Mozart: Die Zauberflöte Fritz Wunderlich

• 1 Overture 07:17
• 2 Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe! 06:45
• 3 Wo bin ich? 00:21
• 4 Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja 02:35
• 5 He da! ... Was da? 03:13
• 6 Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön 04:36
• 7 Rüste dich mit Mut und Standhaftigkeit 00:45
• 8 O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn! 05:23
• 9 Ist es denn Wirklichkeit, was ich sah? 00:03
• 10 Hm, hm, hm 06:27
• 11 Du feines Täubchen, nur herein! 01:47
• 12 Bin ich nicht ein Narr 01:22
• 13 Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen 03:19
• 14 Zum Ziele führt dich diese Bahn 10:25
• 15 Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton 03:19
• 16 Schnelle Füße, rascher Mut 03:11
• 17 Es lebe Sarastro! Sarastro lebe! 09:04
• 18 Marsch der Priester 01:23
• 19 Ihr eingeweihten Diener der Götter Osiris... 02:20
• 20 O Isis und Osiris 02:56
• 21 Eine schreckliche Nacht! 01:57
• 22 Bewahret euch vor Weibertücken 00:55
• 23 He, Lichter her! 00:13
• 24 Wie? Wie? Wie? Ihr an diesem Schreckensort? 03:38
• 25 Tamino! Dein standhaft männliches Betragen hat gesiegt 00:27
• 26 Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden 01:19
• 27 Mutter! 00:22
• 28 Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen 02:57
• 29 Morden soll ich? 00:48
• 30 In diesen heil'gen Hallen 04:04
• 31 Hier seid ihr beide euch allein überlassen 01:46
• 32 Seid uns zum zweitenmal willkommen 01:48
• 33 Tamino, wollen wir nicht speisen? 01:08
• 34 Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden 04:31
• 35 O Isis und Osiris 03:07
• 36 Tamino, deine Haltung war bisher männlich 00:31
• 37 Soll ich dich, Teurer, nicht mehr sehn? 03:02
• 38 Tamino! Tamino! 01:09
• 39 Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich 03:55
• 40 Da bin ich schon, mein Engel 01:00
• 41 Bald prangt, den Morgen zu verkünden 06:23
• 42 Der, welcher wandelt diese Straße voll Beschwerden 05:25
• 43 Tamino mein! O welch ein Glück! 07:04
• 44 Papagena, Papagena, Papagena! Weibchen, Täubchen 08:10
• 45 Nur stille, stille, stille, stille! 02:16
• 46 Die Strahlen der Sonne vertreiben die Nacht 03:14
• Total Runtime 02:27:40

Info for Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

„Böhm’s 1964 Zauberflöte has long been a strong recommendation. This reissue does not dethrone its position, nor is it diminished by later versions concerned with ‘correct’ performing practice... Böhm’s speeds do lock into a powerful, if sacerdotal, view of the whole. The principal jewel is Fritz Wunderlich’s Tamino, incomparable in its lyric ardour, musicality and tangible characterisation. There is a rock-like Sarastro from Franz Crass and fine Sprecher from Hans Hotter. Evelyn Lear is a radiant Pamina, and Roberta Peters has the stratospheric measure of Queen of the Night.“ (Patrick Carnegy, BBC Music Magazine)

Evely Lear, Soprano
Roberta Peters, Sopraon
Lisa Otto, Soprano
Fritz Wunderlich, Tenor
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone
Franz Crass, Bass
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm, Conductor

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Fritz Wunderlich
The esteemed German tenor, Fritz Wunderlich, who was born to a violinist mother and choir director father, was no doubt enveloped in music at an early age. Urged to pursue classical voice training by theater people who heard him singing as they passed the bakery where he worked, the young Wunderlich was granted a scholarship to the Freiburg Music Academy in Breisgau by the town fathers. He studied there from 1950 to 1955, also studying the classical horn which explains his almost supernatural breath control.

After playing Tamino in a 1955 student production of W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Fritz Wunderlich was engaged by the Wurttemberg State Opera in Stuttgart. His first professional role was as Ulrich Eislinger in Die Meistersinger. When he was called to play Tamino for an ailing Josef Traxel, Stuttgart had a new star and Fritz Wunderlich's short but amazing career had begun.

During the remaining decade of his life Fritz Wunderlich gained the highest respect as a W.A. Mozart singer, lending lyrical brilliance to J.S. Bach, Schubert and Gustav Mahler and melodic tenderness to Bel Canto and light opera roles. Following such greats as Tauber and Schmidt, Wunderlich also devoted a good part of his time to the beautiful songs of such compsers as Strauss, Lehár, Kálmán and Fall. Singing with the Bavarian State Opera and the Vienna State Opera, he also sang every year at the famed Salzburg Festival. After a a highly successful concert tour of the United States in 1964 and engagements at Covent Garden and Edinburgh in 1965, Wunderlich planned his Metropolitan debut as Don Ottavio on October 8, 1966. However, it was not to be. He died September 17, 1966, a week before his 36th birthday in an accidental fall down a stone stairway at a friend's castle in Heidelberg.

Although he never realized his due as a truly international star in his lifetime, Fritz Wunderlich has since become a favorite of opera lovers the world over. One has only to listen to his stunning voice to become a devotee for life. His vocal quality and strength combined with effortless expression and touching lyrical beauty make him one of the truly great tenors of the 20th century and probably of all time.

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