• 'Our English Monster-Man' [containing new research on the man who created the dragon and other props for the first Ring] by David Cormack
• 'The Mystery of Wotan's Missing Eye' by Michael Trimble, Dale C. Hesdorffer and Robert Letellier
• 'Music and the Unseen: Narrative Paradigms in Parsifal' [on the interaction of narrative and musical structures in Wagner's final opera] by Laurence Dreyfus
plus reviews of:
the Ring in Bayreuth, Longborough and Berlin, Die Meistersinger in Salzburg, Die Feen in Leipzig, Tannhäuser in Zurich and various productions in provincial German theatres
the Ring recorded under Franz Konwitschny at Covent Garden in 1959 and at the Metropolitan, New York, under Erich Leinsdorf in 1961–2
More At: The Wagner Journal
Bach’s Kantate BWV 171, J.S. Bach-Stiftung, St. Gallen (at the Kirche
Trogen), 10.01.2025
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Intended for the service for New Year’s Day in 1729, the Cantata BWV 171,
Gott, wie dein Name, so ist dein Ruhm (“God, as Thy name is, so is also Thy
prais...
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