Fischer-Dieskau - Opera Scenes 1965-1976
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Composer or Director: Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf, Giuseppe Verdi
Label: Orfeo d'or
Magazine Review Date: 5/2001
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 79
Catalogue Number: C545001B
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: Crudel! perchè finora |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Karl Böhm, Conductor Reri Grist, Soprano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: ~ |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Karl Böhm, Conductor Reri Grist, Soprano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Genoveva, Movement: Nichts hält mich mehr |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Marjana Lipovsek, Mezzo soprano Peter Schreier, Tenor Robert Schumann, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Genoveva, Movement: Bald blick ich dich wieder, mein Heimatschloss |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Marjana Lipovsek, Mezzo soprano Peter Schreier, Tenor Robert Schumann, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Genoveva, Movement: Du Golo? Herzlich sei gegrüsst! |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Marjana Lipovsek, Mezzo soprano Peter Schreier, Tenor Robert Schumann, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Szenen aus Goethes Faust, Movement: Du kanntest mich, o kleiner Engel |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Gudrun Wewezow, Mezzo soprano Julia Varady, Soprano Robert Schumann, Composer Siegmund Nimsgern, Bass-baritone Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Arabella, Movement: Sie seh'n nicht aus wie jemand |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Julia Varady, Soprano Richard Strauss, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Falstaff, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Anne Salvan, Mezzo soprano Bavarian State Opera Chorus Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Julia Varady, Soprano Kurt Moll, Bass Lucia Popp, Soprano Marjana Lipovsek, Mezzo soprano Peter Seiffert, Tenor Robert Swensen, Tenor Thomas Hampson, Baritone Ulrich Ress, Tenor Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
(Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg, '(The) Masters, Movement: ~ |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Cornelia Wulkopf, Mezzo soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Julia Varady, Soprano Richard Wagner, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
(Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg, '(The) Masters, Movement: Gut'n Abend, Meister! |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Cornelia Wulkopf, Mezzo soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Julia Varady, Soprano Richard Wagner, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
(Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg, '(The) Masters, Movement: Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn! (Wahnmonolog) |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Cornelia Wulkopf, Mezzo soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Julia Varady, Soprano Richard Wagner, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
(Der) Corregidor, Movement: Nicht geschlossen? - Nicht geschlossen! |
Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Gerd Albrecht, Conductor Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf, Composer |
Composer or Director: Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi
Genre:
Opera
Label: Orfeo d'or
Magazine Review Date: 5/2001
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 77
Catalogue Number: C544001B
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Cardillac |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Brigitte Fassbaender, Mistress Quickly, Mezzo soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Joseph Keilberth, Conductor Paul Hindemith, Composer Richard Holm, Tenor Thomas Tipton, Ford, Baritone |
(Die) Frau ohne Schatten, Movement: Mir anvertraut |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Birgit Nilsson, Soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Ernst Kozub, Melot, Tenor Ingrid Bjoner, Soprano James King, Tenor Richard Strauss, Composer Tom Krause, Kurwenal, Baritone Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
(Die) Frau ohne Schatten, Movement: Nun will ich jubeln |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Birgit Nilsson, Soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Ingrid Bjoner, Soprano James King, Tenor Peter Klein, Shepherd, Tenor Richard Strauss, Composer Theodore Kirschbichler, Steersman, Baritone Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Salome, Movement: 'Wo ist er, dessen Sündenbecher jetzt voll ist' |
Richard Strauss, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Bruno Grella, Baron, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Karl Böhm, Conductor Leonie Rysanek, Soprano Richard Strauss, Composer Walter Gullino, Gastone, Tenor Walter Gullino, Gastone, Tenor Walter Gullino, Gastone, Tenor |
Falstaff, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra David Palmer, Cyril, Tenor David Palmer, Cyril, Tenor David Palmer, Cyril, Tenor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Mary Sansom, Patience, Soprano Mary Sansom, Patience, Soprano Mary Sansom, Patience, Soprano Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Parsifal, Movement: Weh! Weh! Hoho! Auf! |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Bavarian State Orchestra Birgit Nilsson, Isolde, Soprano Christa Ludwig, Brangäne, Mezzo soprano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone Karl Helm, Bass Richard Wagner, Composer Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor |
Author:
But how good a singer? These excerpts take him from 1965, aged 40, to December 1992 and the brink of retirement. Most come from the 1970s, at the centre of his career or somewhat to the far side of it. The repertoire is also as punishing as it is rewarding. Those 15 minutes of Cardillac demand fiercely strenuous and sustained declamation. Amfortas, Jokanaan, Falstaff, Barak: all on the first disc are intense and by no means short-winded in utterance. There is never any question that Fischer-Dieskau is a German singer, not simply in language but style and technique. A guttural element that would never be native to an Italian or French singer comes into play, though usually with moderation and always with reason. On the second disc, chronologically the later one, a more emphatic style develops, and the top notes become more rawly and riskily open. Yet there is always likely to come a phrase where tone and style modulate to achieve heart-easing legato and gentleness. And, note, with all this, still no wobble.
My own favourites here are the episodes from Die Meistersinger, supporting the view of his part in the Jochum recording (DG, 10/85) as valid and valuable, despite (and partly because of) its independence of convention. He is also heard, here and in Arabella, in duets with Julia Varady, which is a delight in itself. Sawallisch is the conductor in most excerpts, all of them recordings made at the State Opera in Munich. It is fitting that the last track, the end of Falstaff, should be the finale of a concert given in honour of the conductor who was leaving the house he had served since 1971. Though few at the time were aware of it, they were taking leave of Fischer-Dieskau, too.
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