The Golden Ring

The Golden Ring (1965)


  • Genre: Documentary, Music
  • Release Date: 1965-12-26
  • Runtime: 1h 27min
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: Austria, United Kingdom
  • Director: Humphrey Burton

Summary

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.

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  • Birgit Nilsson

    as Herself - Singer (Brunhilde)

  • Wolfgang Windgassen

    as Himself - Singer (Siegfried)

  • Gottlob Frick

    as Himself - Singer (Hagen)

  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    as Himself - Singer (Gunther)

  • Claire Watson

    as Herself - Singer (Gertrune)

  • Georg Solti

    as Himself - The Conductor

  • John Culshaw

    as Himself - The Recording Team

  • Gordon Parry

    as Himself - The Recording Team

  • James Brown

    as Himself - The Recording Team

  • Christopher Raeburn

    as Himself - The Recording Team

  • Jack Law

    as Himself - The Recording Team

  • Erik Smith

    as Himself - The Recording Team

  • Humphrey Burton

    as Himself - Narrator
Camera Peter Sargent Director of Photography
Sound Norman Allen Sound Recordist
Editing Inman Hunter Editor
Production John Drummond Associate Producer
Production Walter Klapper Associate Producer
Production Humphrey Burton Producer
Directing Humphrey Burton Director

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