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ALBUMBach: Cantatas (RIAS Studio Recordings from Berlin, 1949-1952)Johanna Behrend, Edith Berger-Krebs, Gertrud Birmele, Marie-Luise Denicke, Agnes Giebel, Gerda Lammers, Lilo Rolwes, Gunthild Weber, Lorri Lail, Ingrid Lorenzen, Annelies Westen, Charlotte Wolf-Matthaus, Helmut Krebs, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Walter Hauck, Gerhard Niese, RIAS Knabenchor, RIAS Kammerchor, RIAS Kammerorchester & Karl Ristenpart
ALBUMFerenc Fricsay Conducts Béla Bartok - The Early RIAS Recordings (Live and Studio Recordings from Berlin, 1950-1953) [Ferenc Fricsay & RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester]Ferenc Fricsay, Tibor Varga, Rudolf Schulz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Helmut Krebs, Andor Foldes, Géza Anda, Louis Kentner & RIAS Symphonie-Orchester
ALBUMStrauss, R.: CapriccioKarl Schmitt-Walter, Hans Hotter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Rudolf Christ, Dennis Wicks, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Philharmonia Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, Christa Ludwig, Dermot Troy, Eberhard Wächter, Manoug Parikian, Anna Moffo, Edgar Fleet, Raymond Clark, David Winnard, Edward Darling, Lesley Fyson, Geoffrey Walls, John Hauxwell & Ian Humphries
ALBUMSchutz, H.: Vocal Music (1953-1959)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Rolf Oscher, Hermann Klaiss, Max Schulze, Lisedore Praetorius, Else Gohrum, Stuttgarter Kantatenchor, Karl Gerok, August Langenbeck, Stuttgart Hymnus Boys Choir, Ulrich Schaible, Heinz Kirchner, August Messthaler, Marianne Ott, Heinz Moster, Tobias Kuhne, Hermann Hirschfelder, Walter Henschel, Richard Zellter, Ludwig Bertz, Josef Fersch, Gert Frankel & Bertha Krimm
About Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Artist Biography
There has never been a greater or more influential master of the art song (and especially its German form, the Lied) than Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His elegant baritone was a model of refinement, minutely responsive to text and so skilled at telling stories through music that he could turn three minutes of Schubert into a miniature opera. But then, he was also an opera singer of distinction, celebrated for the agile intelligence he brought to Mozart, Strauss and Wagner roles across a 31-year career. Born in 1925, he grew up in wartime Berlin, and as a 17-year-old he sang his first Winterreise—Schubert’s harrowing song cycle about a winter journey—in a suburb of that city, in a performance interrupted by RAF bombers. Such experiences left their mark and fed into the peculiar poignancy he brought to the Lieder repertoire—which he recorded with an encyclopaedic thoroughness. Nearly every song of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and Mendelssohn was committed to disc at least once (in the case of Winterreise, eight times!). And they contributed to a vast discography including many of his stage roles: the Count in Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Kurwenal in the legendary 1952 Furtwängler recording of Tristan. Intellectual curiosity drew him into partnership with contemporary composers like Britten, who wrote War Requiem’s baritone solos for him to premiere in 1962 (a telling gesture given Fischer-Dieskau’s past). And such new works sat alongside the Bach Passions as an interest he maintained until his retirement on New Year's Day, 1993. He died, aged 86, in 2012.
Hometown
Berlin, Germany
Genre
Classical
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