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Wagner "Ring Cycle" on Piano Rolls
By Mark Williamson

Just out of idle curiosity, I wonder if anyone ever released Wagner's
complete Ring Cycle [Der Ring des Nibelungen] on piano roll.  The
"cycle" consists of four operas: "Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)",
"Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)", "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung
(Twilight of the Gods)" -- about 15 hours playing time in total!

I'm guessing that it may have been released on one of the Welte
formats.

Mark Williamson
Australia

 [ As George Bernard Shaw sardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted
 [ of the last opera Götterdämmerung: "And now, O Nibelungen Spectator,
 [ pluck up; for all allegories come to an end somewhere... The rest of
 [ what you are going to see is opera, and nothing but opera."  Source:
 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen  -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 1 Apr 2014, 20:00:43 GMT, from time zone GMT+1100.)

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