The Golden Ring
1965 · 87 min
Documentary · Music
★ 7.0Watching 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.
Crew
- Director Humphrey Burton
- Director of Photography Peter Sargent
Cast
- B
Birgit Nilsson
Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)
- W
Wolfgang Windgassen
Himself - Singer (Siegfried)
- G
Gottlob Frick
Himself - Singer (Hagen)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Himself - Singer (Gunther)
- C
Claire Watson
Herself - Singer (Gertrune)
Georg Solti
Himself - The Conductor
- J
John Culshaw
Himself - The Recording Team
- G
Gordon Parry
Himself - The Recording Team
- J
James Brown
Himself - The Recording Team
- C
Christopher Raeburn
Himself - The Recording Team
- J
Jack Law
Himself - The Recording Team
- E
Erik Smith
Himself - The Recording Team
Crew
- Director — Humphrey Burton
- Director of Photography — Peter Sargent
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