Hansel and Gretel

Album by Engelbert Humperdinck & Philharmonia Orchestra & New London Children’s Choir & Charles Mackerras

Hänsel und Gretel is an opera by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck, premiered in 1893. The work exemplifies late-Romantic German opera with folk-influenced melodies, rich orchestration and lyrical choruses, and it occupies a central place in Humperdinck's output as his most enduring stage work and a staple of the operatic repertoire.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Hansel and Gretel: Overture
    7:40
  2. 2.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "Goosey goosey gander, the mouse in the straw"
    2:56
  3. 3.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "Down with the dumps, out with the grumps"
    2:39
  4. 4.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "Little brother dance with me" (Gretel, Hansel)
    3:38
  5. 5.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "Hansel!" (Mother, Gretel, Hansel)
    2:15
  6. 6.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "My jug all in bits" (Mother)
    1:40
  7. 7.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "Ral-la-la-la, ral-la-la-la, light the fire"
    6:27
  8. 8.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "But wait, say where are the children?"
    3:01
  9. 9.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act I. "But there's one, a crone, who lives alone" (Father, Mother)
    2:35
  10. 10.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. Prelude "The Witches' Ride"
    4:17
  11. 11.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. "A dwarf stood in the forest" (Gretel, Hansel)
    2:53
  12. 12.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. "Cuckoo, cuckoo" (Cuckoo, Hansel, Gretel)
    3:16
  13. 13.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. "Gretel, I think we've lost the way" (Hansel, Gretel, voices)
    4:18
  14. 14.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. "I am the little sandman" (Sandman, Hansel, Gretel)
    2:38
  15. 15.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. "Where each child lays down its head" (Gretel, Hansel)
    3:24
  16. 16.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act II. Pantomime
    5:03

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. Introduction
    2:43
  2. 3.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "When dew drops on the daisy" (Dew Fairy, Gretel)
    1:40
  3. 4.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "I slept here? On a pine-tree bed!"
    5:22
  4. 5.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Keep still! No sound!" (Gretel, Hansel)
    4:11
  5. 6.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Greedy little mousey, who's nibbling at my housey?" (Witch, Hansel, Gretel)
    2:00
  6. 7.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Hansel, don't be so greedy" (Gretel, Hansel, Witch)
    5:11
  7. 8.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Stop! Hocus pocus, witch's ground" (Witch)
    1:17
  8. 9.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Now Gretel, you're the sensible one" (Witch, Gretel, Hansel)
    5:23
  9. 10.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "So hopp hopp hopp, galopp lopp lopp" (Witch)
    1:32
  10. 11.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Now wake up, it's time to eat" (Witch, Gretel, Hansel)
    3:51
  11. 12.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Hoorah! Now that the witch is dead" (Gretel, Hansel)
    2:40
  12. 13.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "The dead arise, but cannot see" (Gingerbread Children, Gretel, Hansel, Father)
    4:05
  13. 14.
    Hansel and Gretel: Act III. "Father! Mother!" (Gretel, Hansel, Mother, Father, Gingerbread Children)
    2:18

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