October 21, 2012 marks Sir Georg Solti's centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years.In 1947 he signed

Wagner: The Operas

October 21, 2012 marks Sir Georg Solti's centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.

Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years.

In 1947 he signed his first contract with Decca - as a pianist and that same year he made his first record as a conductor (with the Zurich Tonhalle in Beethovens Egmont Overture). His last public concerts took place just a few weeks before his death in 1997 and were with the Zurich Tonhalle.

Solti was a musician with extraordinarily wide musical interests and sympathies and he was without doubt one of the most important opera conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. His legacy of recordings is dominated by opera and his recording of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen - the first ever complete studio recording - has been described as the greatest recording of all time [BBC Music Magazine, January 2012]

CD 1-2
Der fliegende HollÃ¤nder

CD 3-6
Lohengrin

CD 7-10
Die Meistersinger von NÃ¼rnberg (1975 recording, Vienna)

CD 11-14
Parsifal

Der Ring des Nibelungen
CD 15-16
Das Rheingold

CD 17-20
Die WalkÃ¼re

CD 21-24
Siegfried

CD 25-28
GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung

CD 29-31
TannhÃ¤user

CD 32-35
Tristan und Isolde

CD 36 - bonus CD
Tristan und Isolde Rehearsal - The Birth of an Opera
first released as a bonus LP with the original LP set of the opera

Der Ring des Nibelungen - orchestral excerpts
1982 digital recording
Country USA
Brand Decca
Manufacturer Decca
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 028947837077
ReleaseDate 2012-10-16
UnitCount 36
Format Box set
UPCs 028947837077
EANs 0028947837077

Country	USA
Brand	Decca
Manufacturer	Decca
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	028947837077
ReleaseDate	2012-10-16
UnitCount	36
Format	Box set
UPCs	028947837077
EANs	0028947837077

Wagner: The Operas

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