SKU: KU.GM-1918C
ISBN 9790206202889. Key: C major. German, English.
The world famous tale Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm was set to music in the 1890s by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The children's opera is performed regularly at many opera houses.
The Evening Prayer 'When at night I go to sleep', with which the two kids sing themselves to sleep, is one of the most famous songs of this opera, and is also used as the beginning of the overture.
This arrangement is scored for wind quintet with an english horn. In case no english horn should be available, we present an alternative version that features an oboe instead. The flute nd bassoon players will then use the same parts as in the version with english horn.
(Simon Scheiwiller, April 2015)
SKU: KJ.GB887F
Hansel and Gretel, arranged by Ron Cowherd, takes the form of an overture, containing three musical vignettes from the opera: Evening Prayer; Brother, Come and Dance and There Stands a Little Man. The arranger has faithfully captured the magic of the original in the carefully scored arrangement that will make your band sound great! Correlates With Best In Class Bk. 2 Page 19 / SOE Bk. 2 Page 25.
SKU: BR.MR-2304
A musical fairytale
ISBN 9790004488713. 9 x 12 inches.
In 2015 Philipp Matthias Kaufmann was commissioned to write an arrangement for chamber ensemble with motifs of Humperdinck's famous opera. While the instrumentation offered a variety of possibilities soundwise, with the required 7 minutes playing time it was a challenging task for him to confine the arrangement to just a few motifs. Kaufmann chose a dramaturgic coherence for his arrangement; a pocket-sized instrumental fairytale was the result. Based on a version of the beautiful overture, the children's songs of the cheerful siblings Hansel and Gretel are played. Then, their father comes home, half-drunk to bear his life in poverty. For the sake of brevity, this is directly followed by the rumbling Witch's Ride. The gruff lady is then carefully stowed away in her oven, which leads to the jubilant finale. As an extract from a grand work, this arrangement does indeed have a charming impact, for Humperdinck's ideas can stand this kind of abridgement quite easily.A musical fairytale.
SKU: TM.05901SC
Transposed: Cl 1&2, Bsn 1&2 in Bass Clef, Hn 1-4, Tpt 1&2, Tbn 1&2. Clar. originally in Bb.
SKU: TM.05901SET
SKU: TM.05901TPS
