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CD96469 Hansel und Gretel, RAI Milano 1957 - Cossotto, Poleri
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CD96469 Hansel und Gretel, RAI Milano 1957 - Cossotto, Poleri
Here's an audio derived from the recent upload of the 1957 RAI video of "Hansel e Gretel". Many thanks to the uploader for the excellent files. I have extracted the audio in wave form and remastered to optimize the sound (at least to my own taste), and have compressed as flacs. The huge compression ratio reveals the origin of the files as 256 kbps components of the video, but I have avoided the additional lossiness of a second compression after the mastering process by not re-compressing to mp3. The sound turned out rather well.
Engelbert Humperdinck HANSEL UND GRETEL (sung in Italian)
Gretel - Jan Poleri Hänsel - Fiorenza Cossotto Die Knusperhexe - Vittoria Palombini Peter - Enrico Campi Gertrud - Maria Amadini Sandmännchen - Jolanda Mancini Taumäannchen - Margherita Benetti
Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano Chorus Master: Roberto Benaglio conducted by NINO SANZOGNO
RAI Milano 1957
One file per act, though acts 2 and 3 are composed to be played through with no interruption, the "vorspeil" being actually (if the commercial cd I used for comparison has tracks and timings are correct) a part of act 2. Effectively it is a two act work. The links are:
Here's an audio derived from the recent upload of the 1957 RAI video of "Hansel e Gretel". Many thanks to the uploader for the excellent files. I have extracted the audio in wave form and remastered to optimize the sound (at least to my own taste), and have compressed as flacs. The huge compression ratio reveals the origin of the files as 256 kbps components of the video, but I have avoided the additional lossiness of a second compression after the mastering process by not re-compressing to mp3. The sound turned out rather well.
Engelbert Humperdinck HANSEL UND GRETEL (sung in Italian)
Gretel - Jan Poleri Hänsel - Fiorenza Cossotto Die Knusperhexe - Vittoria Palombini Peter - Enrico Campi Gertrud - Maria Amadini Sandmännchen - Jolanda Mancini Taumäannchen - Margherita Benetti
Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano Chorus Master: Roberto Benaglio conducted by NINO SANZOGNO
RAI Milano 1957
One file per act, though acts 2 and 3 are composed to be played through with no interruption, the "vorspeil" being actually (if the commercial cd I used for comparison has tracks and timings are correct) a part of act 2. Effectively it is a two act work. The links are:
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