Richard Wagner (1813-1883)DAS RHEINGOLD (1854)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
Pristine Classical PACO089 remastering
Published 2013
Recorded Teatro alla Scala, 4 March 1950
FLAC, cuesheets, artwork
"Different restoration engineers keep improving the Furtwängler/Scala Ring cycle, and now that Andrew Rose of Pristine has gotten around to it, the result achieves a level that frankly I never thought possible... This is, in fact, a remarkably lifelike reproduction of a performance that when first heard decades ago on a poor LP transfer seemed like something one would never actually be able to take much pleasure in" Henry Fogel, Fanfare Magazine
Wotan Ferdinand Frantz
Donner Angel Mattiello
Froh Günther Treptow
Loge Joachim Sattler
Alberich Alois Pernerstorfer
Mime Peter Markwort
Fasolt Ludwig Weber
Fafner Albert Emmerich
Fricka Elisabeth Höngen
Freia Walburga Wegner
Erda Margret Weth-Falke
Woglinde Magda Gabory
Wellgunde Margherita Kenney
Floßhilde Sieglinde Wagner
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
Live recording, March 4, 1950, Teatro alla Scala