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vinyl LP front cover detail
cover Design – Bob Israel & Michel Goldberg
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
Today is the birthday of German composer Engelbert Humperdinck who was born on September 1, 1854, in Siegburg in the Rhine Province. Humperdinck's reputation rests chiefly on his opera Hänsel und Gretel, on which he began work in Frankfurt in 1890. He first composed four songs to accompany a puppet show his nieces were
giving at home. Then, using a libretto and thematic suggestions by his
sister Adelheid Wette, rather loosely based on the version of the fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers, he composed a singspiel
of 16 songs with piano accompaniment and connecting dialogue. By
January 1891, he had begun working on a complete orchestration. The opera premiered in Weimar on 23 December 1893, conducted by Richard Strauss.
vinyl LP front cover
cover Design – Bob Israel & Michel Goldberg
photo of album cover by Styrous®
Care should be taken to not confuse the 19th century German composer, Engelbert Humperdinck, with the 20th century British pop singer, Engelbert Humperdinck.
Hänsel und Gretel is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales (KHM 15). According to folklorist Jack Zipes, the tale emerged in the Late Middle Ages Germany (1250–1500).
Hansel and Gretel are siblings who are abandoned in a forest and fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of bread, cake, and sugar. The witch, who has cannibalistic
intentions, intends to fatten Hansel before eventually eating him.
However, Gretel saves her brother by pushing the witch into her own
oven, killing the witch. The children then escape with the witch's
treasure.
Set in medieval Germany, Hansel and Gretel has been adapted into various media. A contemporary reimagining of the story, the Mátti Kovler musical fairytale Ami & Tami, was produced in Israel and the United States and subsequently released as a symphonic album
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Side 1:
A Act I, Scenes 1 & 2
Side 2:
B1 Act I, Conclusion
B2 Act II, Scene I
Side 3:
Side 4:
D Act III, Conclusion
B2 Act II, Scene I
Side 3:
C1 Act II, Conclusion
C2 Act III, Scenes 1 & 2
C2 Act III, Scenes 1 & 2
Side 4:
Credits:
Conductor – Arthur Rother*
Design – Bob Israel (2), Michel Goldberg (2)
Conductor – Arthur Rother*
Design – Bob Israel (2), Michel Goldberg (2)
Erna Berger, Berlin Mozart Boys' Choir, Symphony Orchestra Of Radio Berlin* – Hansel And Gretel
Label: Urania Records (3) – UR-5212-2
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:US
Released:
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera
Label: Urania Records (3) – UR-5212-2
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:US
Released:
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera
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