Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Act 3 CD review – implacable intensity, startling singing

Nilsson/Windgassen/Frick/Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra/Solti
(Testament)
Two years ago, the BBC Proms marked the Wagner bicentenary with concert performances of seven of his operas, including a complete Ring cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Fifty years earlier, the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death had been marked more modestly at the Albert Hall with a single concert given by the Royal Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti. The programme had begun with Siegfried