The conductor SirGeorg Solti recorded throughout his career for the BritishDecca Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, Decca had an alliance with RCA Victor in the United States; some of Solti's Decca recordings were first issued on the RCA Victor label.

Solti's first recordings were as a piano accompanist, playing at sessions inZürich for the violinistGeorg Kulenkampff in 1947.^[1] Decca's senior producer,Victor Olof, did not much admire Solti as a conductor^[2] (nor didWalter Legge, Olof's opposite number atEMI'sColumbia Records),^[3] but Olof's younger colleague at DeccaJohn Culshaw held Solti in high regard. With Culshaw, and laterJames Walker, producing his recordings, Solti's career as a recording artist flourished.^[1]

Solti's most celebrated recording wasWagner'sDer Ring des Nibelungen made in Vienna, with Culshaw producing, between 1958 and 1965. It has twice been voted the greatest recording ever made, the first poll being of readers ofGramophone magazine in 1999,^[4] and the second of professional music critics in 2011, carried out for theBBC.^[5]

For Decca, Solti made more than 250 recordings, including 45 complete opera sets. Among the international honours given for his recordings were 31Grammy awards – more than any other recording artist, whether classical or popular.^[6]

In entries below for operas, only the singers of the leading roles are listed. Where Solti appears as pianist rather than a conductor his name is given in the soloists column. Recording dates are shown by year followed by month, to enable sorting, using the arrows in the column headings.

Abbreviations:

• BPO –Berlin Philharmonic
• CSC –Chicago Symphony Chorus
• CSO –Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• LPC –London Philharmonic Choir
• LPO –London Philharmonic Orchestra
• LSC –London Symphony Chorus
• LSO –London Symphony Orchestra
• ROHC –Royal Opera House Chorus
• ROHO – Royal Opera House Orchestra
• VPO –Vienna Philharmonic

Awards:

• G -Grammy Award^[7]
• N- Grammy Nominee^[7]

• Culshaw, John (1982).Putting the Record Straight. London: Secker & Warburg.ISBN 0-436-11802-5.
• Peck, Donald (2007).The Right Place, the Right Time: Tales of Chicago Symphony Days. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.ISBN 0-253-11688-0.
• Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth (1982).On and Off the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge. London: Faber and Faber.ISBN 0-571-11928-X.

• Culshaw, John (1968).Ring Resounding. London: Secker & Warburg.ISBN 0-436-11800-9.

• Sir Georg Solti discography atMusicBrainz

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• Albums conducted by Georg Solti

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