Hansel & Gretel
Soloists, Staatskapelle Weimar, Martin Hoff, Conductor
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Soloists, Staatskapelle Weimar, Martin Hoff, Conductor
Description
A gigantic success story – Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel has been delighting young and old alike for exactly 120 years. To celebrate this special anniversary, the opera now for the first time is being released on a brand-new double
SACD featuring an especially authentic production. Since the Weimar Theater was the site of the work’s acclaimed premiere, and it has enjoyed an unbroken performance tradition there, the conductor Martin Hoff and his highly motivated team were able to draw on
the historical performance material.
The performance tradition has continued in Weimar ever since the celebrated premiere in 1893 with Richard Strauss as the conductor. The original orchestral parts of the premiere are still extant and carefully guarded. The German National Theater and the Weimar State Orchestra thus may rightly claim a special authenticity.
Tracklisting
Chimaera Trio
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
dogma chamber orchestra, Mikhail Gurewitsch
Yubo Zhou
Rainer Kussmaul, Sonja Prunnbauer
Trio Parnassus
Katharina Kammerloher, Arttu Kataja, Eric Schneider
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Marina Rebeka, Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid, John Fiore
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Amarilli Nizza, Fabuo Armiliato, Massimiliano Fichera, Alejandro Escobar
Rafal Janiak, Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Lodz Grand Theatre
Ewa Gawronska, Various Artists
Deryck Cooke, Georg Solti; Vienna Philharmonic
Il Divo
Thomas Sanderling, Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Malcolm Sargent, Mary Lewis, Tudor Davies, Maggie Teyte, Clive Carey, Marie Howes, Harry Plunket Greene, James Johnstone