PETER ANDERS

 

Arias and duets by Weber, Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Bizet, Puccini, Smetana

with Sena Jurinac

 

Orchestra of the Berlin State Opera/ Artur Rother

Südwestfunk Orchester, Baden-Baden/ Otto Ackerman

Württembergisches Staatsorchester, Stuttgart/ Ferdinand Leitner

Munich Philharmonic/ Leopold Ludwig/ Heinrich Hollreiser

RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester/ Kurt Gaebel

 

Admirers of Peter Anders are still discussing today, half a century after his death, whether the singer might have gone down in opera history as a unique Wagnerian tenor if only he had lived longer. Anyone who had the good fortune to hear him on stage during the second part of his career as Otello, Stolzing or Andrea Chénier will appreciate what a great loss his death meant to the world of the heldentenor.

 

Recorded in German 1952-3 for Electrola, DGG & Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden

 

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