Smetana: Prodaná nevesta (in German)

• Cast: Fritz Wunderlich (Jenik/Hans), Pilar Lorengar (Marenka/Marie), Gottlob Frick (Kecal), Marcel Cordes (Kruschina), Nada Puttar, Ivan Sardi (Micha), Sieglinde Wagner (Agnes), Karl-Ernst Mercker (Vaclav/Wenzel), Ernst Krukowski, Gertrud Freedmann, Walter Stoll, RIAS-Kammerchor, Bamberger Symphoniker, cond. Rudolf Kempe

• "[Fritz Wunderlich] is an absolutely unsurpassable Hans (not even reached by his Czech colleagues). The extremely tricky C major aria in Act 2 not only develops efortlessly the lyric potential of his virile tenor voice which is equally profound in all registers; it also shows underlich as a sensitive, intelligent creator who exactly comprehends every possibility of dynamic increase. An outstanding success." (Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich in "Opernwelt", 12/1972)
• "Perhaps the most successful of [Wunderlich's] Electrola recordings is Smetana's Bartered Bride, a recording that reveals Wunderlich's great comic talent, and shows the fun and sheer joy he is able to communicate to the listener." (Henrik Engelbrecht in Gramophone's "International Opera Collector", Spring 1998)

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	EMI CMS 764002 2 (2 CD)
	EMI 7 49279 2 (2 CD)
	EMI 9630202 (2 CD)
	Electrola 91226/28 E (3 LP)
	Electrola 91226/28 SME (3 LP)
	Electrola 91226/28 STE (3 LP)
	EMI 149-30967/69 (3 LP)
	EMI 1C 153-28922/23 (2 LP)
	EMI EX 29 1295 3 (? LP)
	EMI HQS 1132-1134 (3 LP)
	Angel 3642 (? LP)
	HMV ALP 1971-1973 (3 LP)
	HMV ASD 522-524 (3 LP)

Highlights on

	EMI 7 69094 2 Studio
	Electrola 80476 E
	Electrola 80476 SME
	Electrola 80476 STE
	EMI 1C 063-29002
	HMV SLS 777

Excerpts on

	EMI 7243 5 68916 2 ("Komm, mein Söhnchen, auf ein Wort", + other opera excerpts on "Welcome to the Opera", 3 CD)
	EMI 7 67187 2 ("Komm mein Söhnchen, auf ein Wort" on "Gottlob Frick - Portrait eine großen Bassisten", 3 CD)
	EMI CZS 7 62993 2 ("Komm', mein Söhnchen, auf ein Wort" and "So find' ich dich, ... - Mein lieber Schatz" on "FW - The Great German Tenor", 3 CD)
	EMI 5 67452 2 ("Mit der Mutter sank zu Grabe" on "Great moments of... FW", 3 CD)
	EMI 5759152 ("Armer Narr!" and "So find' ich dich, ... - Mein lieber Schatz" on "The very best of FW", 2 CD)
	Angel 6157 (on ?)
	Electrola 80769 E ("Es muß gelingen" on "O holde Dame")
	Electrola 80769 STE ("Es muß gelingen" on "O holde Dame")
	Electrola 80847 E (on ?)
	Electrola 80847 SME (on ?)
	Electrola 80994 SME ("So find' ich dich, Feinsliebchen, hier..." on "Weltstars singen berühmte Liebesduette")
	EMI 1C 037 32200 ("Armer Narr, glaubest du, mich zu fangen? - Es muß gelingen" on "Berühmte Opernsänger - Das Jahrhundert der Schallplatte")
	EMI 1C 063 28173 (on "FW Ein Opernabend")
	EMI 1C 063 28420 ("Es muß gelingen" on "O holde Dame")
	EMI 1C 063 30144 (on ?)
	EMI 137 EX 29 0988 3 (on "Fritz Wunderlich der große deutsche Tenor", 3 LP)
	EMI 1C 148 31205 (on ?)
	EMI 1C 187 29298/99 (on "FW In Memoriam", 2 LP)

Fritz Wunderlich Discography