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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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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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Fairy Tales Classics
Axel Köhler, Hans Maile, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Prague Festival Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Hans Vonk, Michail Jurowski, Helmuth Froschauer, Max Pommer,...
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Chris Newman: Ghosts
First Recordings
Chris Newman (voice)
Ensemble KNM Berlin [Kammerensemble Neue Musik], Steffen Tast
It’s naggingly memorable music in which the process by which the notes are generated – often an entirely non-musical one – has always mattered at least as much as the final aural result. —
