Classical Top Five

Right, just because he , the worlds most famous German wrote more anti-semetic pages than music which
helped Hitler greatly is no reason to be upset.
With the Ring calling back to the real German  religion was a great idea as well.

Audio2design .... let’s not let facts get in the way of Schubert’s constant axe grinding. He loves his moral outrage.

I do like some Wagner quite a lot, but I just can't put him among my favorites. Part of the problem for me is that his stuff just goes on too long.  Eventually, a sameness creeps in.  There's also a pomposity that can rub me the wrong way.  Yeah, I do have my share of Wagner on the shelf. But apart from the Siegfried Idyll and the first side of Die Meistersinger I probably haven't put any Wagner on the stereo this century.