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Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel  | Brilliant Classics 94207

Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 94207

Barcode: 5028421942070

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 21st March 2011

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Contents

Artists

Gisela Litz
Rita Streich
Munchner Philharmoniker

Conductor

Fritz Lehmann

Works

Humperdinck, Engelbert

Hansel und Gretel

Artists

Gisela Litz
Rita Streich
Munchner Philharmoniker

Conductor

Fritz Lehmann

About

A welcome back to this famous recording with the great Rita Streich and Gisela Litz, from the vaults of the Yellow Label.

A skilful blend of Weber’s Der Freischütz, Wagner’s Meistersinger and Siegfried, it weaves a magical spell upon the listener. Conjuring up all the childhood fears of what lives in deep in the forest, and things that go bump in the night (this is after all based on a Grimm Brothers tale!), Humperdinck’s magical score is full of wonderful tunes.

The casting of a mezzo-soprano, as Humperdinck intended, rather than a soprano in the part of Hansel, means that there is more differentiation of voice here than in the Columbia (Karajan) disc…Rita Streich is very well cast as Gretel….That admirable artist Res Fischer is a much better witch than Columbia's Else Scharhof, really sings all of her part, instead of mouthing it, and is more sinister’. - Gramophone

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