Love the different energy. Dieskau: Hands in pockets, chilling, singing with that beautiful sound. Nilsson: Knees bent sitting on the breath, hands on the music stand, firing those lasers from her mouth. Frick: Manhandling the hell out of the music stand while bellowing that black velvelty goodness.
What more could one want? Nilsson’s laser- and lightening-sharp attacks of the jilted Brünnhilde, Dieskau’s noble Gunther-sound, and Frick’s dark and menacing Hagen!
For me one of the best interpretation of the vengeance trio ever . Gottlob Frick, Birgit Nilsson, and Fisher-Diskau are still unsurpassed in this excellent Solti recording
OMG! Nilsson at full throttle could have awakened the dead! She sheer mass and power of that voice has still not been approached. I heard her sing Brunnhlde, Isolde, Turandot, Elektra, and Salome in the theater and one's ears actually buzzed and vibrated. Nilsson and Flagstad: the Wagnerian sopranos of the Twentieth Century. There were some other great ones, but these two were the absolute ultimate. I still listen to them in humble wonderment.
This is an Historical document of the highest level. Not only does it confirm Wagners own genius, but how these 3 artists make the whole thing live, even off the stage. Solti doesn't miss a single punch kick or wack.The chemistry is palpable!
@mizzothify I have to agree with you on Fischer-Dieskau. He did make the role by combining a noble voice while showing the weakness of Gunter's character. I want to go home and listen to it all again now!
wow wow wow....what a truly visceral roller coaster ride. Some find Solti over the top and lacking subtlety but he drives the orchestra like Draculas coachman, always bringing out Wagners complex rhythms and undercurrents. we will probably never hear and see a cast of this caliber again.
This is the absolutly best, most formidable performance of this ens of Götterdämnerung att 3 I ever have heard! It was one of my firat recordings I made of the complete opera from the Swedish Radio, däringa the sixties- when it was newly released - on a tape recorder. I was a student with notorious lack of money - and no tape was longer than 4 hours during that time. And GÖtterdämnerung is longer … so - I missed two minutes of the end when I rapidly installed another, “clean” tape! I think it was around 56-57 years back in time - but I remember it like it happened yesterday!!! But to SEE the 3 artists - and the great master G Solti is really something very EXTRAORDINARY!!! I love it!!! Pär
Fischer-Dieskau sings Wagner beautiful and with warm colours.He was an incredible artist! I'm sure that Wagner must have liked this kind of romantic poetry.
@rumpwrestler I envy you having seen those performances. It must have been something! My exposure has been through CD and DVD only, I'm afraid. I suppose I am a bit closed minded, but while I've heard several versions, I think it is going to be a LONG time before this Gotterdammerung cast is ever bested...
Vocally this recording will probably never be surpassed. I kind of wish that Ernst Kozub could have learned and sang the Siegfried role, but I'm not complaining as Windgassen does a fine job.
What can you say about this? In general, I prefer Karajan's ring, but Solti's Gotterdammerung is just miles better. This cast is why. Gottlob Frick IS Hagen. Really outstanding!
Kein Anderer konnte den Hagen so grandios darstellen und singen als Gottlob Frick. Eine der besten Aufnahmen des "Rache-Trios" aus der Götterdämmerung.
@@jassenjj I have had the privilege of looking at a score of a major Wagner/Strauss tenor, now deceased, and it is amusing that he makes many notations you would see in a good chorus member. Including a place in red pencil COUNT!
Wagner's goals are often unreachable, which is the meaning of Mark Twain's remark that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. But this group must get very close!
I only saw Nilsson near the end of her career, but she was still thrilling. Only saw DFD once in recital, his singing so utterly different than Wagner. But I don’t like this set. Never did. Culshaw distorted everything, including the voices. Nilsson much preferred her other recorded performances as Brunnhilde. And I can say from first-hand experience that she didn’t sound like that recording; the voice was much warmer and rounded than the trumpet heard on the Culshaw concoction. That’s my opinion anyway.
About the singers there can be no argument, but some will always consider Solti a Technicolor vulgarian, who took advantage of not being German to insinuate himself into places where his talent would never have permitted entry.
Don't you think those singers were powerful enough to have arranged to work with another conductor if they did not care for Solti? I cannot think of 3 singers who would have been more in demand, the best in the world!
Love the different energy.
Dieskau: Hands in pockets, chilling, singing with that beautiful sound.
Nilsson: Knees bent sitting on the breath, hands on the music stand, firing those lasers from her mouth.
Frick: Manhandling the hell out of the music stand while bellowing that black velvelty goodness.
