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Mendelssohn Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Wolfgang Sawallisch
With new enthusiasm for Mendelssohn in the air in bracing performances of the symphonies and eager rediscoveries of the chamber...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1993
Beethoven Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
Fischer-Dieskau has of course recorded many Beethoven songs before, and these three records reflect his latest thoughts. They are very...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1985
PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Fischer)
Thierry Fischer pairs two contrasting Prokofiev film scores in this Utah Symphony release: the gritty, rarely heard cantata Alexander Nevsky...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020
Mahler Symphony No 4
What no one will deny is the amazing unanimity and precision of the playing here and the superlative quality of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2009
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Wolfgang Sawallisch
Here is another invaluable addition to the series of live performances by Fischer-Dieskau from the Salzburg Festival, and one that...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 1. Carnival of the Animals (Fischer)
Thierry Fischer | Utah Symphony Orchestra
Saint-Saëns was just 15 when he wrote his A major Symphony (1850), and while it’s not notably inventive, the workmanship...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Schubert Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Sviatoslav Richter
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's retirement from the concert platform signals yet another release from the Austrian Radio archive: this latest of the...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1994
Schumann Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
These are two of Fischer-Dieskau's very last recitals, given in the month of his sixty-seventh birthday, shortly before...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1995
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | James King | Leonard Bernstein | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernstein is, I believe, the only conductor who has recorded Das Lied von der Erde with contralto and also with...
Reviewed in issue 5/1989
Lutoslawski Symphony 3, etc.
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Witold Lutoslawski
CBS are to be congratulated on not spreading the Turangalila-symphonie over two complete CDs. But the couplings do seem primarily...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987
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