Hindemith / Ziesak / Kaune / Brso / Janowski: Long Christmas Dinner Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl
Hindemith / Ziesak / Kaune / Brso / Janowski: Long Christmas Dinner Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl
Format: CD
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Artist: Hindemith / Ziesak / Kaune / Brso / Janowski
Label: Wergo Germany
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4010228667622
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Einleitung (Introduction), (God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen / Weihnachtslied)
1.2 Szene 1 (Scene 1)
1.3 Szenen 2 Und 3 (Scens 2 and 3)
1.4 Szene 4, Anfung Von Szene 5 (Scene 4, Beginning of Scene 5)
1.5 Szene 5: Wie War Denn Gestern Abend Der Ball? (Scene 5: Did You Enjoy Yourselves at the Ball?)
1.6 Szenen 6 Und 7 (Scenes 6 and 7)
1.7 Szene 8 (Scene 8)
1.8 Szene 9 (Scene 9)
1.9 Szene 10 (Scene 10)
1.10 Szenen 11 Und 12 (Scenes 11 and 12)
