WAGNER "Ring of Nibelungs,Twilights Of The Gods" Album 2, 78rpm HMV D1580-1587
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Wagner's Ring of Niebelungen, The Twilights Of The Gods Album 2, HMV D1580-1587. Selected Passages (In two albums) This is the SECOND ALBUM Eight 12" 78RPM records in original album cover Condition: E+ (records need to be cleaned) Album Condition: Fair Singers: Frida Leider, Friedrich Schorr, Gota Ljungberg, Walter Widdop, Florence Austral, Florence Easton, Lauritz Melchior, Maria Olszewska, Ivar Andresen. Orchestras: London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Albert Coates, Leo Blech, Robert Heger, Karl Alwin, John Barbirolli, Karl Muck and Lawrance Collingwood. With its total duration of approximately fifteen hours, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen was not a work well suited to the 78 rpm medium. The cycle was recorded in its entirety under studio conditions only after the introduction of magnetic tape. Had the Ring been recorded in its entirety on 78 rpm, it would have required approximately 110 double-faced, twelve inch records. Only two acts from the Ring were recorded complete on 78s, both from Die Walkure. Act I was recorded by HMV in 1935, on eight 78 rpm discs, with Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Lehmann, Emmanuel List, and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter. These recordings are available from this seller.
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