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Review of Carl Loewe Ballades and Lieder

Carl Loewe Ballades and Lieder

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Jörg Demus

DG

Carl Loewe is remembered above all as a ballad composer – Heinrich Bulthaupt’s study of him (Berlin: 1898) is even...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996

Review of Edwin Fischer plays Mozart

Edwin Fischer plays Mozart

Edwin Fischer | Royal Danish Orchestra

Music & Arts

Harald Saeverud’s Third Symphony very nearly maintains cogency over its 44 minutes; quite an achievement when the material is so...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998

Review of Schubert Winterreise

Schubert Winterreise

Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore | Jörg Demus

DG

You wouldn't think that a recording by Fischer-Dieskau, given his huge discography, especially where Schubert is concerned, could still offer...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2000

Review of Nietzsche Lieder & Piano Works

Nietzsche Lieder & Piano Works

Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elmar Budde

Philips

Booklet-essays need to be positive, so when Roger Hollinrake declares that “the accomplishment of Nietzsche’s surviving songs is not in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1996

Review of Annie Fischer - A profile

Annie Fischer - A profile

Annie Fischer | Artur Rodzinski | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini | Giusto Cappone | Igor Markevitch | János Starker | London Symphony Orchestra | Lovro von Matacic | Milan La Scala Orchestra

Profile

More old friends neatly and economically packaged, although one’s gratitude is at least partially compromised by the fact that most...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Review of Schoeck Unter Sternen

Schoeck Unter Sternen

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll

Claves

The two books of Unter Sternen comprise some 25 songs in all. It was begun late in 1941 when Schoeck...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1986

Review of Hindemith Lieder

Hindemith Lieder

Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Orfeo

There are two Hindemiths here, neatly represented by two settings of the same text. In 1919 Hindemith set a German...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1988

Review of Schubert Winterreise

Schubert Winterreise

Alfred Brendel | Bavarian State Opera Orchestra | Berlin Opera Orchestra | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Eric Schneider | Erika Köth | Eva Maria Rogner | Ferenc Fricsay

Deutsche Grammophon

However many versions of Fischer-Dieskau singing Winterreise you may own, this one – televised in Berlin in 1979 – is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2006

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 5

MAHLER Symphony No 5

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Channel Classics

Mahler once said that conductors would take the central Scherzo of the Fifth Symphony – the fulcrum of the piece...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2013

Review of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

(Karl) Ristenpart Chamber Orchestra | Alan Ewing | Alexander Young | Alexei Grigorev | Alfredo Giacomotti | Alicia Nafé | Alison Browner | Ann Murray | Anna Maria Panzarella | Anna Reynolds

Original Masters

If some virgin ear drawn to inspired singing were to ask why that protean artist Fischer-Dieskau was considered such a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2005

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