Wolf Spanisches Liederbuch

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Gerald Moore

The Spanish Songbook contains some of Wolf's most inspired songs—and a few that are among his weakest. He stretches here...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1989

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Autumn Journey

This is pretty well what such things should be. The mind learns almost equally by eye and by ear. Enough...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Schumann Lieder

Alfred Brendel | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Geoffrey Parsons | Olaf Bär

No sooner has one finished comparing Bar in these cycles with Fischer-Dieskau than the indefatigable baritone, now in his sixties,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1986

Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1

Edwin Fischer

Edwin Fischer’s 1933-36 HMV set of Bach’s 48 was the first recording by a pianist of the set, and it...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

R. Strauss: Lieder

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Wolfgang Sawallisch

This is a selection from the three-record boxed set reviewed in January, and there will be many who will prefer...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985

Shostakovich Choral Works

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Vladimir Ashkenazy

There have been fine recordings of Shostakovich's penultimate and antepenultimate opuses sung by Evgeni Nesterenko—indeed the Michelangelo Suite won a...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

MOZART Symphonies Vol 2

Adám Fischer | Danish National Chamber Orchestra

It takes a fanatical Mozartian to claim these prepubescent symphonies as masterpieces. Yet each of them reveals the 12-year-old composer...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2013

WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder. Tristan und Isolde Prelude and Liebestod

Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Julia Varady

This is a truly riveting recital of Wagner from Varady (magnificent singing) and Fischer- Dieskau. Varady's reading of the Wesendonk...

Reviewed in issue

Wagner Scenes from Tannhäuser, Lohengrin & Die Walküre

Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian State Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Julia Varady | Peter Seiffert

This CD was issued by EMI Germany some six years ago at full price, but never released in the UK....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2002

Busoni Doktor Faust

Anton de Ridder | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Ferdinand Leitner | Franz Grundheber | Hans Sotin | Hildegard Hillebrecht | Karl Christian Kohn | Manfred Schmidt

Sooner or later there must be a new recording of Doktor Faust: it is an opera great enough to need...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1989