Mozart Contemporaries

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SWR
Release Date
May 11, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHERUBINI GLUCK PAISIELLO
    • PERFORMER
      Wunderlich, Verlooy, Bence, Nocker, Hillebrecht, Cordes, Lippmann, Hoyem, Messthaler
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 11, 2018
    • UPC
      747313905980
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SWR19059CD
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 8: Aria: Schönster Sohn des Himmels!

      Composer: Ignaz Holzbauer

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    2. Act III Scene 4: Duetto: O König, deine Hand

      Composer: Ignaz Holzbauer

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Fritz Wunderlich, Elisabeth Verlooy

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    3. L'innocenza giustificata: Aria: Alte Eiche an schwindelnden Hängen (Sung in German)

      Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    4. Brenno, Act I Scene 7: Santi numi del cielo

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Reichardt

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Elisabeth Verlooy, Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    5. L'amor contrastato, "La molinara", Act II: Nel cor più non mi sento

      Composer: Giovanni Paisiello

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Elisabeth Verlooy, Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    6. Act I Scene 2: Questo agevole a ameno - Dei clementi, amici dei

      Composer: Vincenzo Righini

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    7. Act II Scene 17: Alme belle, fugitte prudenti

      Composer: Vincenzo Righini

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Elisabeth Verlooy, Margarethe Bence, Fritz Wunderlich, Hans Günter Nöcker

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    8. Act I: O du meine Erretter

      Composer: Luigi Cherubini

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Performer: Hildegard Hillebrecht, Fritz Wunderlich, Marcel Cordes

      Conductor: Hans Müller-Kray

    9. Act I: Mich trennen soll ich von dem Gatten

      Composer: Luigi Cherubini

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Performer: Hildegard Hillebrecht, Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Hans Müller-Kray

    10. Act I: Finale: Gott! Täuscht mein Auge mich nicht

      Composer: Luigi Cherubini

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Performer: Hildegard Hillebrecht, Christa Lippmann, Fritz Wunderlich, Robert Hoyem, Marcel Cordes, August Messthaler

      Conductor: Hans Müller-Kray

    11. Act III: Dies Schweigen ist so fürchterlich

      Composer: Luigi Cherubini

      Ensemble: Stuttgart Radio Choir, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Performer: Hildegard Hillebrecht, Fritz Wunderlich, Robert Hoyem, Klaus Bertram, Walter Köninger

      Conductor: Hans Müller-Kray

    12. Gli equivoci in amore, o vero La Rosaura, Act II Scene 8: Quel povero core

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

      Performer: Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Emmerich Smola

    13. Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I Scene 1: Arioso: Ombra mai fù

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Performer: Fritz Wunderlich

      Conductor: Alfons Rischner


This album is the sixth installment of the series dedicated to the SWR recordings of Fritz Wunderlich. It contains arias composed by less known contemporaries of Mozart, including two arias by Alessandro Scarlatii and Handel. Fritz Wunderlich had a bright, albeit entirely too short career. Born to a violinist mother and choir director father, he was enveloped in music from an early age. He was urged to pursue classical voice training by a theater troupe who heard him singing as they passed by the bakery where he worked. He was granted a scholarship to the Freiburg Music Academy in Breisgau, and studied there from 1950 to 1955. While there he also studied the classical horn, which explains his incredible breath control. During the remaining decade of his life Fritz Wunderlich gained respect as a Mozart singer, Bach interpreter, and Bel Canto and light opera performer.