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Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel
Deze productie van Engelbert Humperdincks Hänsel und Gretel door de Semperoper Dresden uit 2006 staat onder leiding van dirigent Michael Hofstetter. Solisten zijn Irmgard, Vilsmaier, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Antigone Papoulkas en Iris Vermillion. Op verzoek van zijn zus heeft Humperdinck het klassieke sprookje over Hans en Grietje van de gebroeders Grimm op muziek gezet. Zij wilde haar kinderen vermaken tijdens de kerstdagen. Dit bleek zo’n succes te zijn dat broer en zus het niet lang daarna uitwerkten tot de opera die we vandaag de dag kennen. Hänsel und Gretel is dan ook een echt ‘familiewerk’ en geliefd bij zowel jong als oud.
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Europakonzert 1993 - Royal Albert Hall
Every year, the Europakonzert is hosted by the Berliner Philharmoniker in a notorious concert hall or on a special location. This years concert is performed at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall in London. The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink starts with Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture from "Roméo et Juliette". The second piece by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is his famous Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major K. 216 played by the German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann. During his career he played with a lot of famous orchestras and conductors such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons. He has a great passion for chamber music and plays a lot of recitals with the Italian pianist Enrico Pace. The concert closes with Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring which he wrote in 1913 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The première caused a lot of sensation and near-riot in the audience because of the avant-garde nature, music and choreography of the piece. The Rite of Spring is now considered as one of the masterpieces of classical music history and has influenced many 20th-century music composers. The encore is Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz from the Nutcracker.