Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Early recordings, an anthology

Schubert, Franz;
Schumann, Robert;
Brahms, Johannes;
Wolf, Hugo;
Strauss, Richard;
Loewe, Carl;
Beethoven, Ludwig van;
Haydn, Joseph;
Telemann, Georg Philipp;
Donizetti, Gaetano;
Lortzing, Albert;
Gluck, Christoph Willibald;
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus;
Wagner, Richard;
Tchaikovsky, Piotr;
Puccini, Giacomo;
Verdi, Giuseppe;
Handel, George Frideric;
Rossini, Gioachino;
Gounod, Charles;
Hindemith, Paul;
Schütz, Heinrich;
Tunder, Franz;
Bruhns, Nicolaus;
Bach, Johann Christoph;
Pepping, