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The Long Christmas Dinner
Opera in one act
Libretto by Thornton Wilder
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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.
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
Libretto by Thornton Wilder
German version by Paul Hindemith
Recording of the German version
Booklet contains libretto in German, English and French
Performers
Ruth Ziesak: soprano (Lucia, Lucia II) / Ursula Hesse von den Steinen: alto (Mother Bayard, Ermengarde) / Herman Wallén: baritone (Roderick, Sam) / Arutjun Kotchinian: bass (Brandon) / Christian Elsner: tenor (Charles) / Rebecca Martin: mezzo-soprano (Genevieve) / Michaela Kaune: high soprano (Leonora) / Corby Welch: tenor (Roderick II) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski: conductor
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Title:
The Long Christmas Dinner
Opera in one act
Libretto by Thornton Wilder
German version by Paul Hindemith
Recording of the German version
Awards:

Oct 22, 2006
Echo Klassik 2006
World Premiere Recording of the Year
Publisher/Label:
Wergo
Duration:
47 ′27 ′′
Series:
Technical Details
Media Type:
CD with 84-page booklet in slipcase
Product number:
WER 66762
MAN EAN:
4010228667622
Weight:
0,18 kg
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