21 October 2012 marks Sir Georg Solti's centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.

Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years. In 1947 he signed his first contract with Decca, as a pianist, and that same year he made his first record as a conductor (with the Zurich Tonhalle in Beethoven's Egmont Overture). His last public concerts took place just a few weeks before his death in 1997 and were with the Zurich Tonhalle.

Solti was a musician with extraordinarily wide musical interests and sympathies and he was without doubt one of the most important opera conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. His legacy of recordings is dominated by opera and his recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen - the first ever complete studio recording - has been described as "the greatest recording of all time" [BBC Music Magazine, January 2012]

Contents:
Der fliegende Holländer
Cast:
- Norman Bailey (Der Holländer)
- Janis Martin (Senta), René Kollo (Erik)
- Martti Talvela (Daland)
- Werner Krenn (Der Steuermann)
- Isola Jones (Mary)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Lohengrin
Cast:
- Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin)
- Jessye Norman (Elsa)
- Siegmund Nimsgern (Telramund)
- Eva Randová (Ortrud)
- Han Sotin (Landgraf)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Herald)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Cast:
- Norman Bailey (Hans Sachs)
- Bernd Weikl (Beckmesser)
- René Kollo (Walther von Stolzing)
- Hannelore Bode (Eva)
- Adolf Dallapozza (David)
- Julia Hamari (Magdalene)
- Kurt Moll (Pogner)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen

Parsifal
Cast:
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Amfortas)
- Hans Hotter (Titurel)
- Gottlob Frick (Gurnemanz)
- René Kollo (Parisfal)
- Zoltan Kélémen (Klingsor)
- Christa Ludwig (Kundry)
- Robert Tear (Erster Gralsritter)
- Herbert Lackner (Zweiter Gralsritter)
- Rotraud Hansmann (Erster Knappe)
- Marga Schiml (Zweiter Knappe)
- Heinz Zednik (Dritter Knappe)
- Ewald Aichberger (Vierte Knappe)
- Lucia Popp, Alison Hargan, Anne Howells, Kiri Te Kanawa, Gillian Knight, Margarita Lilowa (Klingsors Blumenmädchen)
- Birgit Finnilä (Eine Altstimme)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor

Tannhäuser
Cast:
- René Kollo (Tannhäuser)
- Helga Dernesch (Elisabeth)
- Christa Ludwig (Venus)
- Victor Braun (Wolfram)
- Manfred Jungwirth (Biterolf)
- Hans Sotin (Hermann)
- Kurt Equiluz (Heinrich)
- Norman Bailey (Reinmar)
- Manfred Jungwirth (Walter von der Vogelweide)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Sängerknaben

Tristan und Isolde
Cast:
- Fritz Uhl (Tristan)
- Birgit Nilsson (Isolde)
- Regina Resnik (Brangaene)
- Arnold van Mill (Konig Marke)
- Tom Krause (Kurwenal)
- Theodor Kirschbichler (Steuermann)
- Peter Klein (Hirt)
- Ernst Kozub (Melot)
- Waldemar Kmentt (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

Das Rheingold
Cast:
- George London (Wotan)
- Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka)
- Claire Watson (Freia)
- Set Svanholm (Loge)
- Waldemar Kmentt (Froh)
- Eberhard Wächter (Donner)
- Paul Kuen (Mime)
- Jean Madeira (Erda)
- Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich)
- Walter Kreppel (Fasolt)
- Kurt Böhme (Fafner)
- Oda Balsborg (Woglinde)
- Hetty Plümacher (Wellgunde)
- Ira Malaniuk (Flosshilde)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor

Die Walküre
Cast:
- Die Walküre James King (Siegmund)
- Régine Crespin (Sieglinde)
- Gottlob Frick (Hunding)
- Hans Hotter (Wotan)
- Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
- Christa Ludwig (Fricka)
- Brigitte Fassbaender (Waltraute)
- Berit Lindholm (Helmwige)
- Helga Dernesch (Ortlinde)
- Vera Schlosser (Gerhilde)
- Helen Watts (Schwertleite)
- Vera Little (Siegrune)
- Claudia Hellmann (Rossweise)
- Marilyn Tyler (Grimgerde)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor

Siegfried
Cast:
- Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried)
- Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
- Hans Hotter (Wanderer)
- Gerhard Stolze (Mime)
- Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich)
- Kurt Böhme (Fafner)
- Marga Höffgen (Erda)
- Joan Sutherland (Waldvogel)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor

Götterdämmerung
Cast:
- Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried)
- Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
- Gottlob Frick (Hagen)
- Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich)
- Claire Watson (Gutrune)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther)
- Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
- Lucia Popp (Woglinde)
- Gwyneth Jones (Wellgunde)
- Maureen Guy (Flosshilde)
- Helen Watts (Erste Norn)
- Grace Hoffman (Zweite Norn)
- Anita Välkki (Dritte Norn)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor