Part of the Wagnerism Audiovisual Companion. Most audio samples are by kind permission of Pristine Classical.
Max Ernst, Siegfried der Drachentöter, 1912
p. 355: The Norns scene from Götterdämmerung.
The breaking of the rope of fate:
p. 360: A reconstruction of Loie Fuller's Fire Dance by Jessica Lindberg.
p. 361: A glimpse of Isadora Duncan on film.
p. 388: Isolde scowls at Tristan, in a passage read aloud by Rachel in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out.
Kirsten Flagstad in Furtwängler's Tristan (Pristine).
p. 395: Proust indicated that Saint-Saëns's Violin Sonata No. 1 was the original model for the Vinteuil Sonata, whose "petite phrase" lodges itself in the mind of Charles Wann. A plausible candidate is the sweet little melody that appears at 1:40 in the first movement, and recurs later in the work.
p. 397: Passages from the Good Friday Spell in Parsifal, culminating in Gurnemanz's "All creation rejoices, all that blooms and fades away."
Ludwig Weber in Krauss's 1953 Parsifal at Bayreuth (Pristine).
The entire Good Friday Spell from Harry Kupfer's 1992 production of Parsifal at the Berlin Staatsoper, with John Tomlinson, Poul Emling, and Daniel Barenboim conducting.
