The Golden Ring

The Golden Ring (1965)

Released: 1965-12-26 Duration: 1hr 27min
Genres: Documentary Music
Rating 0.0

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.

Production Companies

BBC
BBC
ORF
ORF

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 0.258

Directed By

Humphrey Burton

Crew

Associate Producer
John Drummond
Sound Recordist
Norman Allen
Producer
Humphrey Burton
Editor
Inman Hunter
Associate Producer
Walter Klapper
Director of Photography
Peter Sargent
Director
Humphrey Burton

TOP 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

Humphrey Burton
Humphrey Burton

Himself - Narrator

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