The Art of Fritz Wunderlich

The Art of Fritz Wunderlich

The Art of Fritz Wunderlich
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Performer: August Messthaler
Composer: 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
  1. Duetto (tenor, bass) and Chorus: "Kommt, eilet und laufet"
  2. Aria (tenor): "Sanfte soll mein Todeskummer"
  3. Recitative [and Chorale] (tenor, chorus 2): "O Schmerz! Hier zittert das gequ?lte Herz"
  4. Aria with Chorus (tenor, chorus 2): "Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen" (excerpt)
  5. Recitiative (tenor): "Mein Jesus schweigt zu falschen L?gen stille"
  6. Aria (tenor): "Geduld!" (excerpt)
  7. Duet (contralto, tenor): "et misericordia"
  8. Aria (tenor): "Deposuit potentes"
  9. Recitative (tenor): "So stehe denn, du gottergeb'ne Seele"
  10. Aria (tenor): "Adam muss in uns verwesen"
  11. Chorus: "Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage"
  12. Recitative [Evangelist] (tenor): "Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit"
  13. Aria (tenor): "Frohe Hirten, eilt, act eilet"
  14. Aria (tenor): "Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben"
  15. Recitative [Evangelist] (tenor): "Und lie? versammeln alle Hohenpriester"
  16. Terzetto (soprano, alto, tenor): "Ach! wann wird die Zeit erscheinen"
  17. Recitative (tenor): "Und Gott befahl ihnen im Traum" - "Genug, mein Schatz geht nicht von hier"
  18. Aria (tenor): "Nun m?gt ihr stolzen Feinde schrecken"
Music CD 2
  1. Overture
  2. Aria: "Hier soll ich dich denn sehen"
  3. Recitative and Aria: "Konstanze, dich wiederzusehen, dich!" - "O wie ?ngstlich, o wie feurig"
  4. Aria: "Wenn der Freude Tr?nen flie?en"
  5. Quartet: "Ach! Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"
  6. Aria: "Ich baue ganz auf deine St?rke"
  7. Recitative and Aria: "Welch ein Geschick!" - "wie, Du solltest f?r mich sterben!"
  8. Aria: "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd sch?n"
  9. Act 1. Finale: "Zum Ziele f?hrt dich diese Bahn"
  10. "Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton"
  11. Act 2. Finale: "Der, Welcher wandert diese Stra?e voll Beschwerden"
  12. "Tamino mein! O welch ein Gl?ck!"
Music CD 3
  1. Duet: "Strahlt auf mich der Blitz des Goldes" (All'idea di quel metallo)
  2. Duet: "Hier nimm den Ring der Treue" (Prendi: I'anel ti dono)
  3. Scene and Duet: "Ich denk ihn lieber mir von meinem Stande - Liebe ist Seligkeit, ist Licht und Leb
  4. Toast: "O Freunde, so leeret in vollen Z?gen" (Libiamo ne' lieti calici)
  5. Duet: "Ich sah Euch lieblich und engelssch?n" (Un di felice, eterea)
  6. Duet: "O, lass uns fliehen aus diesen Mauern" (Parigi, o cara, noi lasceremo)
  7. Scene nd Duet: "Er ist's! Carlos! Mein Prinz! - Gott, der entflammte der Liebe hei?e Glut" (Le voil
  8. Duet: "Infame Feder! Welch scheu?licher Pinsel - Ach, Geliebte! Nie kehrst du mir wieder!" (Che pen
  9. Aria: "Und es blitzten die Sterne" (E lucevan le stelle)
  10. Scene: "Nicht an mich, Geliebter, denke"
  11. Duet: "Du s??ester Engel, wie herrlich hast du geteufelt!"
  12. "Leukippos, du?"
  13. Arioso: "Ja, ich lieb Sie, Olga" (Ya lyublyu vas)
  14. Aria: "Wohin seid ihr entschwunden" (Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis)
Music CD 4
  1. Recitative and Arioso: "Holdes Laubgezweig, du sch?nes - Schattige Ruh, nie gab Natur sie mir" (Fon
  2. Aria: "Der Gedanke an die Flammen der Liebe" (Pi? che penso alle fiamme del core)
  3. Aria: "Bleibt ihhr treu dem, der euch so verachtet?" (Se bramate d'amar, chi vi sdegna)
  4. Aria: "Finstre Furien, ihr Geister der H?lle" (Crude furie degl'orridi abissi)
  5. Aria: "Nur einen Wunsch, nur ein Verlangen" (Unis d?s la plus tendre enfance)
  6. Recitative and Duet: "O unverhofftes Gl?ck - Das h?re ich von dir, von meinem Freunde?" (? moment t
  7. "Ma se il nostro gioir - Alcun non sia"
  8. "Perch? a lo sdegno - Padre cortese - Si non vedr?"
  9. Aria: "Erwacht in meinem Herzen" (Svegliatevi nel core)
  10. Duet: "Nur weinen lernte ich / Nur klagen lernte ich" (Sonata a lagrimar / Son nato a sospirar)
  11. Aria: "Keine Schlange l?sst sich t?ten" (L'angue offeso mai riposa)
  12. Romance: "O schweige still, o lasse dich erbitten" (Ne parle pas, Rose, je t'en supplie)
  13. Trio: "Doch nun zu dir - Trenne nicht das Band der Liebe"
  14. Aria: "Man wird ja einmal nur geboren"
  15. Song: "Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch M?dchen"
  16. Recitative and Duet: "Du stehst wirklich vor mir - Der Tempel Brahmas strahlt" (C'est toi, toi qu'e
Music CD 5
  1. 1. Im wundersch?nen Monat Mai
  2. 2. Aus meinen Tr?nen sprie?en
  3. 3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
  4. 4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh
  5. 5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
  6. 6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
  7. 7. Ich grolle nicht
  8. 8. Und w?ssten's die Blumen, die kleinen
  9. 9. Das ist ein Fl?ten und Geigen
  10. 10. H?r ich das Liedchen klingen
  11. 11. Ein J?ngling liebt ein M?dchen
  12. 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
  13. 13. Ich hab im Traum geweinet
  14. 14. Alln?chtlich im Traume seh ich dich
  15. 15. Aus alten M?rchen winkt es
  16. 16. Die alten b?sen Lieder
Music CD 6
  1. Du bist die Welt f?r mich
Music CD 7
  1. Wien wird bei Nacht erst sch?n
  2. Wenn es Abend wird - Gr?? mir mein Wien
  3. Weine nicht, bricht eine sch?ne Frau dir das Herz
  4. Mein Herz ruft immer nur nach dir, o Marita

Music reviews of The Art of Fritz Wunderlich

Music Review: Correction
Rating: 5 Stars

Now 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?

Please make your own decision.

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