Mozart: Die Zauberflöte Fritz Wunderlich

• 1Overture07:17
• 2Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!06:45
• 3Wo bin ich?00:21
• 4Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja02:35
• 5He da! ... Was da?03:13
• 6Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön04:36
• 7Rüste dich mit Mut und Standhaftigkeit00:45
• 8O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn!05:23
• 9Ist es denn Wirklichkeit, was ich sah?00:03
• 10Hm, hm, hm06:27
• 11Du feines Täubchen, nur herein!01:47
• 12Bin ich nicht ein Narr01:22
• 13Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen03:19
• 14Zum Ziele führt dich diese Bahn10:25
• 15Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton03:19
• 16Schnelle Füße, rascher Mut03:11
• 17Es lebe Sarastro! Sarastro lebe!09:04
• 18Marsch der Priester01:23
• 19Ihr eingeweihten Diener der Götter Osiris...02:20
• 20O Isis und Osiris02:56
• 21Eine schreckliche Nacht!01:57
• 22Bewahret euch vor Weibertücken00:55
• 23He, Lichter her!00:13
• 24Wie? Wie? Wie? Ihr an diesem Schreckensort?03:38
• 25Tamino! Dein standhaft männliches Betragen hat gesiegt00:27
• 26Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden01:19
• 27Mutter!00:22
• 28Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen02:57
• 29Morden soll ich?00:48
• 30In diesen heil'gen Hallen04:04
• 31Hier seid ihr beide euch allein überlassen01:46
• 32Seid uns zum zweitenmal willkommen01:48
• 33Tamino, wollen wir nicht speisen?01:08
• 34Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden04:31
• 35O Isis und Osiris03:07
• 36Tamino, deine Haltung war bisher männlich00:31
• 37Soll ich dich, Teurer, nicht mehr sehn?03:02
• 38Tamino! Tamino!01:09
• 39Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich03:55
• 40Da bin ich schon, mein Engel01:00
• 41Bald prangt, den Morgen zu verkünden06:23
• 42Der, welcher wandelt diese Straße voll Beschwerden05:25
• 43Tamino mein! O welch ein Glück!07:04
• 44Papagena, Papagena, Papagena! Weibchen, Täubchen08:10
• 45Nur stille, stille, stille, stille!02:16
• 46Die Strahlen der Sonne vertreiben die Nacht03:14
• Total Runtime02:27:40

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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