Wunderlich Barbiere

Fritz Wunderlich singing Ecco ridente in cielo From Barber of Seville in German

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Music

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• Opera
• Gaetano
• Rossini
• Barber

[ivanjuarezmex]

The gold standard for ANY SINGER is Fritz Wunderlich...

[voce29]

The gold standard for tenors is still Fritz and all our tenors of today refer to him as an "IDEAL".

[js59695]

@Lovelytenor1 well thats great. wish i could have heard some of these singers live. Too bad americans are about the huge voices. I mean i dont have a huge voice. WOuld u like to hear a recent recording...it isnt great and it was and is very raw first take of de miei...mistakes all over the place but a descent recording email me at jonathon75 at hotmail com

[Lovelytenor1]

@js59695 No argument intended. I wish you luck w/your singing. I was drafted out of grad school & did not get my chance. Have started back singing in my senior years & its not a bad pipe. Yes, there are are plenty of LP mishaps on YT. His was not a perfect instrument & he perhaps performed too much. Have known some folks who sang w/him as well.

Doug

[js59695]

@Lovelytenor1 uhm please tell me u are not trying to start a utube argument... I freakin know people make mistkes... one of my teachers performed with PAV a lot and she said he cracked on high c's a couple of times...happens to everyone...again as stated BELOW... Fritz is usually perfect I love Fritz my fav tenor so I was more than suprised when I heard a mistake thats all i was sayin not that he now sucks and should have been perfect. Im a musician I know...its never perfect

[Lovelytenor1]

@js59695 I sat on stage w/Rubenstein & he dropped some clunkers. Think anyone cared? Listen to old MET broadcasts & hear Corelli blow lots of things. When the great ones sing difficult music live, listen for more than 100% accuracy. Not one of these people ever batted 1000.

[paminablue]

Ah! Wunderlich, Wunderlich... You makes me sigh! What a wonderful voice!

[js59695]

hey, i was just pointing out a fact i also sing rossini and i am only 29...so I know how hard it is to sing it. i just found it crazy that he missed notes...but one other thing. i also sing handel and handel is a cakewalk compared to rossini...

[BuryTone]

It's true, the timing at 2:01 isn't perfect. However, I beg to consider, we are talking of a 1959 live recording broadcasted on national television - sung by a young (not yet 30) artist doing his his first attempt with Rossini. Given those circumstances the coloratura is no less than ravishing.

For perfect accuracy of coloratura, go for his 1966 recording. Or his 1965 Xerxes. Or any Händel piece he sung beginning from 1963. His "colpi di petto" are unmatched.

[FacePaster]

I was just saying the same thing to a friend last week. I've had friends who didn't care for Corelli or Bjorling or Gigli or whomever, but I've never met a single person who did not like Wunderlich.

[ShawDAMAN]

Hmm maybe so I would need to compare or see what the score said but I see what you mean.

[js59695]

listen beginning at 2:01 the third set of 16th notes... then again at 2:45...I looked up fritz becasue honetley I dont really want to listen to everyone else...Fritz is trhe standard but I think he makes a mistake