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Since I’m on a roll, and I already feel like someone’s trying to Lull us to sleep while we read our newly revised and politically sensitive Dr. Seuss Stories, Allow me to confront you with something I dare you to actually listen to. It’s political, full of the composer’s antipathy at having his wife go astray, and extensively marinated in the sort of Profligate Rebellious Spirit that tore it’s way through Europe in1948 and onward. [In which the composer participated by the way] so there you go, a Genius is very often. Mad.

Great music isn’t always a homily, sometimes it’s being picked up bodily, held against the wall and made to consider the metaphysical implications of being human, and having a responsibility to engage in making your culture – your own Damn Self. And with that I give you the single best recording of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

Enter At your own risk !

Der Ring des Nibelungen. Sols; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Georg Solti. .

Manufacturer : Decca
SPARS Code : ADD
Date First Available : December 7, 2006
Label : Decca
ASIN : B0000042H4
Number of discs : 14
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