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P. Hindemith: Long Christmas Dinner Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Long Christmas Dinner Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl

Artist:

P. Hindemith

Label:

Wergo Germany

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

4010228667622

Genre:

Classical

Sub Genre:

Opera/Operetta

Release Date:

2005-12-13

Number of Discs:

1

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.

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