RARE LP BOX SET,RICHARD WAGNER,DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN

	£		205
	$		272

THIS AUCTION IS FOR:

AN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL 1965 12" LP BOX SET OF RICHARD WAGNER'S "DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN" WHICH IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION  - AND SIGNED BY BIRGIT NILSSON.

READ WHAT THE OWNER OF THIS COLLECTORS MASTERPIECE HAS TO SAY:

"THIS EDITION OF WAGNERS RING CYCLE WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS HUGE WORK WAS PUT ONTO LP. BEFORE THE ADVENT OF LP, IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN OVER 240 78RPM RECORDS TO ACCOMODATE THIS WORK. THEREFORE THIS WAS NEVER DONE, WITH THE RESULT THAT ONLY BLEEDING CHUNKS OF THIS MASTERPIECE WERE ONLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

RECORDING STARTED IN 1959 AND WAS COMPLETED IN EARLY 1965, SO IT TOOK SIX YEARS TO MAKE THIS ASTONISHING RECORDING. THIS EDITION IS STILL CONSIDERED TO BE THE DEFINITIVE RECORDING AND FAR OUTSTRIPS ALL THE RECORDINGS THAT HAVE FOLLOWED TO THIS DAY.

ALL THE ARTISTS ON THIS RECORDING WERE THE FINEST OF THEIR DAY AND TO MANY THEY STILL REMAIN THE FINEST CAST EVER ASSEMBLED FOR THIS MAMMOTH UNDERTAKING, OUT-SINGING ALL WHO HAVE FOLLOWED.

THIS TEAM WAS HEADED BY THE LEGENDARY AND RECENTLY DECEASED BIRGIT NILSSON WHO WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HER POWERS WHEN SHE TOOK PART IN THIS UNDERTAKING. SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY OTHERE SUCH LUMINARIES SUCH AS THE GREAT AND MUCH LAMENTED KIRSTEN FLAGSTEAD, ALSO HANS HOTTER, CHRISTA LUDWIG, AND WOLFGANG WINDGASSEN, FISHER DIESKAU, FRIEK, AND NEIDLINGER - TO MENTION A FEW.

OF COURSE IT HAS THE DISTINCT ADVANTAGE OF HAVING THE GREAT, AND SADLY MISSED, SIR GEORGE SOLTI AS THE CONDUCTOR, WHO PRODUCED THE MOST FANTASTIC SOUNDS FROM THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA NEVER TO BE EQUALLED, NEVER MIND SURPASSED.

I MET NILSSON ON MANY OCCASIONS AND ONE ONE SUCH OCCASION WHILE SHE WAS APPEARING IN LONDON TO DO A CONCERT AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL, SHE GRACIOUSLY SIGNED THE GOTTERAMMERUNG THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS BOX.

THIS LAVISHLY PACKAGED BOX WAS ISSUED IN 1965 WHICH WAS WHEN I PURCHASED IT, IT HAS ONLY EVER BEEN PLAYED ONCE. BOTH THE INDIVIDUALLY BOXED LPS, AND LIBRETTO'S, AS WELL AS THE OUTTER BOX ARE IN IMMACULATE CONDITION.

DUE TO THE LAVISHNESS OF THIS EDITION, NOT TO MENTION THE PURCHACE PRICE OF THE DAY, VERY FEW OF THIS BOX SET WERE EVER SOLD, IT WAS THEREFORE AFTER A SHORT WHILE TAKEN OFF THE SHELVES IN THIS FORMAT, AND REISSUED IN A MUCH CHEAPER PACKAGING, THEREBY MAKING IT MORE AFFORDABLE, AND ALSO MAKING THIS ORGINAL EDITION A TRUE COLLECTORS ITEM.

ALONG SALE WITH THIS SET ARE ARE A NUMBER OF SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRIGIT NILSSON, FIVE IN ALL THAT SHE SIGNED FOR ME PERSONALLY"

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