The Golden Ring

The Golden Ring

1965
1h 27m
7.0

7.0/10

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Documentary Music
Overview

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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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
BBC ORF
Production Countries
Austria United Kingdom

Keywords

music documentary

Quick Facts

Release Date December 26, 1965
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt6864388

Cast

Birgit Nilsson
Birgit Nilsson

Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)

Wolfgang Windgassen
Wolfgang Windgassen

Himself - Singer (Siegfried)

Gottlob Frick
Gottlob Frick

Himself - Singer (Hagen)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Himself - Singer (Gunther)

Claire Watson
Claire Watson

Herself - Singer (Gertrune)

Georg Solti
Georg Solti

Himself - The Conductor

John Culshaw
John Culshaw

Himself - The Recording Team

Gordon Parry
Gordon Parry

Himself - The Recording Team

James Brown
James Brown

Himself - The Recording Team

Christopher Raeburn
Christopher Raeburn

Himself - The Recording Team

Jack Law
Jack Law

Himself - The Recording Team

Erik Smith
Erik Smith

Himself - The Recording Team

Key Crew

Humphrey Burton
Producer
Humphrey Burton
Director