WAGNER’S ‘RING’ AND ITS SYMBOLS
The Myth and the Music With 200 music examples
By Robert Donington
Read by Michael Lunts
13 hours 33 minutes
‘This enthralling book is an examination – deep analysis might be the word – of Wagner and his great work in terms not of politics or merely musical values, but in those of the depth psychology which it is simplest to call “post-Jungian”. In a short review, one can hardly do justice to the patience and thoroughness of Professor Donington’s analysis, not only of the principal characters but of the enormous structure of symbol, irony and illusion drawn from the primordial myths, and relating it to the music which is so powerful and direct a language. Continue Reading →
