MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Smetana: The Bartered Bride (complete opera recorded in German in 1962)
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FRIEDRICH SMETANA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Smetana: The Bartered Bride (complete opera recorded in German in 1962)
Pilar Lorengar, Gottlob Frick, Fritz Wunderlich / Bamberger Symphoniker / Rudolf Kempe
[ EMI Classics Electrola Collection / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 24 August 2011
Smetana's masterpiece with Fritz Wunderlich: Among the German-language recordings, experts agree that this is the best: Fritz Wunderlich at the height of his powers, Pilar Lorengar in what is "perhaps her best recording" (Jürgen Kesting) and Gottlob Frick, who lends the comic character of the marriage broker a hint of authority and dignity. Last but not least, Rudolf Kempe conducts with controlled panache.
