Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Remastered 2022) Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti

• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue:
• 1 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: Welch Licht leuchtet dort? (Remastered 2022) 07:46
• 2 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: Treu beratner Verträge Runen (Remastered 2022) 02:07
• 3 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: Es ragt die Burg, von Riesen gebaut (Remastered 2022) 08:05
• 4 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde (Remastered 2022) 06:36
• 5 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: Willst du mir Minne schenken (Remastered 2022) 05:38
• 6 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: O heilige Götter! Hehre Geschlechter! (Remastered 2022) 02:27
• 7 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Prologue: Orchesterzwischenspiel (Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt) (Remastered 2022) 05:57
• Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I:
• 8 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Nun hör, Hagen, sage mir, Held (Remastered 2022) 02:34
• 9 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Wen rätst du nun zu frein (Remastered 2022) 08:03
• 10 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Jagt er auf Taten wonnig umher (Remastered 2022) 03:43
• 11 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Wer ist Gibichs Sohn? (Remastered 2022) 02:02
• 12 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Begrüße froh, o Held, die Halle (Remastered 2022) 03:59
• 13 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Willkommen, Gast, in Gibichs Haus (Remastered 2022) 03:52
• 14 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Deinem Bruder bot ich mich zum Mann (Remastered 2022) 04:00
• 15 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Blühenden Lebens labendes Blut (Remastered 2022) 04:18
• 16 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Frisch auf die Fahrt! (Remastered 2022) 02:34
• 17 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Hier sitz' ich zur Wacht (Remastered 2022) 10:55
• 18 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Altgewohntes Geräusch raunt meinem Ohr in die Ferne (Remastered 2022) 07:18
• 19 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Höre mit Sinn, was ich dir sage (Remastered 2022) 10:31
• 20 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Welch banger Träume Mären (Remastered 2022) 07:05
• 21 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Was leckt so wütend (Remastered 2022) 01:40
• 22 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act I: Brünnhild'! Ein Freier kam (Remastered 2022) 09:05
• Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II:
• 23 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Orchestervorspiel (Remastered 2022) 03:51
• 24 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Schläfst du, Hagen, mein Sohn? (Remastered 2022) 09:06
• 25 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Hoiho, Hagen! Müder Mann! (Remastered 2022) 02:37
• 26 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Heiß mich willkommen, Gibichskind! (Remastered 2022) 03:51
• 27 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Hoiho! Ihr Gibichsmannen (Remastered 2022) 08:59
• 28 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Heil dir, Gunther! (Remastered 2022) 03:41
• 29 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Gegrüsst sei, teurer Held! (Remastered 2022) 04:29
• 30 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Einen Ring sah ich an deiner Hand (Remastered 2022) 03:17
• 31 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Heil'ge Götter, himmlische Lenker! (Remastered 2022) 05:31
• 32 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Helle Wehr! Heilige Waffe! (Remastered 2022) 03:00
• 33 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Gunther, wehr deinem Weibe (Remastered 2022) 03:11
• 34 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Welches Unholds List liegt hier verhohlen? (Remastered 2022) 03:47
• 35 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Vertraue mir, betrogne Frau (Remastered 2022) 03:25
• 36 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act II: Auf Gunther, edler Gibichung (Remastered 2022) 08:19
• Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III:
• 37 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Orchestervorspiel (Remastered 2022) 01:43
• 38 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Frau Sonne sendet lichte Strahlen (Remastered 2022) 04:40
• 39 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Ein Albe führte mich irr (Remastered 2022) 03:30
• 40 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Was leid' ich doch das karge Lob? (Remastered 2022) 01:22
• 41 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Siegfried! (Remastered 2022) 07:29
• 42 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Hoiho! (Remastered 2022) 03:35
• 43 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Trink, Gunther, trink (Remastered 2022) 02:24
• 44 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Mime hieß ein mürrischer Zwerg (Remastered 2022) 04:36
• 45 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: In Leid zu dem Wipfel lauscht' ich hinauf (Remastered 2022) 05:22
• 46 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Brünnhilde, heilige Braut (Siegfrieds Tod) (Remastered 2022) 04:10
• 47 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Trauermarsch (Remastered 2022) 07:46
• 48 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: War das sein Horn? (Remastered 2022) 02:35
• 49 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Hoiho! Hoiho! Wacht auf! Wacht auf! (Remastered 2022) 02:38
• 50 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Nicht klage wider mich (Remastered 2022) 02:05
• 51 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Schweigt eures Jammers jauchzenden Schwall (Remastered 2022) 03:45
• 52 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (Remastered 2022) 09:04
• 53 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Mein Erbe nun nehm' ich zu eigen (Remastered 2022) 02:32
• 54 Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act III: Fliegt heim, ihr Raben! (Remastered 2022) 08:43
• Total Runtime 04:25:18

