It might be two and a half hours, but the next night is definitely four and a half hours. Night three is over 5 hours and night four is over 5 hours. So it's an opera in four parts. By Royce is the place where it's a special theater effectively designed by Gardner. It's in Germany, southern Germany, and I haven't been there, unfortunately, but that's where there's a festival
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 4:48
This, I think, phenomenal. See what you think. Of course, it helps if you understand what's going on on stage, but I won't distract you. So there, that is the end of that particular piece. Now, that is the beginning of a massive love affair around which you could say the whole of what happens next in the ring revolves. I'm going to play more pieces and we'll see what you think of it
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 5:00
I'm going to move you on now to a bit of music from the third part, which is called Zeg Freed. Very different sound. Owned. Well, different type of singer. Listen to this. There's nothing rushed in the ring
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 4:46
As I said, nothing is rushed. In The Ring, there are long passages during which an individual will sings. A lot of the meaning of what's going on is a combination between the music, which is playing, certain suggestions and associations underneath the words, if you like, and you will hear what are called light motifs. They're, I suppose you could call them pieces of melody that are repeated throughout the narrative of the opera
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 5:00
Well, here's something different from Wagner. This is run, Hilda. You can tell h*** she's beside herself, can't she? Thank you
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 5:00
Thank you. Thank you. It's probably well past midnight, so as the claws drifts away, I feel I've dipped into an extraordinary performance. The pace at which Napa Bush conducted was so easy to take in. Nothing rushed is the big thing I'm saying. I really do want to buy the whole set, but then I have to clear a weekend to sit and listen to it without being distracted. It so there you are