De vierde gongslag by Hafid Bouazza contains four essays about classical music and a sample CD. Two essays are about the music of Leoš Janáček, notably his operas Jenůfa and Věc Makropulos. The third essay is about Puccini's Turandot and the first essay about Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. An excellent choice of music and inspiring essays, with a minor glitch of wondering why the sun should have masculine grammatical gender in German (likely an editor got confused by looking at the citation on the same page, that reads: Selig schien mir / der Sonne Licht, etc. ( )