Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151 Berlin Radio Choir, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Steffen Tast

• Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921): Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I:
• 1 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Opening of the Shrine of the Virgin - Arrival of the Procession 04:03
• 2 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Departure of the Procession 02:38
• 3 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: May Song with the Minstrel - Dance of Megildis 03:09
• 4 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Megildis' Longing 04:11
• 5 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: The Knight Is Knocking 02:31
• 6 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Confusion and Decision 01:38
• 7 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Rebellion 01:15
• 8 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Entry and Courtship by the Knight 01:40
• 9 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: The Virgin's Sign 01:09
• 10 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Prayer and Flight 02:06
• 11 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Transformation of the Virgin Statue - The Miracle 02:09
• 12 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Entrance of the Nuns - Ave Maria 03:49
• 13 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act I: Final Chorus 04:06
• Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude:
• 14 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Entrance and Waltz of the Minstrel 02:23
• 15 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Megildis' Dance and Death of the Knight 02:07
• 16 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Abduction of Megildis - Interlude 02:41
• 17 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: The Minstrel's Melody of Death 00:29
• 18 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Banquet at the Count's and Arrival of the King's Son 02:36
• 19 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Masquerade at the Royal Court 02:31
• 20 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Megildis' Torch-Dance and Fire 03:07
• 21 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Melody of Death and Death of the King 00:31
• 22 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: The Thieves' Cave 01:27
• 23 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Soldier's March and Recollection 02:46
• 24 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Interlude: Procession of Death and Finale 04:41
• Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II:
• 25 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Christmas Eve in the Convent 02:55
• 26 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Children Outside the Church 02:40
• 27 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: The Light - Chorale 01:21
• 28 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Children's Chorus and Departure of the Nuns 01:44
• 29 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Holy Night 03:12
• 30 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Re-transformation - Knocking - Storm 02:22
• 31 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Return of Megildis 01:58
• 32 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Attempt at Remembrance 02:01
• 33 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Recognition 01:03
• 34 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: The Dead Child - Fainting 01:48
• 35 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Transformation of the Child 01:34
• 36 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: The Miracle of the Bells 01:05
• 37 Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151, Act II: Final Chorus - Salve Regina 04:57
• Total Runtime 01:28:23

Info for Humperdinck: Das Mirakel, EHWV 151

Engelbert Humperdinck's music for the pantomime of Karl Gustav Vollmoeller's arguably most important stage work impresses with it's deeply Romantic sound and large-scale choral scenes and had so far led an unforgivable shadowy existence in the composer's oeuvre. Premiered in London in 1911, none other than Max Reinhardt adapted this work for film (1912) and staged numerous performances with hundreds of actors, singers, and dancers - finally also at the Salzburg Festival in 1925. This recording represents the first complete recording of this deeply Romantic masterpiece.

Josette Micheler, mezzo-soprano
Sophie Klussmann, soprano
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Händelkinderchor
Steffen Tast, conductor

Steffen Tast
was born in 1965 in Berlin.

After studying violin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin in 1987, he became a member of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). In the same year, his interest in contemporary music led him to the chamber ensemble “Kammerensemble Neue Musik” Berlin (KNM).

In recent years, he has been appearing increasingly as a conductor. Initially, the focus was on working with KNM Berlin. This was followed by invitations as a conductor with the Ensemble Oriol, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Ensemble Modern, and the Ensemble Ascolta Stuttgart. Since 2005 he has been regularly conducting chamber orchestra concerts with members of the RSB and their orchestra academy, and also symphony concerts as part of the family- and school student concerts of the orchestra since 2014. In his home village of Klein Leppin in north-western Brandenburg, he was one of the initiators of the project “Dorf macht Oper” (“Village makes opera”) in 2005 and has since been its musical director.

Steffen Tast is involved as mentor in the orchestra academy of the RSB.

The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
holds an internationally recognised position among the German radio orchestras and Berlin’s top orchestras. Vladimir Jurowski has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director since 2017. Acting alongside him since 2019 is Karina Canellakis as Principal Guest Conductor.

The RSB dates back to the first musical radio hour of the German Broadcasting Corporation in October 1923. The previous chief conductors, including Sergiu Celibidache, Eugen Jochum, Hermann Abendroth, Rolf Kleinert, Heinz Rögner, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Marek Janowski, formed an orchestra that has experienced the vicissitudes of German history in the 20th century in a special way.

Today, the RSB has become a top address for outstanding young conductors on the international music scene: Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vasily Petrenko, Jakub Hrůša, Alain Altinoglu, Omer Meir Wellber, Lahav Shani or Nicholas Carter. Many of them made their Berlin debut with the RSB and now conduct it regularly.

Since 1923, important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries have conducted the RSB or performed their own works as soloists: Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg, Igor Stravinsky, Wladimir Vogel, Kurt Weill and Alexander Zemlinsky, as well as, more recently, Krzysztof Penderecki, Peter Maxwell Davies, Friedrich Goldmann, Berthold Goldschmidt, Siegfried Matthus, Matthias Pintscher, Peter Ruzicka, Heinz Holliger, Jörg Widmann, Thomas Adès and Brett Dean. Brett Dean and Marko Nikodijević were most recently present at the RSB as composer-in-residence, and in 2021/2022 Jelena Firssova will enrich the season with her work.

Thanks to close ties with both Deutschlandradio and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), all RSB symphony concerts are broadcast on the radio. For more than 50 years, the RSB has made regular guest appearances in Japan and Korea as well as at German and European festivals and in music centres worldwide.

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