In preparation for the San Francisco `Ring,' opening next week, I looked through the boxes kept since the '85, '90 and '95 events, and (re)discovered Glenn Gould's Wagner CD (Sony SMK-52650): -- Gould conducting musicians of the Toronto Symphony in the `Siegfried-Idyll,' the original 13-instrument version, in his conducting debut and last recording, 1982. -- His 1973 piano transcriptions of the `Meistersinger' Prelude, Siegfried's Rhine Journey, and -- again -- the `Idyll' (23:31 against the orchestral version's 24:29). It's a great way to get a new wrinkle on what has become old hat for some...:) [log in to unmask] (text only) [log in to unmask]