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Fischer-dieskau/moore/engel - Fischer-dieskau - Centenary [CD]

Fischer-dieskau/moore/engel - Fischer-dieskau - Centenary [CD]

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SOMM Recordings is proud to mark the centenary of the legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925-18 May 2012) by adding to his canonical discography with live recital and concert recordings from the Music Preserved archive. Fischer-Dieskau was at the very height of his powers from 1960-75, and the performances on this album date from that period. A bonus CD contains two interviews conducted by Jon Tolansky--appearing here in their entirety for the first time--the 75th Birthday Interview (2000) and 80th Birthday Interview (2005). The extraordinarily vast repertoire of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau over his 45-year career comprisedlieder, operas,cantatas,andoratorios.He sang these in German, Italian, French, Russian, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Latin, from eras that spanned the Baroque to the latter part of the 20th century. Particularly, it was the controlled power and beauty of his voice, and the dramatic intensity and poetry of his interpretations, that led him to excel in the genre of Germanlieder.In this form he exerted a virtually unprecedented stylistic and interpretative influence--not only on the musical world of his day, but also on generations of performers to come. SOMM's centenary tribute opens with four songs by Ferruccio Busoni, all being works that were written late in the composer's career. They come from a programme that Fischer-Dieskau gave with Gerald Moore in 1962.At the 1971 Helsinki Festival, Fischer-Dieskau presented a recital with Irwin Gage, which was devoted entirely to songs with texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The recital, described by a contemporary critic as "a landmark event," featured compositions by contemporaries of Goethe, who lived from 1749 to 1832, such as the Countess Anna Amalia, Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter. The more familiar composers represented on this Goethe-inspired recital were active during the first part of the 20th century. They include Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and Ferruccio Busoni. This tribute to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also includes six songs from a programme of works by Gustav Mahler, which was presented with his long-time collaborator, Karl Engel. Three of the songs are from Des Knaben Wunderhorn,based on texts of German folk poems, and three are from the collection of five Ruckert-Lieder,after poems written byFriedrich Ruckert. The musical component of this collection closes with a concert performance of three songs by Zoltan Kodaly, sung in Hungarian by Fischer-Dieskau. The composer proves himself an outstanding interpreter of his own music in conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In the two interviews included on the bonus CD, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau discusses his early years, his teachers, the development of his career, and a small but revealing cross-section of his enormous repertoire.
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SOMM Recordings is proud to mark the centenary of the legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925-18 May 2012) by adding to his canonical discography with live recital and concert recordings from the Music Preserved archive. Fischer-Dieskau was at the very height of his powers from 1960-75, and the performances on this album date from that period. A bonus CD contains two interviews conducted by Jon Tolansky--appearing here in their entirety for the first time--the 75th Birthday Interview (2000) and 80th Birthday Interview (2005). The extraordinarily vast repertoire of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau over his 45-year career comprisedlieder, operas,cantatas,andoratorios.He sang these in German, Italian, French, Russian, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Latin, from eras that spanned the Baroque to the latter part of the 20th century. Particularly, it was the controlled power and beauty of his voice, and the dramatic intensity and poetry of his interpretations, that led him to excel in the genre of Germanlieder.In this form he exerted a virtually unprecedented stylistic and interpretative influence--not only on the musical world of his day, but also on generations of performers to come. SOMM's centenary tribute opens with four songs by Ferruccio Busoni, all being works that were written late in the composer's career. They come from a programme that Fischer-Dieskau gave with Gerald Moore in 1962.At the 1971 Helsinki Festival, Fischer-Dieskau presented a recital with Irwin Gage, which was devoted entirely to songs with texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The recital, described by a contemporary critic as "a landmark event," featured compositions by contemporaries of Goethe, who lived from 1749 to 1832, such as the Countess Anna Amalia, Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter. The more familiar composers represented on this Goethe-inspired recital were active during the first part of the 20th century. They include Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and Ferruccio Busoni. This tribute to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also includes six songs from a programme of works by Gustav Mahler, which was presented with his long-time collaborator, Karl Engel. Three of the songs are from Des Knaben Wunderhorn,based on texts of German folk poems, and three are from the collection of five Ruckert-Lieder,after poems written byFriedrich Ruckert. The musical component of this collection closes with a concert performance of three songs by Zoltan Kodaly, sung in Hungarian by Fischer-Dieskau. The composer proves himself an outstanding interpreter of his own music in conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In the two interviews included on the bonus CD, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau discusses his early years, his teachers, the development of his career, and a small but revealing cross-section of his enormous repertoire.
Track Listing

THE RECITALS (Total Duration 72:17)

Lied des Unmuts BV 281

Zigeunerlied BV 295a

Schlechter Trost BV 298a

Lied des Mephistopheles BV 278a

Auf dem Land

Beherzigung (Aus Lila)

Gleich und gleich

Gefunden TrV 220/1

Einsamkeit Op.75/18

Zigeunerlied BV 295a

Des Knaben Wunderhorn No. 11 - Ablösung im Sommer

Des Knaben Wunderhorn No. 6 - Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen

Des Knaben Wunderhorn No. 14 - Selbstgefühl

5 Rückert-Lieder No. 1 - Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft!

5 Rückert-Lieder No. 3 - Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder

5 Rückert-Lieder No. 5 - Um Mitterncaht

2 Songs Op.5 (K.34) - A közelítő tél (The Approaching Winter)

2 Songs Op.5 (K.34) - A közelítő tél (The Approaching Winter)

Kádár Kata K.127

THE INTERVIEWS (Total Duration 73:00)

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Earliest musical memories

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Winterreise as a teenager – Comments on Winterreise

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Opera debut as Posa in Verdi’s Don Carlos

75th Birthday Interview (2000) Singing Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Wilhelm Furtwängler – Memories of Furtwängler

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Comments on singing lieder and opera

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Stage direction in opera

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Hans Sachs in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Iago in Verdi’s Otello

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Mandryka in Strauss’s Arabella

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Championing new contemporary music

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Berg’s Wozzeck

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Reimann’s Lear

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Conducting career – Recollections of renowned conductors

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing with Britten

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Teaching singing to pupils

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Piano Accompanists

75th Birthday Interview (2000) - Painting

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Early days becoming a singer

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Winterreise as a teenager – Comments on Winterreise

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Grieg Songs

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Wolf Lieder

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Young people coming to study with him

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Busoni’s Doktor Faust

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Wotan and Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the role of Wotan with Herbert von Karajan

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing the title role in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Singing Hans Sachs in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - “Revelge” in Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn

80th Birthday Interview (2000) - Painting

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  • Genre: Classical
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
  • Barcode: 758871503822
  • Release Date: May 16, 2025
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