New to Wagner - Just purchased this big box set.

[Elgarian Redux]

My teaching assistantship at Buffalo was the Music History for non-majors, and the professor's prime example for Wagner was the closing scene for Die Walküre, so I've known where this was headed. Now, having seen the whole, I find it magnificent.

Fabulous. I'm so pleased the effort was rewarded.

[Karl Henning]

Just finished Siegfried. Now I know whence the Siegfried-Idyll. Highly gratifying. Separately: "May your end be blissful, immortal race!" A meaning of "immortal" with which I was hitherto unfamiliar....

[Florestan]

Separately: "May your end be blissful, immortal race!" A meaning of "immortal" with which I was hitherto unfamiliar....

Reminds me of these lines from a Romanian nationalist song:

The brave Dacians, immortal race,
Once ruled this land.

Makes one wonder how did king Decebalus manage to kill himself...

[Elgarian Redux]

Just finished Siegfried. Now I know whence the Siegfried-Idyll. Highly gratifying. Separately: "May your end be blissful, immortal race!" A meaning of "immortal" with which I was hitherto unfamiliar....

Hey, you are ripping along! Hoorah!
(Just between you and me, Siefried is the part of the Ring that I find hardest to get involved in.)

[Karl Henning]

Götterdämmerung Gotta say: I love the color of that  opening chord. I'm really just starting it. I've got a Henning Ensemble rehearsal at 6:30 and then my Utah première at 9:30.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Götterdämmerung Gotta say: I love the color of that  ooening chord. I'm really just starting it. I've got a Henning Ensemble rehearsal at 6:30 and then Mt Utah première at 9:30.

Three oboes, three clarinets, four horns, and a bass trumpet.

[Karl Henning]

Three oboes, three clarinets, four horns, and a bass trumpet.

Do they make bass trumpets anymore, or what is swapped in?

[Karl Henning]

The featurette, "The first Ring for television" is narrated by Twilight Zone veteran Geo. Grizzard ("The Chaser," "In His Image.")

[AnotherSpin]

Götterdämmerung Gotta say: I love the color of that  opening chord. [..]

I was reminded of Baudelaire's words on Wagner's music: "...it seemed to me that this music was mine, and I recognized it in the way that any man recognizes the things he is destined to love."