Evert Jan Nagtegaal talking about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (100)
Bariton,
28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012
Coming 28 May it’ll be a hundred years ago that the German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born. He has been without a doubt the most important and most interesting German singer who has ever lived. Compared to the standard of the ‘Three Tenors’ this might mean little, but for a baritone it is sensational – a baritone who specialised in the Lieder repertoire and its recordings.
His career as a singer started in the late 1940s and stretched until 1992, after which he only performed as a speaker and conductor. That’s a really long career, in which he traversed the entire German Lieder repertoire, multiple times in fact: he recorded Schubert’s Winterreise twelve times, including an additional video, and each time he sang with the most famous and best accompanying musicians at the time. His legacy includes more than 400 recorded LPs and CDs. We’ll listen to a tiny selection of this coming hour.
Playlist
- George Frideric Handel – ‘Va’ tacito e nascosto’ (from: Giulio Cesare) Baritone Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Münchner Bach-Orchester conducted by Karl Richter.
- Hugo Wolf – 5 Lieder with lyrics of Eduard Möricke 1.’Heimweh’2.’Fussreise’ 3. ‘Gebet’ 4. ‘Abschied’ 5. ‘In der Frühe’ Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and pianist Gerald Moore.
- Claude Debussy – 1. ‘Beau soir’ (Paul Bourget) 2. ‘Mandoline’ (Verlaine) 3. ‘Le jet d’eau’ (Beaudelaire) 4. ‘Cheveaux de bois’ (Verlaine).
Baritone Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau and pianist Hartmut Höll. - Franz Schubert – 1. ‘Heliopolis’ D754 (Mayrhofer) 2. ‘Abendstern’ D806 (Mayrhofer) 3. ‘Des Sängers Habe D832 (Schlechta)
Baritone Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau and pianist Hartmut Höll - Franz Liszt – 1. ‘Es mus sein Wunderbares sein’ (Oscar von Redwitz) 2. ‘Der traurige Mönch’ (Lenau) 3. ‘O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst’ (Ferdinand Freiligrath)
Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and pianist Jörg Demus.
