The second reason.

1 From this point until the end of the act.
2 Erda descends again.
3 The refrain recurs each time.
4 Wagner's orchestration is nowhere more varied.
5 Wagner puts many chilling passages.
6 Siegfried greets Gunther.
7 Then there is Hagen.
8 Towards the end of Siegfried's Rhine journey.
9 Siegfried disappears from view.
10 To modern sensibilities.
11 Götterdämmerung, Act II: "Schlugen wir Tiere, was schaffen wir dann?"
12 Die Walküre, Act III: "Den hehrsten Helden der Welt"
13 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Ein gemächlicher Schlag"
14 Das Rheingold, Scene 4: "Willig glaub' ich dem Wunder"
15 Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Vorspiel - "Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle!"
16 Siegfried, Act I: "Glühender Schauer schüttelt die Glieder"
17 Siegfried, Act III: "Wie des Blutes Ströme sich zünden"
18 Götterdämmerung / Prologue: "O heilige Götter! Hehre Geschlechter!"
19 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Blühenden Lebens labendes Blut"
20 Götterdämmerung, Act II: "Muss sein Tod sie betrüben, verhehlt sei ihr die Tat"
21 Die Walküre, Act III: "Der dich zwingt, wird dir's entziehn!"
22 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: "Nacht und Nebel, niemand gleich!"
23 Die Walküre, Act I: "Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell"
24 Die Walküre, Act I: "Siegmund, den Wälsung, siehst du, Weib!"
25 Götterdämmerung, Act II: "Wo Scharfes mich schneidet, schneide du mich"
26 Siegfried, Act II: "Aber wie sah meine Mutter wohl aus?" (Waldweben)
27 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Brünnhilde, bring' ich dir!"
28 Die Walküre, Act III: "Hier bin ich, Vater"
29 Das Rheingold, Scene 4: "Bin ich nun frei?"
30 Götterdämmerung, Act III: "In Leid zu dem Wipfel lauscht' ich hinauf"
31 Siegfried, Act II: "Wohin schleichst du"
32 Die Walküre, Act II: "Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!"
33 Siegfried, Act III: "Ewig war ich"
34 Hagen cuts the horn in two.
35 Götterdämmerung, Act I: "Was leckt so wütend"
36 Die Walküre, Act I: "Du bist der Lenz"
37 Die Walküre, Act III: "Der Augen leuchtendes Paar"
38 Die Walküre, Act II: "Doch Brünnhilde! Weh der Verbrecherin!"
39 Siegfried, Act III: "Dir Unweisen ruf' ich ins Ohr"
40 Siegfried, Act I: "Nun tobst du wieder wie toll"
41 Siegfried, Act I: "Mein Vater bist du nicht"
42 Siegfried, Act I: "Verfluchtes Licht"
43 Das Rheingold, Zweite Sz. . ene: Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild?
44 There is something Shakespearian.
45 When the excitement has died down.
46 Siegfried has been hunting.
47 When they have gone.
48 Then Brünnhilde steps forward.
49 The potion does its obliterating work.
50 When Siegfried reaches the summit.
51 The music that Wagner introduces.
52 The myths and legends of the north.
53 Then, in one of the most vitriolic passages.
54 With the return of Freia.
55 Under this spell.
56 The hut in which Siegmund has sought refuge.
57 What happens next is a black comedy.
58 The second reason.
59 Woglinde's melody is a lullaby.
60 Wotan, like many leaders.
61 When Loge first appears.
62 The first Act of The Valkyrie is unsurpassed.
63 There is a striking contrast between.
64 We are a long way.
65 The orchestral richness of Siegfried.
66 Throughout this marvellous work.
67 The curtain rises on Alberich.
68 Siegfried muses on what his father.
69 Wagner handles the scene.
70 Siegfried reappears from the cave.
71 When the curtain rises.
72 Ungrateful adolescents.
73 The baying of Hunding's dogs is heard.
74 Wagner the magician begins casting his spells.
75 Sieglinde, in her delirium.
76 The Ride of the Valkyries that opens Act III.
77 Sieglinde has left the scene.
78 Brünnhilde can't believe.
79 Siegfried appears suddenly.
80 Brünnhilde concludes bitterly.
81 Baffled by these developments.
82 It's difficult to imagine.
83 Act II has taken the drama.
84 Before the curtain rises on the final act.
85 He had loosened her helm.
86 Night has fallen.
87 In 1871, when Wagner was working.
88 Götterdämmerung ('Twilight of the Gods').
89 One of the marvels.
90 Gutrune's music is heart-rending.
91 Gunther lacks self-confidence.
92 Hagen seems to be remarkably.
93 Hagen hails him from the shore.
94 in a great symphonic climax.
95 As with the Ring, the subjects of Greek tragedy.
96 In the Ring's preliminary evening.
97 In the first Act of The Valkyrie, a solitary cello.
98 Hunding retires for the evening.
99 For the first time, in the moonlight.
100 Determined to obtain the ring.
101 As a young radical, he argued.
102 A gently undulating theme appears.
103 But all is not sweetness.
104 Loge enjoys one special advantage.
105 On this second day of the Ring.
106 Acts I and II of Siegfried.
107 It's not easy to convey.
108 Despite Mime's efforts.
109 Mime is now faced with a dilemma.
110 If the music of Act I of The Valkyrie.
111 Mime then tells Siegfried about Fafner.
112 In myths and folk legends.
113 Mime then imagines himself.
114 in June 1857 Wagner abandoned.
115 Before the curtain rises.
116 in his earliest drafts for Siegfried's Death.
117 Needless to say, Brünnhilde, on her return.
118 But we are getting ahead.
119 Heard in isolation, Sieglinde's music.
120 After her initial shock.
121 He kisses her gently on the eyelids.
122 in his adult life, Wagner came to revere J.S. Bach.
123 The Ring of the Nibelung is the largest.
124 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: "So weit Leben und Luft"
125 That was Loge's account.
126 There are numerous Beethovenian touches.
127 Das Rheingold / Scene 2: Absteig nach Nibelheim (Descent into Nibelheim) - Edit
128 This has its roots…
129 Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": II. Molto vivace - Edit
130 It is often said.
131 Let's consider one example in Das Rheingold.
132 Götterdämmerung / Prologue: Einleitung
133 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: "Höhnst du uns? Ha, wie unrecht!"
134 Das Rheingold, Scene 1: Orchesterzwischenspiel
135 Das Rheingold, Scene 2: Valhalla Motive
136 Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Loge's Motive
137 Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Tarnhelm Motive
138 Die Walküre / Dritter Aufzug: Magic Fire Music - Edit
139 Siegfried / Erster Aufzug: Vorspiel - Edit