Das Rheingold

Wilhelm Furtwangler - Wagner: Das Rheingold by Wilhelm Furtwängler at Milan (2023 Remastered, Milan 1950) (2023)

Wilhelm Furtwangler - Wagner: Das Rheingold by Wilhelm Furtwängler at Milan (2023 Remastered, Milan 1950) (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 148:36 min | 585 / 340 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

Although he took up the baton mainly for practical reasons and originally hoped to focus on composing, Wilhelm Furtwängler is remembered as one of the 20th century's most important, most argued-about conductors. The quasi-Brucknerian music he wrote is now of merely passing interest; Furtwängler was a truly personal, original artist only on the podium. He approached performing as a way of re-composing someone else's work, reconstituting it with a strong infusion of the performer's own ideas and personality. At their worst, Furtwängler's performances could sound mannered, full of sudden, seemingly unmotivated tempo shifts.
Sir Simon Rattle, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Sir Simon Rattle, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 142:44 minutes | 1,44 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Everything the conductor Sir Simon Rattle touches "turns to gold". Everything except for the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that is! It has often been asserted, albeit without good reason, that Rattle and Wagner do not go together. This has now been conclusively disproved by the third collaboration between Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, together with a team of the very best Wagner singers. This concert performance of "Das Rheingold", the first opera in Wagner's mighty tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung", was performed in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz on April 24 and 25, 2015, and has now been brought out by BR KLASSIK on two CDs just a few months after the live event.
Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti - Wagner Das Rheingold (Remastered) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti - Wagner Das Rheingold (Remastered) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:25:50 minutes | 5,91 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

""No one has surpassed Solti's DECO ring in momentum, pretension, grandeur, dramatic immediacy and joking adrenaline"
Wagner - RSO Berlin / Marek Janowski - Das Rheingold (2012, Pentatone # PTC 5186 406) {2x Hybrid-SACD // ISO} [RE-UP]

Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold WWV 86a
Tomasz Konieczny / Christian Elsner / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski
2xSACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 6,49 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Pentatone # PTC 5186 406 | Country/Year: Netherlands 2012
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Opera

"…Janowski's pacing and preparation of the orchestra is masterly. Reacting with sensitivity to the score, the tender & reflective scenes are given space to breathe without taxing the singers into strained tone. (…) The more one hears, the more one appreciates the vocal acting as well as the superlative orchestral contribution (make no mistake, there are at least 3 world class orchestras resident in Berlin today). This listener (at least) is eagerly awaiting the next installment of the Ring." ~sa-cd.net
Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold (L'Or du Rhin) (2013/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Wiener Staatsoper - Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold (L'Or du Rhin) (2013/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:27:53 minutes | 2,53 GB
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG), Official Digital Download

Das Rheingold (About this soundpronunciation The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.
Marek Janowski, Staatskapelle Dresden - Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold (1989)

Marek Janowski, Staatskapelle Dresden - Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 596 Mb | Total time: 68:24+70:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eurodisc | # GD69004 | Recorded: 1980

The Staatskapelle Dresden plays spotlessly for Marek Janowski … An excellent 'Ring' experience." Das Rheingold is dominated by Siegfried Nimsgern's vibrant, articulate Alberich, Peter Schreier's wonderfully vital, strikingly intelligent and articulate Loge and Theo Adam's experienced Wotan. But Fricka, the Giants and Rhinemaidens are all well cast, and the whole performance grips one's attention from start to finish.
Wagner - RSO Berlin / Marek Janowski - Das Rheingold (2012, Pentatone # PTC 5186 406) {2x Hybrid-SACD // EAC Rip} [RE-UP]

Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold WWV 86a
Tomasz Konieczny / Christian Elsner / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 628 MB | Full Artwork: 829 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Opera

"…Janowski's pacing and preparation of the orchestra is masterly. Reacting with sensitivity to the score, the tender & reflective scenes are given space to breathe without taxing the singers into strained tone. (…) The more one hears, the more one appreciates the vocal acting as well as the superlative orchestral contribution (make no mistake, there are at least 3 world class orchestras resident in Berlin today). This listener (at least) is eagerly awaiting the next installment of the Ring." ~sa-cd.net
Daniel Barenboim, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2009/1991)

Daniel Barenboim, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2009/1991)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 7.87 Gb (DVD9) | 154 min
Classical | Warner Classics | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Italiano, Espanol

This legendary Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', directed by Harry Kupfer, with designs by Hans Schavernoch, and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, is considered perhaps the finest video recording of these four operas ever made. For their innovative modernist staging, Kupfer and his team turned away from the work’s time of origin and located The Ring at a “road of history”, a meeting-place of past, present and future, which sets the scene for the story’s struggles of power and love. Barenboim’s authoritative yet highly responsive reading of the immense score and the extraordinary performances of the cast help to make this a truly memorable Ring.
Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2008/1978)

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2008/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 7.85 Gb (DVD9) | 144 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub.: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Here are Maurizio Pollini's compelling interpretations — paired with two now legendary conductors - of five piano masterworks performed with the Vienna Philharmonic at home, the Musikverein's magnificent "golden hall" In Mozart and Beethoven the camera captures the pianist's virtuosity as well as his empathy with Karl Bohm as they document the only two Mozart concertos that Pollini has ever released. For the Brahms concerto Pollini is joined by a young Claudio Abbado creating great music-making in which this essential repertoire is joyfully illuminated by two kindred spirits.
Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2013) MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2013)
PS3 Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 147:42 min | Digital Booklet | 8,6 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Digital Booklet | 3,49 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Digital Booklet | 3,14 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Mariinsky # MAR0526

The first part of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the shortest opera in the cycle, Das Rheingold serves as an introductory evening performance that opens the series, followed successively by three full-length music dramas, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Die Götterdämmerung.