Stories Sacred

Stories about Wunderlich's meteoric rise to success, his incredibly heavy workload or his seemingly effortless acquisition of new repertoire have been told again and again - sometimes painting an idealized and sometimes a distorted picture of the artist. The nine installments of the SWR retrospective that have been released by SWR CLASSIC to this day feature Fritz Wunderlich as a singer of songs, (an unequalled) Mozart tenor, a brilliant interpreter of the greatest tenor hits, a fascinating singer of operettas and as a tasteful interpreter of light music, to name but a few of the genres that made up his repertoire.

The Bible has been written, recorded and presented in a number of ways in a multitude of formats. It’s difficult to choose a selection of passages from the Bible to create a ‘Greatest Hits’ vibe, without offending someone by missing out passages they believe to be key or that speak to them on a personal level. Do you give both the Old and New Testaments the same air time or do you lean, with your own bias, on the Testament that resonates with you?