This reissue is part of the first digital recording of Wagner’s Ring cycle which was released originally in 1983 and was conducted for Marek Janowski. The Staatskapelle Dresden is the performing ensemble for this recording, playing brilliantly for Janowski, who is a masterful Wagner interpreter. Gramophone wrote in 1997 of this recording, “Die Walkure introduces us to Jessye Norman’s involving Sieglinde and the youthful Siegfried Jerusalem’s near-ideal Siegmund, forthright and sincere, not forgetting Kurt Moll’s granite Hunding. Theo Adam [as Wotan] is so authoritative, so keen with the text, so inside his part…”
