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Fischer Vocal Works
Bohemianborn Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (16561746) is remembered today mainly for his keyboard works‚ which include a set of 20...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Mahler Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Karl Engel
This disc is BBC Legends’ tribute to Fischer-Dieskau on his 75th birthday, and how rewarding it is. The singer is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Lieder 1850-1950
Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hermann Reutter
This is such an important collection that it seems a pity to begin with a reservation, but it’s a serious...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2000
BRAHMS 7 Fantasies Op 116. 2 Rhapsodies Op 79 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 (Elena Fischer-Dieskau)
In the booklet Elena Fischer-Dieskau’s biography coyly says she was ‘born into a family of musicians’, which hardly sums up...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2021
Reimann Lear
DG has waited for the comprehensive celebrations of Fischer-Dieskau’s 75th birthday to launch the CD release of Lear, an opera...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2000
Berg: Early Songs
Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
An unexpected and delightful contribution to the commemoration of Berg's centenary this year. The anniversary has already been handsomely marked...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1985
Zelter: Lieder
Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Probably the most important relationship in Carl Zelter's life was his friendship with Goethe, and it is ironic that this...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985
JS BACH St Mark Passion (Savall. Fischer)
There are two printed sources of the St Mark Passion libretto but its music is completely lost. Since the 1870s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019
Loewe: Lieder and Ballads
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
There are two attitudes to Loewe here, and two styles of performing him. In the notes accompanying his recital, Fischer-Dieskau...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1988
Schubert Winterreise
Dalton Baldwin | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore | Gérard Souzay
Neither of these accounts of Winterreise is the one I would have chosen to represent the respective singer. In the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003
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