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CD, Humperdinck (composer)
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Special offer. Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel
RecommendedRebecca Evans (Gretel), Jennifer Larmore (Hansel), Jane Henschel (The Witch), Rosalind Plowright (Gertrude), Robert Hayward (Peter), Sarah Tynan (Dew Fairy), Diana Montague (Sandman), Sarah Coppen (Cuckoo)
Philharmonia Orchestra & New London Children’s Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
What distinguishes this version is primarily the vigorous and large-scale conducting of Sir Charles Mackerras. —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2007, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Opera Recording
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Engelbert Humperdinck: The Miracle
Josette Micheler (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Klußmann (soprano), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Steffen Tast
Though Humperdinck's mastery with miracle music has been usurped by Hollywood, the music feels more familiar than clichéd, partly due to echoes from Hansel and Gretel. —
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My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Special offer. Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... —
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Karg’s angelic soprano – light and buttery – is perfect for this charming repertoire and she does it full justice in winning performances —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2021
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The Christmas Album
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (soloist), Christian Heiss, Johannes Berger, Hans Berger, Ilias Grau (soloist), Edeltraud Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra, Florian Helgath
It turns out that Appl’s contribution to the season of goodwill is as thoughtfully assembled as one of his Lieder programmes, and performed with the same level of care. The Regensburg boys are... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2024
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a genuinely touching, warm-hearted and classy example of the genre – and more imaginative in the choice of repertoire than most. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2023
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Engelbert Humperdinck: Der Blaue Vogel (The Blue Bird)
Incidental Music After A Christmas Fairy Tale By Maurice Maeterlinck)
Juri Tetzlaff, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Steffen Tast
The festive fairytale by Maeterlinck for which Humperdinck wrote this incidental music is read here in German, so you may want to find a translation online. Or simply head to Disc 2, where the... —
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Full and imaginative use is made of the Kelvingrove organ’s colourful registers, and the opulent magnificence of this instrument is well captured by Delphian’s recording —
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Imagination
Raphaela Gromes (cello), Daniel Dodds (violin), Julian Riem (piano), Arcis Saxophon Quartett, Anais Gaudemard (harp), Angela Chang (cello)
