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Says James

in terms of individual expression of emotions and technical complexities

it is soon apparent that many enthralling compositions remain silently filed away in libraries and archives

s Dandy under the pseudonym Leeds

Humperdinck/ Dinic - Hansel Und Gretel Excerpts Condition:New Says JamesIf there is such a thing as a classic Christmas opera, then it is Hansel and Gretel. Like hardly anyone else, Humperdinck succeeded here in combining folk melodies with the technical sophistication of mature compositional art. Even before the opera, he published a shorter version as a fairy tale play, which, like an essence of the opera, exposes it's essential design principles. The opera's libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette,

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