Richard Wagner's Good Friday Music from ParsifalThe video is brief clip of a 1951 live concert by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler.I was five when it was recorded and it was the year I started school. There was no school holiday then and Good Friday was just like any other school day.The shops weren't overflowing with pricey Easter eggs either, because sugar was still rationed and chocolate was a birthday or Christmas treat. My brother and myself dyed hard boiled eggs and my father would help us draw on them. None of my family was good at drawing, but with the help of one of Dad's old fountain pens filled with Quink permanent ink, we managed to make our eggs identifiable.Each Easter Sunday the family had lunch at my grandmother's and magically, without fail, she produced a Simnel cake.

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