Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen recordings

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Den Ring soll ich haben..

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Option	Votes
Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the La Scala Opera Orchestra, 1950. Recorded live. Mono sound. [Music & Arts]	1
Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, 1958–1965. Recorded in the studio. Stereo sound. [Decca/Polygr	1
Karl Böhm conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1967. Recorded live. Stereo sound. [Philips]	1
James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, 1987–1989. Recorded in the studio. Stereo sound. [EMI Classics	0
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the Bayerische Staatsoper, 1989. Recorded live. Stereo sound. [EMI Classics]	0
Marek Janowski conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden, 1980–1983. Recorded in the studio. Stereo sound. [RCA]	0
Pierre Boulez conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1980–1981. Recorded live. Stereo sound. [Philips]	0
Reginald Goodall conducting the English National Opera Orchestra, 1975. Recorded live. Stereo sound. Sung in English, us	0
Hans Swarowsky conducting the Großes Symphonieorchester, 1968. Recorded in the studio. Stereo sound (Remastered in 1995)	0
Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1966–1970. Recorded in the studio. Stereo sound. [Deut	0
Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1958. Recorded live. Mono sound. [Melodram]	0
Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1956. Recorded live. Mono sound. [Music & Arts]	0
Joseph Keilberth conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1952 and 1953. Recorded live. Mono sound. Various labels.	0
Joseph Keilberth conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1955. Recorded live. Stereo sound. [Testament]	0
Clemens Krauss conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, 1953. Recorded live. Mono sound. [Gala, Archipel]	0
Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro della Radio Italiana (RAI orchestra and chorus), 1953. Rec	0
Günter Neuhold conducting the Badische Staatskapelle, 1993–1995. Recorded live at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.	0

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

oh crap. sorry, Barenboim. you're underrated, too :(

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I voted Furtwangler/La Scala, but only in the remastering on Gebhardt (crappy sound needs as much help as it can get).

I feel like Barenboim will have a good shot at the title when I get it.

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

it's really good.

i voted Bohm.
bold and brisk.
best singing.

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

hopefully, by the time i'm ready for my next cycle, Testament will have released the Keilberth in a single box.

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I really wanna hear that too. NYPL hasn't come through yet on that one.

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno. er,solti.

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Den Ring soll ich haben..

About this line.. Either M. Owen Lee or Bryan Magee was discussing the near impossibility of translating Wagner satisfactorily, and he cited this as the sole line he had encountered where no element of the original was lost. The original line, spoken by Hagen to Alberich in the Gotterdammerung dream sequence, literally translates to, "I shall have that ring." The transator (Andrew Porter, I think) rendered it:

That Ring shall be Hagen's.

It's perfect. Same syllables, vowel placement matches, and it even let's you keep the sinister, low-pitched drawing out of the final 'ah' in Hagen. I like to sing it under my breath when I'm walking around.

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 11 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for the Solti one, as I reckon it's the one I have. on vinyl. Must listen to all of them sometime. The first two are very enjoyable, though the third one's story is a bit tawdry.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 12 August 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 12 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

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