Editing Georg Solti (section)

==Recordings==
{{Main|Georg Solti discography}}
Solti recorded throughout his career for the Decca Record Company. He made more than 250 recordings, including 45 complete opera sets.<ref name=deccaweb>[http://www.deccaclassics.com/artist/biography?ART_ID=SOLGE "Solti, Georg"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103234448/http://www.deccaclassics.com/artist/biography?ART_ID=SOLGE |date=3 November 2012 }}, Decca Classics, accessed 22 February 2012</ref> During the 1950s and 1960s, Decca had an alliance with [[RCA Victor]], and some of Solti's recordings were first issued on the RCA label.<ref name=d />

Solti was one of the first conductors who came to international fame as a recording artist before being widely known in the concert hall or opera house. Gordon Parry, the Decca engineer who worked with Solti and Culshaw on the ''Ring'' recordings, observed, "Many people have said 'Oh well, of course John Culshaw made Solti.' This is not true. He gave him the opportunity to show what he could do."<ref name=patmore>Patmore, David. [https://www.proquest.com/docview/850692175 "Sir Georg Solti and the Record Industry"], ''ARSC Journal'' 41.2 (Fall 2010), pp. 200–232 {{subscription}}</ref>

Solti's first recordings were as a piano accompanist, playing at sessions in Zurich for violinist Georg Kulenkampff in 1947.<ref name=d>Stuart, Philip. [http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/decca.html ''Decca Classical, 1929–2009''], AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, accessed 22 February 2012</ref> Decca's senior producer, [[Victor Olof]] did not much admire Solti as a conductor<ref>Culshaw (1982) p. 88</ref> (nor did Walter Legge, Olof's opposite number at EMI's [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia Records]]),<ref>Schwarzkopf, p. 79</ref> but Olof's younger colleague and successor, Culshaw, held Solti in high regard. As Culshaw, and later [[James Walker (conductor)|James Walker]], produced his recordings, Solti's career as a recording artist flourished from the mid-1950s.<ref name=d /> Among the orchestras with whom Solti recorded were the [[Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra|Berlin Philharmonic]], Chicago Symphony, London Philharmonic, [[London Symphony Orchestra|London Symphony]] and [[Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra|Vienna Philharmonic]] orchestras.<ref name=d /> Soloists in his operatic recordings included [[Birgit Nilsson]], [[Joan Sutherland]], [[Régine Crespin]], [[Plácido Domingo]], [[Gottlob Frick]], [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]], [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], [[Ben Heppner]] and [[José van Dam]].<ref name=d /> In concerto recordings, Solti conducted for, among others, [[András Schiff]], [[Julius Katchen]], [[Clifford Curzon]], [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], and [[Kyung-wha Chung]].<ref name=d />

Solti's most celebrated recording was Wagner's ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen (Georg Solti recording)|Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' made in Vienna, produced by Culshaw, between 1958 and 1965. It has twice been voted the greatest recording ever made, the first poll being among readers of ''Gramophone'' magazine in 1999,<ref>[http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/December%201999/40/806832/ "Gramophone Classics"], ''Gramophone'', December 1999, p. 40</ref> and the second of professional music critics in 2011, for the [[BBC]]'s ''[[BBC Music Magazine|Music Magazine]]''.<ref name=solti100>[http://www.roh.org.uk/news/anniversary-of-sir-georg-soltis-birth-to-be-celebrated "Anniversary of Sir Georg Solti's birth to be celebrated"], Royal Opera House, accessed 15 March 2012</ref> This recording is heard in the film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' during the helicopter attack scene.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-i-tried-to-transplant-the-musical-heart-of-apocalypse-now |title="Nautilus Issue 30: Transplanting the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now" |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428183214/https://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-i-tried-to-transplant-the-musical-heart-of-apocalypse-now |url-status=dead }}</ref>