- Audio CD (22 Sep 2008)
- SPARS Code: ADD
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Box set
- Label: Decca (UMO)
- ASIN: B0016YFC0W
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,692 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The great glory of Solti's Hansel und Gretel is the Vienna Philharmonic. They play with persuasive abandon in both the lyrical and the melodramatic music, and the Wagner-style orchestration of the piece is given to the full. For some listeners this may all be too much. If you want sentiment and charm you may have to go elsewhere. Fassbaender and Popp as the children sound womanly, Schlemm as the Witch sounds like a pantomime vamp - but then it depends what you want from this opera. Walter Berry as the Father turns in one of his most likeable performances on disc. Strange as it is that the high-quality casting doesn't deliver as much realism as it might, the symphonic strength immerses you immediately in the composer's unique sound-world: and this wonderful orchestra hold your attention from the opening bars of the Vorspiel to the final chorale of the liberated children. Definitely worth considering for the hi-tech sound.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Thia is, perhaps, the very best recording of Hansel and Gretrel still on the market. Apart from the superb technical quality of the recording iteslf, the names of those who sing the various roles reads like a list of the best possible mix of voices for a work so beautifully written and performed. Solti's genius is more than enhanced by the Vienna Philharmoic and the Vienna Boys Choir's unique quality completes the rich range of performed music.
Walter Berry's "Peter" finds every conceivable variation essential,from the unthreatening begining to the joy at the final rescue; and the exquisite "prayer" sung by Lucia Popp as Gretel and Brigitte Fassbender as Hansel is worthy the repeating time and again.
I commend this heartily (if a touch sentimentally)as worth every musical moment.
Anthony Austin
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Walter Berry's "Peter" finds every conceivable variation essential,from the unthreatening begining to the joy at the final rescue; and the exquisite "prayer" sung by Lucia Popp as Gretel and Brigitte Fassbender as Hansel is worthy the repeating time and again.
I commend this heartily (if a touch sentimentally)as worth every musical moment.
Anthony Austin
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The delivery of Hansel & Gretal was fast & efficient. The cost of Manuscript was competative and arrived in a very condition.
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