"Hansel und Gretel" - "The Overture"

[duxdemontis98]

Engelbert Humperdinck, great son of our city. Greetings from Siegburg/ Rheinland

[warandcheese]

which orchestra?? its beautiful.

[mortalfrog0815]

hänsel und gretel is one of the finest operas ever written! every single piece is a masterpiece of its own...

[nbe1951]

Wonderful music

[5277407]

Its dreamy

[danielgdecastro]

Alucinante, me encanta esta obertura, y la ópera entera! No me canso nunca de escucharla, una bonita manera de acercar la ópera a los niños ^^

[xxHoviexx]

The orchestra I play in is plating this at a concert :) It's an AMZING piece!! Although, I really do not appriciate his extremly high violin scales... ¬.¬

[60ECg]

See Hansel und Gretel-Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Karajan.

[BUweB]

Thank you, so wonderful!

[amonticello]

you really hear how much Richard Wagner's music influenced Humperdinck

[raeka4eva]

i couldnt agree more....ive been looking for this since 1996 when i heard it on tape......thank you so very much for putting it on here

[bohemianscara]

Thankyou for putting this up, I'm helping to direct an English university production. Trying to put scene setting action in the overture is much easier when listening to it while planning it.

[xanthopsized]

This piece of mucis has a magical effect on me. I really feel like being tucked in bed under a warm blanket with a good night kiss full of love on my cheek. The use of woodwinds is AMAZING! Thanks for posting.

[maadjuh1900]

beautifull this ouverture

next month i'm going to watch this opera in the theatre

and i'm looking forward to it

little detail : I've got this version on cd and I love the way they perform the opera at this cd

[PTCello]

The overture always moves me deeply...the whole opera is wonderful(though the plot's a bit juvenile) and the overture is gorgeous. thank you for posting.

[Jewelydeer]

this always makes me cry =/

[PTCello]

nothing wrong with that... the main theme is a Prayer

"Abends will ich schlafen gehen"

If you look up "Evening Prayer from Hansel & Gretel" you'll find lots of renditions. the good ones always make me cry. At the end of the first act, the kids are going to sleep in the forest, and as they pray their evening prayer, 14 angels come down from heaven and stand guard around them. I've played the opera three times, and it always gets me... always. I may have one version in my favorites.

[Jewelydeer]

ach, wie Herrlich. Dankesehr, i will have to look those up. The part in the forest when they pray is my favorite part. my great grandmother or mother would occasionally sing me that piece before bedtime. sometimes in German, sometimes English

[CelloBoy13913]

I know-no child deserves to be captured by evil witches!... it makes me cry too.

[anonymusum]

@PTCello

It´s an old German fairy tale

[PTCello]

@anonymusum

Umm... yes, I knew that. Why did you think I didn't?

[anonymusum]

@PTCello

Because you wrote that the libretto is "a bit juvenile"

[AliceElphabaWonka]

@PTCello How can you say the plot is juvenille, these poor kids are going to be eaten by a bloodthirsty, evil witch! Sounds pretty scary and gruesome too me. lol

[supermandisco]

@AliceElphabaWonka Ever see the Cloris Leachman version? She actually holds a butcher knife above poor sleeping Gretel in order to get Hansel to concede to her wishes. omg.

[DemonMaiden]

@AliceElphabaWonka Hahaha, at least it's better than what my aunt thought of the plot. She had never heard of Hansel & Gretel before. So when we left the opera, she couldn't stop talking about how disgusting and sexual it was (especially the witch eating children part), and she was being totally serious.

[violistart]

Finally it´s a professional orchstra playing

[bladerj]

agreed, this is the version i know, i love the part at 6 when the music just explode.

[HoneyFinn]

i agree! i tried to find it for a lllooonnnggg time and finally~~~~

[abnerwagner]

I LOVE H&G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!