Comments on: Wagner’s Moments versus Motives http://www.zeitschichten.com/2010/01/28/wagners-moments/ A web magazine about music, history and the politics of culture Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:42:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan Schmidt http://www.zeitschichten.com/2010/01/28/wagners-moments/comment-page-1/#comment-24870 Dan Schmidt Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:09 +0000 http://www.zeitschichten.com/?p=1085#comment-24870 Agreed on both counts: Götterdämmerung is my favorite overall, but it's really hard to make it to the end of Act I in one sitting. Listening to the whole cycle in a fairly short amount of time really enhances the perception of the callbacks you mention. You might enjoy my attempt, for my own entertainment, to rank the acts of the Ring. It starts here: http://dfan.org/blog/2009/08/26/the-ring-of-the-nibelung-ranked-act-by-act-part-1-of-4/ Agreed on both counts: Götterdämmerung is my favorite overall, but it’s really hard to make it to the end of Act I in one sitting.

Listening to the whole cycle in a fairly short amount of time really enhances the perception of the callbacks you mention.

You might enjoy my attempt, for my own entertainment, to rank the acts of the Ring. It starts here: http://dfan.org/blog/2009/08/26/the-ring-of-the-nibelung-ranked-act-by-act-part-1-of-4/

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