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Fischer-Dieskau - (Die) Salzburger Liederabende, 1956-65
A latecomer to the celebration of the great baritone’s 80th birthday, the Orfeo issue is by far the most important...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2005
Fischer-Dieskau sings Opera Arias I
The second volume of opera arias is much the more interesting. The first eight tracks derive from a 1961 recital...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2000
Fischer-Dieskau - Opera Scenes 1965-1976
This won’t do for the all-or-nothing people, those who complain of bleeding chunks and defend the inviolable integrity of an...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Edwin Fischer plays Bach Concertos
The Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer (Brendel's teacher) enjoyed a considerable reputation in the 1930s as an interpreter of the classics...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989
SCHOECK Vom Fischer un syner Fru (Venzago)
Othmar Schoeck is probably best known for his song collections, continuing the melancholic romanticism of the Schubert-Wolf tradition into the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2019
Edwin Fischer plays Beethoven
Expect little light in the sound world of Allan Pettersson. Emotionally this is music of the deepest Northern winter: battered...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1998
Fischer-Dieskau - The Opera Singer
The seventieth-birthday presents are still coming in, and here is EMI’s to Fischer-Dieskau the opera singer. Neither fully representative nor...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
SCHUBERT Winterreise
This issue in the DG Originals series appeared just in time, appropriately enough, to mark Fischer-Dieskau's 70th birthday at the...
Reviewed in issue 08/1995
Annie Fischer Collection - Mozart Piano Concertos
Annie Fischer | Budapest Symphony Orchestra | Ervin Lukács
Born in 1914, the Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer was already playing Mozart concertos in public at the age of 12...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
Annie Fischer in Concert, Montreal 1984
Tempting as it is to seek out performances of an artist’s central repertory in live rather than studio performances, the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2000
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