Great Singers Live: Fritz Wunderlich (LP)
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900315
Format: LP
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 13th April 2017
Contents
Artists
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductors
Kurt EichhornSiegfried Kohler
Willy Mattes
Hans Moltkau
Meinhard von Zallinger
Artists
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductors
Kurt EichhornSiegfried Kohler
Willy Mattes
Hans Moltkau
Meinhard von Zallinger
About
Although fifty years have now passed since Fritz Wunderlich’s tragic death on 17 September 1966, the singer and his incomparable tenor voice have remained unforgotten. One reason for this was the meteoric success of his artistic career. Following his performance in a student production of Mozart’s Magic Flute in Freiburg, the young singer was instantly engaged by the Stuttgart State Opera, then went on to Frankfurt and Munich, performed at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, and had already received an offer from the New York Metropolitan Opera. What people remember most about him was his vital, lively personality, his almost limitless ability to cope under pressure, and of course his mellifluous voice, with its great depth, radiance, and delightful timbre. His accurate and always intelligible pronunciation of the words he sang has remained quite unparalleled. He performed operetta scenes with ease and charming levity; he bestowed the grace of genuine feeling onto lieder that had fallen into sentimental discredit; and he belted out party pieces with all the effortless verve of an Italian….
This new LP from BR-Klassik to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the singer’s death presents early, previously unreleased radio recordings made between 1959 and 1965. The recordings of some Munich Sunday concerts and studio recordings by the Bayerischer Rundfunk show him and his tenor voice at the height of their success. Together with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, he can be experienced singing with such renowned conductors as Kurt Eichhorn, Siegfried Köhler, Willy Mattes, Hans Moltkau and Meinhard von Zallinger.
Here he focused primarily on the German repertoire, from comic opera to operetta all the way to popular hits which, to this day, more or less owe their very survival to his interpretations of them in concerts and recordings.
Fritz Wunderlich - the tenor voice of the 20th century par excellence – can be relived here in these unreleased recordings from BR-Klassik.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Millöcker - Gräfin Dubarry: Wie schön ist alles (Lied des René)
2. Millöcker - Gräfin Dubarry: Mein Weg führt immer mich zu dir zurück (Lied des René)
3. Lortzing - Zar und Zimmermann: Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen (Lied des Marquis Chateauneuf)
4. Lortzing - Undine: Vater, Mutter, Schwestern, Brüder (Lied des Veit)
5. Lortzing - Der Waffenschmied: Man wird ja einmal nur geboren (Arie des Georg)
6. Lehár - Schön ist die Welt: Schön ist die Welt (Lied des Georg)
Side B
1. J Strauss - Eine Nacht in Venedig: Treu sein, das liegt mir nicht (Lied des Herzogs)
2. Fall - Die Rose von Stambul: Oh Rose von Stambul (Lied des Achmed)
3. Künneke - Die lockende Flamme: Ich träume mit offenen Augen (Lied des Jacinto)
4. Künneke - Die grosse Sünderin: Das Lied vom Leben des Schrenk (Lied des Schrenk)
5. Stolz - Ich liebe alle Frauen: Ob blond, ob braun, ich liebe alle Frau’n
6. Spoliansky - Heute Nacht oder nie
7. Mattes - Melodia con passione
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