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Paul Hindemith: Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl (Oper in einem Akt)
Paul Hindemith: Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl (Oper in einem Akt)
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Description
ECHO Klassik 2006 within the category "World Premiere Recording of the Year".
As if in slow motion, librettist Thornton Wilder summarizes a series of Christmas dinners celebrated by the Bayard family over a period of ninety years and fuses them into a single long meal. The concentration of the characters and their standardization are all things that Hindemith's setting picks up on: he counterbalanced them musically by means of development, individualization, and variation - thus designing a kind of music that expresses contingency - significant coincidence - as an attitude toward life. The view of what Wilder calls the "mill of time" is thus always a view of the future as well - whether we perceive that as misfortune or consolation or both at once.
Content:
- Opera in one act
- Libretto by Thornton Wilder
- German version by Paul Hindemith
- Recording of the German version
- Booklet contains libretto in German, English and French
Product details
- Release Date:
- 2014-01-31
- Publication Date:
- 2014-01-31
- Publisher:
- Wergo (New Arts International)
- Languages:
- Published: English
- Height:
- 1.6 cm
- Width:
- 15.2 cm
- Thickness:
- 12.8 cm
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