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.