Info for Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Remastered 2022)

Neuer 24bit/192kHz Stereo-Transfer. "Niemand hat Soltis DECCA-Ring in Schwung, Anspruch, Größe, dramatischer Unmittelbarkeit und schierem Adrenalin übertroffen" (Stereophile)

Mit Götterdämmerung schließt Wagner diese lange Geschichte der Schöpfung, erzählt in einem prächtigen Festspiel über 16 Stunden. In ihrem Schicksal gefangen bewegen sich die Helden dieses dritten Abends ihrem Ende zu, gefangen in der tragischen Zauberwelt und teuflischen Verstrickungen, welche bereits zu Beginn der Tetralogie angekündigt wurden.

Die Handlung beginnt bei den Menschen am Ufer des Rheins, kurz nachdem Siegfried Brünnhilde erobert hat. Die drei Nornen (Alt, Mezzosopran, Sopran) spinnen die Schicksalsfäden und zeigen sich über den Riss des Schicksalslaufes durch den Untergang der Götter besorgt. Siegfried und Brünnhilde trennen sich, nachdem sich zuvor nochmals ihre Liebe und Treue geschworen haben.

Beim Decca-Ring ging es immer um den Klang. Mit dieser neuen Übertragung der originalen analogen Masterbänder hat sich Decca bemüht, das Beste für Solti, für Culshaw und seinen Chefingenieur Gordon Parry und letztlich für Wagner herauszuholen. "Dies ist die bisher größte Leistung der Grammophongeschichte", schrieb Alec Robertson 1965 im Gramophone Magazin. Es war die perfekte Verbindung von Kunst und Technik. Solti und Culshaw stellten eine Traumbesetzung der führenden Wagner-Sänger ihrer Zeit zusammen, darunter Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick, Kirsten Flagstad, Régine Crespin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, James King, Lucia Popp und Joan Sutherland.

Birgit Nilsson, Sopran
Gwyneth Jones, Sopran
Lucia Popp, Sopran
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bariton
Christa Ludwig, Mezzosopran
Maureen Guy, Mezzosopran
Gottlob Frick, Bass
Gustav Neidlinger, Bass
Claire Watson, Sopran
Wolfgang Windgassen, Tenor
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti, Dirigent

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Sir Georg Solti
was one of this century’s most brilliant conductors and a leading figure of musical culture in Europe and the US. The great Maestro made his first recordings for Decca in 1947, as a pianist with Kulenkampff (Brahms and Beethoven violin sonatas) and as a conductor with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra (Beethoven Egmont Overture). He continued as an exclusive Decca artist for over half a century and leaves a vast legacy of over 250 great recordings - including 45 complete operas - chiefly with the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and the Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras. He won many international honours for his recordings including 32 Grammy awards - more than any other classical or popular recording artist.

Sir Georg studied piano, composition and conducting with Bartók, Dohnányi, Kodály and Leo Weiner at Budapest’s Liszt Academy. Although he made his concert debut as a pianist, he was soon engaged as a conductor by the Budapest Opera. In 1937, Toscanini selected him as his assistant at the Salzburg Festival. Before the outbreak of World War II, Sir Georg went to Switzerland as a refugee, turning again to the piano for his livelihood and in 1942, he was awarded first prize in the Concours International in Geneva.

