Virginia Knight wrote:

>No one's mentioned Wagner's _Flying Dutchman_ overture/prelude yet - a
>particular favourite of mine.  (Apologies if they have - I had a backlog
>of mail to clear!)

Certainly a favorite of mine.  Esp.  recommend the Klemperer rendition.
Someone, I forget who, said that as one opens the first page one should
feel the force of the raging sea, or something like that.  I agree.

Alan