Valved ophicleide 

Low brass excerpts performed on a valved ophicleide built by Friedbert Syhre and Takao Nakagawa in 2007 (after Leopold Uhlmann, ca. 1850)
0:00 Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (1843)
1:05 Felix Mendelssohn: Musik zu Ein Sommernachtstraum (incidental music) (1843)
3:14 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (1843)
4:39 Friedrich von Flotow: Martha (1847)
5:52 Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller (1849)
7:28 Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (1851)
9:38 Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore (1853)
11:13 Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino (1862)
12:28 Giuseppe Verdi: Aida (1871)
Recorded in Berlin in June 2021, with the kind permission of Takao Nakagawa.
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