Following the war in 1946, he was invited by the American military government to conduct a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in Munich. The success of this performance led to his appointment as Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, whose quality and reputation he firmly re-established over the next six years. During his tenure in Munich, the Salzburg Festival was revived and Sir Georg appeared there, as well as in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Florence and Buenos Aires.

In 1952, Maestro Solti accepted the post of Artistic and Music Director at the Frankfurt City Opera, where he remained for nine years. From 1961 until 1971, he was Music Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in 1992 was named Music Director Laureate. During his tenure there he achieved international fame for his performances of Die Frau ohne Schatten, the British premiere of Moses und Aron and Wagner’s Ring. With Decca he made perhaps the most famous single recording of all time - the entire Ring cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic. It took seven years to complete and was the first complete studio recording.

Maestro Solti's remarkable partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1954, when he first led the Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival. He returned to Chicago for guest engagements with the Lyric Opera in 1956, conducting Die Walküre, Salome, and La forza del destino. His Chicago Orchestra Hall debut took place on December 9, 1965, and his first concerts as Music Director were in September 1969. Maestro Solti served as Music Director for 22 years (1969-1991) and is credited with greatly extending and enhancing the Orchestra's worldwide reputation - its first foreign tour, in 1971, was under his direction. As Music Director Laureate he was due to conduct the orchestra’s 1000th concert at the beginning of October. Up until his death last year, Sir Georg’s performing schedule was as packed as that of a man half his age, and he had engagements booked up to the 21st century.

For his outstanding contribution to music, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain in 1972. From 1979 to 1984, he served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently its Conductor Emeritus. Maestro Solti has received honorary doctor of music degrees from Oxford University, the University of London, and the Universities of Durham, Leeds and Surrey; and in the United States from Roosevelt and De Paul Universities in Chicago, Yale and Harvard Universities, and the Eastman School of Music. He has received an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. An honorary degree "in disciplines of art, music, and drama" from the University of Bologna completes the list of honorary degrees.

As well as his record number of Grammys Sir Georg has received many other major awards. In 1989, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society, Great Britain's highest musical honour (previous recipients include Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini and Igor Stravinsky). He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music, London. In September 1985, Sir Georg was given the title of Professor Honoris Causa by the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. He also received the Knight Commander's Cross (with badge and star) of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany and the 1987 Loyola-Mellon Humanities Award. That year, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, Maestro Solti received the Medal of Merit, Chicago's highest award, and was honoured with the dedication of a bronze bust of his likeness in Lincoln Park. He also received the Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary and was named "Musician of the Year" by Musical America.

In 1988, he received the Edward Moss Martin Award from the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation in Chicago and, in 1992, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize from Denmark. In 1993, he received the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit with Star from the Republic of Hungary. In that same year to mark his 80th birthday, and a collaboration of over 40 years, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra struck and presented to Sir Georg as its first recipient, the "Hans Richter Medal". In December 1993, he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honour and the Belgian title of "Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold." In 1994, he received the "Ordem Militar De Santiago De Espada" from the President of Portugal, the country's highest civilian honour (the last musician to receive it was Stravinsky in 1954). He holds the French "Légion d'Honneur" and in 1995 received the "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres." In 1996, he was given the honour "Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy" and the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris established the "Solti Prize", to be awarded annually to an outstanding young singer. The first recipient of this prestigious award was American soprano Renée Fleming.

In October 1998, a little over a year after his death, Sir Georg Solti’s life and music were celebrated in a special concert recorded for TV and audio at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Mstislav Rostropovich, Angela Gheorghiu, Anne Sofie von Otter, Maxim Vengerov and Zubin Mehta joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the occasion, which also raised money for the newly formed Solti Foundation, a fund conceived of by Sir Georg just before he died with the aim of promoting musical education and helping young talent throughout the world. A plaque now adorns the Budapest house where Solti grew up. The conductor's ashes were interred in Budapest next to Bartok's grave.

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