Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Recordings from the Archives

Dig deep, dig wide, there will always be something left for the archaeologists and archivists of recording to come up...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Alfred Brendel | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One of my musical regrets is that I never heard Fischer-Dieskau live in Winterreise. This DVD, made for German television...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

Beethoven: Folksong arrangements

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll | Heinrich Schiff | Yehudi Menuhin

This LP forms a pendant to the box of Beethoven songs reviewed above. I wish I could say it was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1985

Schubert Lieder

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore

What more is there to be said at this juncture about the virtues of Fischer-Dieskau in his prime (as here)...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1991

Wolf Lieder

Christa Ludwig | Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

This is the third Italienisches Liederbuch to appear in recent months. At mid-price it is, paradoxically at once a bargain...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1995

Schubert Winterreise

Alfred Brendel | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Since Fischer-Dieskau and Brendel performed the work on television and at Covent Garden (an unforgettable occasion), their account of Winterreise...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1986

ANDRIESSEN The Only One (Salonen)

Esa-Pekka Salonen | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Nora Fischer

A powerful creative force around which so many younger composers gravitated, his recognisable style admired for its ability to shape...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

Liszt/Rheinberger Vocal and Choral Works

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Leo Van Doeselaar | Manja Smits | Netherlands Chamber Choir | Rudolf Jansen | Uwe Gronostay

The real surprise here is the unaccompanied Rheinberger Mass. At his best Rheinberger rarely rose above the mediocre but, for...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1992

Mahler Lieder

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Philharmonia Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe | Wilhelm Furtwängler

Those of us who are something less than 100 per cent Mahlerians occasionally feel that the composer was at his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987

Wolf Italianisches Liederbuch

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Erik Werba | Gerald Moore | Irmgard Seefried

Regular readers will not need reminding of my inordinate love of Wolf’s song and especially of the Italian Songbook. For...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2003