted by Georg Solti made by Decca from 1958 onwards. Alongside that cycle, as well as those under Herbert von Karajan and Karl Böhm, this East German one with Marek Janowski conducting (originally released i...

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