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ending music in Remourseful day


what is that classical music that plays when Lewis says good bye to Morse , which then dissolves in to Oxford???





these flies will enjoy Simalia but should they? Brasseye

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It's Wagner, obviously...

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WHICH part??

these flies will enjoy Simalia but should they? Brasseye

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The prelude to Act One of Parsifal, Wagner's last opera. He was dead within a year of its premiere.

Earlier in the episode Morse is surprised and delighted to find that Lewis is listening to this same piece in his car. Lewis mentions that it is a recording conducted by (Hans) Knappertsbusch (Morse has to correct his pronunciation.)

I'm not sure which recording it is but the 1962 live recording of Knappertsbusch conducting at Bayreuth is what heaven will sound like.

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"don't you think that's weird, your hanging round an old peoples home for fun"

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Parsifal was Wagner's last opera and features a dying king.

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