The Art of Fritz Wunderlich
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsPerformer: August MessthalerComposer: Johann Sebastian Bach Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Composer: Vincenzo Bellini Composer: Ralph Benatzky Composer: Georges Bizet Composer: Carl Bohm Composer: Nicholas Brodszky Composer: Eduardo di Capua Composer: Ernesto de Curtis Composer: Luigi Denza Composer: Ralph Erwin Composer: Tommaso Giordani Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck Composer: Luigi Gordigiani Composer: Charles Gounod Composer: George Frederick Handel Composer: Hans Georg Hubsch Composer: Imre (Emmerich) Kalman Composer: Conradin Kreutzer Edition: Music CD Format: Box set, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2005-09-13 Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon Soundtracks: Music CD 1
Music reviews of The Art of Fritz WunderlichMusic Review: CorrectionNow folks, both of what the two other reviewers wrote about the tragical death of Fritz Wunderlich is wrong. Wunderlich died in hospital at September 17 1966. He had broken his skull, when he fell down the stairs in the hunting-house of a friend. Late in the evening of September 16, Wunderlich, as usual when not at home, had phoned his wife in Munich. He was very tired from strolling through the forest the whole day, making out the ideal locations for the hunt, which should start early in the next morning (Wunderlich was a passionate hunter). After he had wished his wife a good night, he went to the staircase in order to go down to his bedroom at the first floor. He still wore his heavy hunting boots - with open shoestrings! As walking downstairs, Wunderlich struggled over the open shoestrings and grabbed for the banisters, which was not more than a rope, fixed to the wall. The banisters teared out, and Wunderlich fell down the whole stairs. Fritz Wunderlich died in hospital the next day. It was only short before his 36'th birthday. An exceptional singing career had come to an untimely end. Some people believe that Wunderlich was drunken at the time of accident. If this is true can't be proven any more. But still this is not what his close friends said, regarding his accident and his death. In my opinion Wunderlich was the last of the really great tenors of the last century. All the tenors which came to fame after him (sorry folks, even such maestros as Pavarotti and Domingo) lack a certain quality in singing. It's the ease of breath flow, or singing on the breath without pushing the voice, it's the overtones, the legato, the mezza voce, the messa di voce and many more things - in short: the overall beauty of the voice through both registers. Wunderlich was the last tenor who had all this. Other examples are Caruso, McCormack, Gigli (despite the sobbing in his later recordings) and of course the wonderful Jussi Bj?rling. But these are only some few names. If you listen for example to the cd's in the box "Famous tenors of the past" you will find that there were many very good and outstanding tenors in the first half of the 20'th century and - as we can only assume - in the time before the invention of the grammophone. Take a close look at todays famous tenors (I know, there are some quite good and promising ones) but what are they in comparison to those tenors (or better to say, to their voices and singing) I just mentioned before?
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