Yay, No Singing !

This BBC Music mag cover disk titled Wagner Orchestral Music From The Operas duplicates much of the music on the one commercial recording of Wagner that I have, so I won't spend too much time discussing it. I've stated that I fall into the heretical camp that thinks Wagner is ok as long as it is much shorter and played without the singing and the politics. Music included here is from Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal, Rienzi and Lohengrin and the performances by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Sir Edward Downes are very presentable. But I still have trouble getting past the elephant in the room !