Calm Radio - Wagner

Calm Radio's Wagner channel is a strange gift. It's all Wagner, all the time. No palette cleansers, no Mozart sandwiched in. You get hour after hour of leitmotifs, heroic tenor lines, and that unmistakable Germanic orchestral weight. The programming rotates through the heavyweight operas - Tristan's longing, the Ring cycle's grandeur, Parsifal's mysticism. Occasionally you'll catch overtures and preludes as palate cleansers (ironic, given the source). The stream quality holds up at 128kbps; the low strings rumble and the brass cuts through. This isn't a station for the faint-hearted or the cas…