Fritz Wunderlich: Masses and Oratorios

Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)

Release Date: 19th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: 600012
Label: Documents

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Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3

1959, Live
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
South German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Müller-Kray

Haydn: Mass, Hob. XXII: 9 in C major 'Paukenmesse'

1959, Live, Salzburg Festival
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Salzburg Domchor & Salzburg Mozart Orchestra
Joseph Messner

Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

1960
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Der Schwäbische Singkreis, Orchestra of 35 & Deutschen Bachfestes
Hans Grischkat

Bach, J S: Easter Oratorio BWV249

1956
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Stuttgart Bach-Choir and Orchestra
Marcel Couraud

Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248

1955, Live, Stuttgart
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Stuttgarter Hymnus-Children’s Choir & South German Radio Symphony Orchestra
August Langenbeck

Handel: Messiah

1959, Live, Stuttgart
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Stuttgart Philharmonic Choir & South German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Heinz Mende

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The German singer Fritz Wunderlich has gone down in history as one of the most popular of all lyric tenors. The music presented in this 10-CD set features Wunderlich in recordings that come from the late 1950s, several of which have been gathered together here for the first time. They feature him as soloist in performances in Haydn’s “The Seasons” and “Mass in Time of War”, Bach’s “B Minor Mass”, “Easter Oratorio”, and “Christmas Oratorio”, and Handel’s “Messiah”.

Although revered as an operatic tenor in the grand tradition, it was the sacred music of the pre-classical masters that shaped Fritz Wunderlich’s vocal and artistic development early in his career, and the repertoire of that period remained important to him throughout his career. Thanks to South German Radio, Stuttgart (today merged with Radio Baden-Baden to become the SWR) we have a considerable number of recordings of such works that were made between the years 1955-60. Some of the best of these are gathered together here for the first time in this 10-CD box set to form a major part of the legacy of this great singer.

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Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)

South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg Domchor & Salzburg Mozart Orchestra, Der Schwäbische Singkreis, Orchestra of 35 & Deutschen Bachfestes, Stuttgart Bach-Choir and Orchestra, Stuttgarter Hymnus-Children’s Choir & South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Choir & South German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans Müller-Kray, Joseph Messner, Hans Grischkat, Marcel Couraud, August Langenbeck, Heinz Mende

Fritz Wunderlich: Masses and Oratorios

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