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Louis Spohr, Der Alchemyst - Bernd Weikl, Moran Abouloff, Susanne Pütters, Jörg Dürmüller, Jan Zinkler, Mike Garling. Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatstheater Braunschweig. Conductor: Christian Fröhlich. Oehms Classics OC 923 (3 CD) - Engelbert Humperdinck, Königskinder Klaus-Florian Vogt, Juliane Banse, Christian Gerhaher, Gabriele Schnaut et al. Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Rundfunkchor Berlin. Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher. Chrystall Classics N 67 044 (3 CD)

Engelbert Humperdinck, Koenigskinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2012

Tobias Robert Klein*
Affiliation:
Berlin

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References

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4 As first pointed out in Rudolf Stephan's seminal article ‘Zur jüngsten Geschichte des Melodrams’, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 17 (1960): 183–192Google Scholar.

5 For their most recent musicological (re)assessment see Boder, Wolfram, Die Kasseler Opern Louis Spohrs. Musikdramaturgie im sozialen Kontext (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2007)Google Scholar, which includes newly edited excerpts from the (unpublished) score of Der Alchemyst.

6 Even the startling ‘Tristan’-anticipation in Paola's romance is to be understood as a decidedly exotic colour.

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8 This is one of the chief observations running through the lines of Norbert Miller's and Carl Dahlhaus’ (posthumous) Europäische Romantik in der Musik, 2 vols (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999–2007)Google Scholar.

9 Conducted by Heinz Wallberg (1976, EMI 566 360-2) and Fabio Luisi (1996, Calig 50968-70).

10 See Bernd Distelkamp, ‘Eine innige Verschmelzung von Wort und Musik’: Untersuchungen zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Märchenoper ‘Königskinder’ von Elsa Bernstein und Engelbert Humperdinck (Siegburg: Rheinlandia, 2003).

11 Available on Preiser Records PR89735.

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