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Late in the afternoon of 19 November, 1965 – a Friday – the Hungarian conductor Georg Solti steered the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra through the placid concluding measures of Wagner’s Die Walküre, the final downbeat landing at precisely 5.30pm. It was the end of an epic journey to make the first complete studio recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, a cycle of four operas lasting 15 hours in total.

Who was Georg Solti?

Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British conductor of both orchestral and operatic music, best known both for his opera conducting with orchestras in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and for his long and highly successful spell as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The complete Wagner Ring cycle still stands as one of his greatest achievements, alongside complete Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler symphony cycles in Chicago.

That journey had started seven years earlier on 24 September, 1958, when sessions to record Das Rheingold – the curtain-raiser to Wagner’s tetralogy – began in the Sofiensaal, Vienna, a converted 19th-century steam bath known for excellent acoustics. The road to that opening session had, however, itself been difficult. Decca, the company making the recording, needed considerable persuasion that a complete Ring cycle made sense commercially. Would enough copies ever be sold, they wondered, to cover the enormous financial investment required to complete the project?

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When Das Rheingold was eventually released as a three-LP boxed set in March 1959 (price £6), Decca executives got their answer. The critics raved about the new recording and, crucially, it began selling in substantial numbers globally, even becoming a popular hit in the US. ‘There it was in the Billboard charts of the best-selling LP albums,’ reported Rheingold’s producer John Culshaw, ‘surrounded by Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, and without another classical recording in sight.’

Who was John Culshaw?

Culshaw himself was a major reason why Das Rheingold was so stunningly triumphant. Seeing exciting possibilities in the new technology of twin-channel, stereophonic recording, he totally rethought how opera should be presented to the armchair listener. Culshaw’s ‘theatre of the mind’ involved careful placement of singers across the stereo spectrum, mimicking stage positions and movements.

Decca to release new high-definition transfer of George Solti's 'Ring Cycle' recordings

Wagner’s own directions were a crucial point of departure in Culshaw’s calculations. The score of Das Rheingold requires 18 tuned anvils for the Nibelheim episode, a stipulation usually ignored in the theatre. Culshaw took it seriously: 18 anvils were duly found, and 18 players hired to hit them. The thunderclap heralding Rheingold’s final scene also got the Culshaw treatment, and was one of several ‘sound effects’ rendered with unprecedented fidelity on the finished recording.

Decca producer John Culshaw played a key role in the recordings

Decca producer John Culshaw played a key role in the recordings. Pic: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

What is the best 'Ring' cycle?

The recordings from Solti and the VPO are good candidates for a 'Ring' cycle best recording. Das Rheingold’s commercial success induced Decca to sanction a continuation of the Ring project, and recordings of Siegfried (1962), Götterdämmerung (1964) and Die Walküre (1965) followed. Acclaim for each instalment was again virtually universal, many commentators acknowledging that entirely new standards were being set both artistically and sonically in the presentation of opera on record.

One critic hailed Siegfried as ‘the finest recording, as such, of opera that we have had so far’. In Götterdämmerung, Culshaw had special steerhorns made for Act Two, adding to what one reviewer called ‘the alchemy of Decca's magnificent, stunning, overwhelming new recording’.

Which singers performed in the Solti / Vienna Phil 'Ring' cycle?

Perhaps the biggest factor of all in the Decca Ring’s success was the outstanding quality of the singers. Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Gustav Neidlinger, Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Christa Ludwig, Régine Crespin, Gottlob Frick – all featured prominently, drawn from a classic generation of post-war Wagner performers. Culshaw’s ‘incomparable engineers’ (as The Times called them), led by Gordon Parry, also played a crucial role in capturing performances which, in their extremes of dynamic and expression, often severely stretched the analogue tape technology of the period

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Pt.3 of Worldbuilding

Second half of the cities!

16 - Lastholde

Military town

Not many people live here anymore

Usually used as a rest point for traders coming from Larchpoint and Birchenfall to the mainland

17 - Lavandula

Lavender; means love and devotion

Haru and others stay here very briefly

18 - Mainen’s Sanctum

Safe haven for mainen

Able to stay safe and mostly hidden for mainen who might be persecuted

People from Velvetshield like to do trade here

Where Heike is from

19 - Mitrumire

Based off of Mitrula paludosa aka swamp beacon; a mushroom found in swamps

Major trade center in the swamp region

20 - Mossvale 

Starting town

Located in the taiga region

Moss means charity

21 - Ranadrift

Ranunculus; rana means “little frog”

Abundance of frogs here

Fairly small village that has a river running right through it

22 - Rosemallow

Hibiscus; Consumed by Love, Delicate Beauty

Major exporter of coffee and honey

Lands are rich with soil perfect for growing flowers and other crops

Close in proximity to Mt. Strelitza

23 - Saltport

Main port city

Extremely diverse city

Pass through city for those going either north (to Aeskmanna) or south (to Alstonia area)

24- Sedgeford

Sedge is a grass-like plant

Sedges can grow in tropical areas but the family includes grasses that live in colder regions

Very small arctic fishing village

A few arctic druids live here

They came over from Bearpass

25 - Shroudglen

Shady pass through town

Port city for those coming from the northeast land mass

Mercenaries pass through here frequently

26 - Starmaw

City where most astronomical studies are based

Large population of wizards and sorcerers

27 - Steepdrift

Mining town at the base of the Edel Highlands

Directly next to the Primwillow Basin

Exports lots of ore and even some animal products

28 - Steerhorne

Shepherding town that exports lots of animal products

Settlement was originally established by people from Fleececairn

Two cities have a strong trading alliance

29 - Stonecrop 

A flower; means tranquility

Town northwest of Briskbridge

A very peaceful town that lives in obscurity

30 - Sunsole

Heliotrope; devotion

Haru has realization that he likes his companions and wants to stay with them while here

31 - Velvetshield

Iris (specifically snake’s head iris); Faith, Wisdom, Promise in Love, Hope, Wisdom & Valor

Where Evren’s dad is from

He would visit as a kid

Lots of snakes here

Mainen like to live here since it’s safe for them

32 - Wildehallow

Somewhat religious town 

Related slightly to mountain druids

A small line of druids lives here in society albeit somewhat secretively

33 - Wistervine

Wisteria; means welcome

Where Devnet and Oisin met

Absolutely filled with the influence of druidic magic, however no druids truly live here

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