Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen- Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung

Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

With Vickers, Talvela, Janowitz, Ludwig, Stewart, Brilioth and many more.

German DGG stereo pressing from the early 70s.

Four separate slipcases and a hardback book in a massive slipcase box.

Where present, innersleeves have dates from 1972 imprinted. I assume that makes this a first pressing,

as Götterdammerung to my knowledge originally was issued in late 1970 and DGG might have considered

to first sell all the remaining single boxes of this recording.

Could be that the first boxed set of this seminal recording was issued as early as 1971,

but I’ve not come a across a copy so far that would substantiate that assumption.

This is a massive article! Weighs almost 8Kg without packaging!

Condition Box: VG+. Outer box has a bit of rubbing from storage over the decades, but really not that bad.

          Especially considering its weight!

Condition Slipcases: Strong EX. Hardly any detectable wear.

Condition Vinyl: NM. I couldn’t detect any spibndle wear on more than 2 sides.

          This probably has been bought to be owned, not to be played. Flawlessly presreved surfaces!

Condition Book: EX. Only the paper envelpe has wear. This actually is more like VG, with some rubbing and small cits.

            Without the envelope the golden bound book looks like new after more than 50 years. No foxing, no bad smell!

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A note about my record-grading:

I usually only visually grade the LPs under strong light and I only playgrade them ( i.e. the portions that seem to have signs of usage), if I can't be sure of their actual condition.
If records show stronger signs of soiling I'll professionally clean them (Okki Nokki RCM), but I'm not doing this if it's obviously only dust, as I know that collectors usually prefer their
very own way of record-cleaning.

My goal is to always decribe the records appropriately and I will name every visible and/or audible defect in my detailed description. If regardless of my precautions
you should ever be dissatisfied with the condition of a record, please contact me before leaving negative or neutral feedback to give me the chance to resolve your query.
I'm confident, however, that this will hardly ever be the case. I've been selling records for many years now and so far complaints fortunately have been the utter exception!

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