{"product_id":"ruth-ziesak-paul-hindemith-das-lange-weihnachtsmahl-oper-in-einem-akt-4010228667622","title":"Paul Hindemith: Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl (Oper in einem Akt)","description":"The Long Christmas Dinner - Opera in one act, Libretto by Thornton Wilder, German version by Paul Hindemith, CD and 84-page booklet \u003cbr\u003eECHO Klassik 2006 within the category \"World Premiere Recording of the Year\". \u003cbr\u003eAs 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. \u003cbr\u003eContent: \u003cbr\u003e- Opera in one act \u003cbr\u003e- Libretto by Thornton Wilder \u003cbr\u003e- German version by Paul Hindemith \u003cbr\u003e- Recording of the German version \u003cbr\u003e- Booklet contains libretto in German, English and French","brand":"Wergo (New Arts International)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53445289673046,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/ruth-ziesak-paul-hindemith-das-lange-weihnachtsmahl-oper-in-einem-akt-4010228667622","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}