Birgit Nilsson as Brunnhilde, Gottlob Frick as Hagen, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Gunther. What a cast!
Love the way Solti just picks up the score and steps away as though it's all just a typical day in the office!
What more could one want? Nilsson’s laser- and lightening-sharp attacks of the jilted Brünnhilde, Dieskau’s noble Gunther-sound, and Frick’s dark and menacing Hagen!
Nothing:) Solti is the greatest ring ever recorded!
For me one of the best interpretation of the vengeance trio ever . Gottlob Frick, Birgit Nilsson, and Fisher-Diskau are still unsurpassed in this excellent Solti recording
Entschuldigen Sie: mit Knappertsbusch, Astrid Varnay und Hermann Uhde.
@@brunegilda2453
There leads no way from Nilsson to Varnay!
Birgit Nilsson is so incredibly amazing here.
Solti es grandioso. Fluye en los movimientos sinfónicos. Es arquetípico.
That's my opinion too. Frick represents Hagen into perfection. No one but him!
Really he was "The darkest bass".
What a privilege to hear and see this! Especially Gottlob Frick! He is The Man! The quintessential villain - there's no one better.
Yes but I also love his Gurnemanz in the Solti Parsifal recording from 1972
@@canalesworks1247 Yes, and his beautiful King Philip.
Gottlob walks that soundstage like a boss.
Solti must have been in heaven with those three wonderful singers, can't go wrong with this one!
When Gunther shouts out 'Wotan' is just amazing.
OMG! Nilsson at full throttle could have awakened the dead! She sheer mass and power of that voice has still not been approached. I heard her sing Brunnhlde, Isolde, Turandot, Elektra, and Salome in the theater and one's ears actually buzzed and vibrated. Nilsson and Flagstad: the Wagnerian sopranos of the Twentieth Century. There were some other great ones, but these two were the absolute ultimate. I still listen to them in humble wonderment.
Absolutely surreal to see the greatest recording of the greatest piece of music being recorded in casual clothes. Love it.
I love how relaxed and unconcerned they all are whenever they are not singing
OUTSTANDING INTERPRETATION ..SOLTI WAS ONE OF THE TRUE WAGNER'S CONDUCTORS OF THE MUSIC ERA.....
Nilsson is superhuman here. Ironic in that Brunnhilde is no longer a goddess in this last of Wagner's operas
Still the greatest performance of this breathtaking music...Wagner at his best. He is so great!!
Actually breathless after watching this.
This is an Historical document of the highest level. Not only does it confirm Wagners own genius, but how these 3 artists make the whole thing live, even off the stage. Solti doesn't miss a single punch kick or wack.The chemistry is palpable!
3:35 - 4:08 Vocal goddess personified.
@mizzothify I have to agree with you on Fischer-Dieskau. He did make the role by combining a noble voice while showing the weakness of Gunter's character. I want to go home and listen to it all again now!
This is opera at it's grandest!
Stimulator7 PRECISELY!
wow wow wow....what a truly visceral roller coaster ride. Some find Solti over the top and lacking subtlety but he drives the orchestra like Draculas coachman, always bringing out Wagners complex rhythms and undercurrents. we will probably never hear and see a cast of this caliber again.
Where have the great Wagnerian voices gone? This is thrilling beyond belief!
Fischer-Dieskau as always unique and unsurpassed.
Best "Vengeance Trio" EVER!
Electrifying, especially towards the end. A magnificent trio.
Unbelievable intense. A historic recording. Waauw.
That music is so so intense. Bravo!! Brigitte's Nillson takes it to another level. Her voice can reach the heavens.
6:56 *BUM!* Solti: okay come on let's go home
Nilsson extraordinaria, su boz impecable, proyección perfecta y la voz bella!!! Insuperable!!!!
Götterdämmerung. Zweiter Aufzug, Fünfte Szene. Brünnhilde, Hagen ,Gunther. Wunderbar! Sir George Solti! Dirigent.
Dir hilft kein hirn! The best of the best! The recording I grew up on!!
6:58 Georg Solti und wir wissen, dass es Perfektion gibt und dass dem nichts mehr hinzuzufügen ist.
This is the absolutly best, most formidable performance of this ens of Götterdämnerung att 3 I ever have heard! It was one of my firat recordings I made of the complete opera from the Swedish Radio, däringa the sixties- when it was newly released - on a tape recorder. I was a student with notorious lack of money - and no tape was longer than 4 hours during that time. And GÖtterdämnerung is longer … so - I missed two minutes of the end when I rapidly installed another, “clean” tape! I think it was around 56-57 years back in time - but I remember it like it happened yesterday!!! But to SEE the 3 artists - and the great master G Solti is really something very EXTRAORDINARY!!! I love it!!! Pär
Wooootaaaaaaan !
