# Talk:Der Ring des Nibelungen (Georg Solti recording)

Very good article, but to me there is something odd about the first sentence of this section... Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 18:38, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Indeed. Truth to tell I broke off to check if it should be "children's" or "childrens'" and neglected to come back and complete the sentence. Many thanks, Mon Général. Tim riley talk 19:06, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
(I am always flitting around and forgetting to do the original thing that came into my head...) My other suggestions (not wanting to make work for you): (1) a few more photos (Solti and Culshaw c1960, significant singers (perahps in those 2 x 2 squares you often do); recording sessions are probably copyright), and (2) something on how the recording techniques refined during the sessions influenced the recording of opera more generally, at least at Decca. I had a quick look in New Grove (1997) but there is nothing about techniques, likewise in Opera on Record. I will try to find something else. Another thought: had Solti conducted a cycle in the theatre before starting the project? Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 14:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
Cg2p0B0u8m - good points, particularly the last. The answer is no. Solti says in his memoirs that the first complete Ring he conducted in the theatre was in the 1964-65 season at Covent Garden:  "Musically, I was at a tremendous advantage because by then I had recorded three of the operas and therefore knew the scores intimately". He had certainly conducted Die Walküre while in charge of the Munich Opera (Culshaw was at one performance and concluded there and then that Solti was a great Wagner conductor) but I can't track down mentions anywhere of his doing any of the other three on its own. Tim riley talk 13:37, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
"influenced the recording of opera more generally, at least at Decca" (my italics) - I remember reading years ago that the numbered squares on the soundstage indicating where each singer should be standing at any one point were carefully airbrushed out of session photographs released to the press, but I can't quote chapter and verse and nor do I know if other companies cottoned on anyway. Tim riley talk 13:47, 23 November 2024 (UTC)