Posted on 05/18/2012 1:41:05 PM PDT by EveningStar
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone whose beautiful voice and mastery of technique made him the 20th centurys pre-eminent interpreter of art songs, died on Friday at his home in Bavaria. He was 86.
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"Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt" (St Anthony of Padua's Fish-Preaching)
Mahler used that song very effectively as the scherzo of his Second Symphony.
Yep, like Handel and Mozart, he believed in recycling!
Fischer-Dieskau, conducted by Klemperer.
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A legend of classical music. He will be sorely missed.
Sung by Fischer-Dieskau. This is Schumann writing in his blockbuster mode.
That is very fine. What a voice!
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At the first performance in Dresden, the audience was in tears during that fourth movement. Clara Schumann, who had just lost Robert, was crying like a baby.
Fischer-Dieskau sings one of my favorite Schubert songs.
Salve
That man was like Pavorotti, an excelent voice. He is missed in of familia in Bawaria.
Merci
Prey, Wunderlich, Schock, Fischer-Dieskau...who’s left of the great Kammersaeger?
Kammersaeger = Kammersaenger
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Thanks to the hard work of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at their lieder school at Aldeburgh, there is a new generation out there making a name for itself. They left a good legacy.
A giant, and one of the last who was a living link to the great German/Austrian tradition.
We won’t see his kind again.
RIP.
I’ll always remember his lyric baritone in Der Winterreise.
RIP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Von Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau gesungen.
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