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100% Pure Analogue 180g Virgin Vinyl 3LP Box Set!
Numbered, Limited Edition!
DG's The Original Source Series!
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For his monumental Ring cycle, Karajan assembled a world-class cast of singers who possessed an instrumental tone and were able to deliver a vivid and clear declamation of the text. His Berliner Philharmoniker were more than capable of rising to the occasion. Karajan's Ring cycle stands apart from others with its more otherworldly approach, focused on beauty, lyricism, and structure.
This extraordinary recording project will now be released in the Original Source Series for the highest audiophile sound; for the first time, OSS will use the original stereo master — a two-track tape — as its source.
The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original multitrack tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.
Issued on 180g vinyl and presented in a deluxe 3LP box set edition featuring the original covers and lyrics, this limited and numbered release includes additional photos and facsimiles of the original recording logs and tape boxes.
Features
- Numbered, Limited Edition
- The Original Source Series
- 100% Pure Analogue
- 180g Virgin Vinyl
- 3LP Box Set
- Mastered by Rainer Maillard & Cut by Sidney C. Meyer Directly from the Original 2-Track Tapes at Emil Berliner Studios
- Original Cover & Lyrics
- Photos & Facsimiles of the Original Recording Logs & Tape Boxes
Musicians
| Berliner Philharmoniker | |
|---|---|
| Herbert von Karajan | conductor |
Selections
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Side A:
- Prelude
Scene 1
- Weia! Waga! Woge du Welle!
- He he! Ihr Nicker!
- Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!
- Lugt, Schwestern! Die Weckerin lacht in den Grund
- Nur wer der Minne Macht entsagt
- Der Welt Erbe gewänn' ich zu eigen durch dich?
- Haltet den Räuber!
Scene 2
- Introduction
- Wotan! Gemahl! Erwache!
Side B:
Scene 2
- So schirme sie jetzt
- Sanft schloß Schlaf dein Aug'
- Was sagst du? Ha, sinnst du Verrat?
- Du da, folge uns!
- Endlich, Loge!
Side C:
Scene 2
- Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn!
- Ein Runenzauber zwingt das Gold zum Reif
- Hör', Wotan, der Harrenden Wort!
- Schwester! Brüder! Rettet! Helft!
- Wotan, Gemahl, unsel'ger Mann!
- Transformation Scene
Side D:
Scene 3
- Hehe! hieher! Tückischer Zwerg! – Schau, du Schelm!
- Nibelheim hier
- Nehmt euch in acht!
- Die in linder Lüfte Wehn da oben ihr lebt
- Ohe! Ohe! Schreckliche Schlange
- Dort die Kröte! Greife sie rasch!
Scene 4
- Da, Vetter, sitze du fest!
- Wohlan, die Nibelungen rief ich mir nah
Side E:
Scene 4
- Gezahlt hab' ich; nun lasst mich zieh'n!
- Ist er gelöst?
- Lauschtest du seinem Liebesgruß?
- Lieblichste Schwester, süsseste Lust!
- Gepflanzt sind die Pfähle nach Pfandes Maß
- Weiche, Wotan, weiche!
- Soll ich sorgen und fürchten
Side F:
Scene 4
- Halt, du Gieriger! Gönne mir auch was!
- Nun blinzle nach Freias Blick
- He da! He do! Zu mir, du Gedüft!
- Bruder, hieher! Weise der Brücke den Weg! – Zur Burg führt die Brücke
- Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge
- So grüss' ich die Burg
- Rheingold! Rheingold! Reines Gold!
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