'There is something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, full-toned, often ideally articulated reading... Like all the most satisfying sets of the Ring, it benefits enormously from being heard live in a theatre acoustic... Rita Hunter bestrides the role of Brünnhilde in a confident manner achieved in relatively modern times only by Birgit Nilsson, whose bright tone and effortless top Hunter's so much resembles. She is also a thoughtful, very human interpreter of the role, keen with the words and investing them with the right import. By her side Bailey confirms that he is as excellent a Wotan as any since Hans Hotter... Remedios's Siegmund remains one of the most sweetly sung and appealing on disc.'