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