Part of the Wagnerism Audiovisual Companion. Most audio samples are by kind permission of Pristine Classical.
The Parsifal prelude conducted by Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth in 1951. The image in the video is Paul von Joukowsky's 1882 design for the Grail Temple.
p. 157: In Act I of Parsifal, Gurnemanz says of the way to the Grail Temple, "Here time becomes space." The Transformation music follows.
From Krauss's 1953 Parsifal at Bayreuth (Pristine).
p. 158: A demonstration of various bespoke instruments that the Steingräber piano company manufactured for the Bayreuth Festival, with the aim of evoking the sound of the Grail Temple bells in Parsifal.
p. 159: The transition to the transformation sequence in Parsifal Act III, leading into Titurel's demonic funeral procession:
From Krauss's 1953 Parsifal at Bayreuth (Pristine).
p. 166: Vivien Greene, senior curator at the Guggenheim Museum, gives a brief overview of the world of Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de le Rose + Croix.
p. 167: Erik Satie's Les Fils des Étoiles, written for a mystical play by Joséphin Péladan.
A playbill for one of the ill-fated Salon concerts.
p. 170: Fernand Khnopff's cover illustration for Bruges-la-morte.
p. 171: The second version of Khnopff's Supreme Vice.
p. 171: Péladan by Jean Delville.
p. 173: Delville's Parsifal.
Redon's Brünnhilde of 1894.
Redon's Brünnhilde of 1905.
p. 174: James Ensor's Ride of the Valkyries.
Ensor's At the Conservatory.
p. 175: The "Phalange Wagner Fracassant" image from a sketch for Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889.
p. 187: An image from Yeats's Golden Dawn notebook, of the angel Auriel.
