Past legends are the best

[Harajuku]

Surprising that Wagner's Seigfried from the 1955 Bayreuth Festival grabbed an award at last week's Gramaphone awards. Judges usually favour new works. But I agree with this writer - the old gems are the best...

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[rojo]

Makes sense to me; why not?

 

[Todd]

Judges usually favour new works.

And they did this year, too. Siegfried won in the historic archive category, which seems appropriate.