The Long Christmas Dinner
composer: Paul Hindemith
librettist: Paul Hindemith - Thornton Wilder
interpreter: Christian Elsner - Ursula Hesse von den Steinen - Michaela Kaune - Arutjun Kotchinian - Rebecca Martin - Herman Wallén - Corby Welch - Ruth Ziesak
booklet writer: Giselher Schubert
conductor: Marek Janowski
orchestra/ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Opera in one act
Libretto by Thornton Wilder
German version by Paul Hindemith
Recording of the German version
Publisher: Wergo
Edition: CD - 84-page booklet
Order number: WER 66762
Price: 24,50 €
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Description:
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:
Libretto by Thornton Wilder
German version by Paul Hindemith
Recording of the German version
Booklet contains libretto in German, English and French
Further information to this edition:
Inlaycard_WER_66762.pdf
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