Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) Overture

[AJNorth]

The opening bars, and its recurring theme, might lead one to wonder whether Humperdinck, who composed his opera in 1891-92 might have been influenced by the Navy Hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," which original hymn was written by William Whiting of Winchester, England, in 1860. In any case, a lovely performance here.

[mobileje]

Amo essa música. Tem muita variedade de emoções.

Obrigado por postar essa beleza IngramoschFelshammer.

[IngramoschFelshammer]

@mobileje

Could you repeat that in English? I wish I could understand what you think about it ;)

[mistletoeholly]

love this im singing this song in a show=)

[ellaking]

i love playing 1st horn in this, you just float above everything, its gorgeous

[Twissie14]

which percussion instruments are used?

[wskfanclever]

Am I allowed to recommend my channel ?

There you will find two clips of the German opera-film...:)

[ollie3003]

i love playing the 1st horn for this one

[flyingpiggy101]

I play 1st french horn for this too!

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Bin ich froh, dass ich da als Schlagzeuger nur selten Probleme mit habe ^^

[ginganu1234]

heavy metal is better lol but this is good

[emma110691]

that's interesting. why's heavy metal better then?

[s2broadwaybabys2]

i played this at band camp in a horn ensemble and now im in the opera singing so il b able to hear it all the time!!! i love this song its so pretty

[FrenchHornSeJun]

I LOVE THE HORN SOLO!!!! LET"S GO HORNS! Oh yeah, I play the horn and looked this up because when I played it, it was gorgeous. And I guessed other better people would play it because i lost my recording.

[jkbs123]

We played this when I was in Philharmonia in MYSO :P.. Now we're playing the firebird

[ganznormaleheldin]

Das Lied ist toll und so, aber ich versteh die Bilder zwischendurch nicht ...

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Naja, der Regisseur hat das ganze mehr oder weniger auf "Moderne Gesellschaftskritik" getrimmt, fand ich von der Inszenierung her teilweise auch nicht sooo toll gelungen. Aber man kann's sich ja nicht aussuchen ^^

[Zanite]

It sounds really nice... but it also seems like it would get boring to play after a while.

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Why is that? ^^

[libbystar38]

what was that thing in the middle!?! ah!

[IngramoschFelshammer]

DO you mean the projections?

Well, the director had a kind of modern approach to that opera ^^

I couldn't see much of it from my position ;)

[renethel]

thank you for posting! when i did Hansel and Gretel, we didn't play the whole overture :-(, so it was great to hear your excellent performance!

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Oh, why didn't you play the whole ouverture?

We just cut some parts in the end (with the... er... "Lebkuchenkinder"-Choir (just don't have the english word at hand :P))

[renethel]

oh, it was a youth opera production (i was 15 playing Gretel). We made the opera very colorful-storybook-like (and sung it in English) so that many little kids would enjoy it and start to gain an appreciation for opera. But with the long overture, kids would get angsty waiting to see the action. LOL, that's kids for ya haha! Also we only had a piano and a flute for the cukoo, so a piano playing such a gorgeous overture would feel dull. your performance here is beautiful!

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Ok I see ^^

We had to use a synthesizer for the cukoo (in the rehearsels before someone "organized" this we had to play it on the xylophone. Hm, I think I even liked it that way :P

[madifatti2x4]

Isn't Humperdinck the prince in Princess Bride?

[IngramoschFelshammer]

As long as his first name isn't Engelbert ;)

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Aww, over a 1000 views now and just 2 comments? ^^

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Yeah, we also played it around christmas time (but the whole piece ^^ Didn't have the time yet to upload the rest)

Isn't really a kind of a christmas piece to me, either

[IngramoschFelshammer]

Thanks for the first comment ^^

Too bad you can't see us Percussionists. Unfortunately, they didn't put up a camera on the other side of the stage as well