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Wolfgang Brendel.(Sound Recording Review)
by Rossini, Mozart, Offenbach, Gounod, Wagner and Verdi. Chorus, Orchestra of the Munich Radio, Wallberg. 1981. No texts or translations. Orfeo C 177 021 A (Qualiton, dist.)
Wolfgang Brendel made his Met debut as Mozart's Count Almaviva in 1975, a month before his twenty-eighth birthday and six years before he recorded this grabbag of popular arias. Germanic specialties have dominated his career in New York, up to and including a most sympathetic Music Master last season in Ariadne auf Naxos. The Munich native occasionally drifted into Italian repertory, however, with three excursions as Miller in Luisa Miller (1988) mid a couple of appearances as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (1995). Most notably, Carlos Kleiber chose him to sing Giorgio Germont opposite the Violerta of Edita Gruberova in the new Traviata of 1989.
One would like to regard Brendel as a Wolfgang of most baritonal trades. The evidence on this reissue, however, suggests certain idiomatic limitations. The voice is undeniably attractive, a bit breathy at the bottom, perhaps, but exceptionally warm and rich in the middle and capable of considerable thrust ...
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