Wende dich heeeer !! Wootaan !!!
Was für ein Dokument. Trotz Studioatmosphäre fast Bühne.
Schaurig schön, spannend, "nachtschwarz"..
Vielen, vielen Dank!!!
GLORIOUS !!
Fischer-Dieskau sings Wagner beautiful and with warm colours.He was an incredible artist! I'm sure that Wagner must have liked this kind of romantic poetry.
Fischer-Dieskau ranks alongside Robert Merrill, Sherrill Milne's and Thomas Hampson as one of the greatest operatic baritones of all time.
Astounding!
Simply Superb !
Goosebumps , the absolute best recording of the Ring. Amazing~!
UNA JOYA IRREPETIBLE !!!! MARAVILLOSO !!!!!
Absolutely fantastic!!!
Perfect
seeing these artists, sing this exact recording, known so well, is beyond words
Me, too. Have heard them for years. Being able to see them is magical!
Exactly my thoughts, wow!
The "wobble" in Frick's big dark bass makes his Hagen wonderfully evil.
Antologico !! Muchas gracias.
Great singing by Nilsson, Frick and Fischer-Dieskau and great orchestral work by the Vienna Philharmonic under the legendary Sir Georg Solti!
I love that Solti gave us as much or more intensity in his conducting than he wouldve given us in the concert or opera house in the recording studio.
And Frick was pushing age 60 in this recording. Love their body language - totally freed from the conventions of opera acting, they ARE the music.
Tremendous!
@rumpwrestler I envy you having seen those performances. It must have been something! My exposure has been through CD and DVD only, I'm afraid. I suppose I am a bit closed minded, but while I've heard several versions, I think it is going to be a LONG time before this Gotterdammerung cast is ever bested...
Vocally this recording will probably never be surpassed. I kind of wish that Ernst Kozub could have learned and sang the Siegfried role, but I'm not complaining as Windgassen does a fine job.
This is amazing and well done!
What can you say about this? In general, I prefer Karajan's ring, but Solti's Gotterdammerung is just miles better. This cast is why. Gottlob Frick IS Hagen. Really outstanding!
Kein Anderer konnte den Hagen so grandios darstellen und singen als Gottlob Frick. Eine der besten Aufnahmen des "Rache-Trios" aus der Götterdämmerung.
This is total Hardcore ❤
First level !
around 5:00 you see Fischer Dieskau's famous chest puff posture very clearly.
Is it me, or you can see Nilsson counting the beats in her right hand fingers before her entrance at 3:46?
Christophe Horton She was the best of all time
Sometimes counting helps :)
In the end all that counts is the final results of the product in question.
@@jassenjj I have had the privilege of looking at a score of a major Wagner/Strauss tenor, now deceased, and it is amusing that he makes many notations you would see in a good chorus member. Including a place in red pencil COUNT!
Fischer-Dieskau smiling at 4:13! I wonder what Nilsson was doing...
Wagner's goals are often unreachable, which is the meaning of Mark Twain's remark that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. But this group must get very close!
Is that from "The Golden Ring" documentary?
It is indeed!
Fischy D is on fire
불교가 말하는 윤회가 정말 있다면 숄티 같은 지휘자로 다시 태어나고 싶다.
Sorry for some misspellings in my comment below!!! Pär
Meiner Ansicht nach war Fischer-D. ein sehr guter Sänger, aber Opernrollen meist ungeeignet - so auch hier.
I only saw Nilsson near the end of her career, but she was still thrilling. Only saw DFD once in recital, his singing so utterly different than Wagner. But I don’t like this set. Never did. Culshaw distorted everything, including the voices. Nilsson much preferred her other recorded performances as Brunnhilde. And I can say from first-hand experience that she didn’t sound like that recording; the voice was much warmer and rounded than the trumpet heard on the Culshaw concoction. That’s my opinion anyway.
Poor Dietrich he should have been singers agent
I find Siegmund much more interesting.
About the singers there can be no argument, but some will always consider Solti a Technicolor vulgarian, who took advantage of not being German to insinuate himself into places where his talent would never have permitted entry.
You're spoiling the party, Ransom
Don't you think those singers were powerful enough to have arranged to work with another conductor if they did not care for Solti? I cannot think of 3 singers who would have been more in demand, the best in the world!
Is Solti doing interpretive dancing? Because, if he is, I don't like it.
It works for me, and the singers seem to be happy with it. (3 of the world's greatest ever!)
simply excellent, wonderful