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The Tolkien Ensemble's Caspar Reiff (Part 1 of 2)

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Published April 12, 2022 4:00am

Caspar Reiff joins Billy & Dom to talk about how he transitioned from classical music to forming The Tolkien Ensemble, his relationship with Christopher Lee, how he got into Lord of the Rings, and plays a live LOTR jam with Billy!

Caspar Reiff founded The Tolkien Ensemble in 1995. It is a Danish ensemble that successfully aimed to create "the world's first complete musical interpretation of the poems and songs from The Lord of the Rings". They published four CDs from 1997 to 2005, in which all the poems and songs of The Lord of the Rings are set to music.<...

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