How many times have we found ourselves in a deadlock in the choice of a Christmas gift for our loved ones. All but one: Wagner. If you are Wagner, you compose an instrumental jewel, Siegfried's Idyll, for 13 instruments, as a birthday gift from his wife Cosima, who recently gave birth to little Siegfried. And it doesn't end there: you have it performed live, on Christmas morning, with the orchestra in the stairwell.
An indispensable gift idea, guaranteed success, as Cosima notes:

It's not hard to believe.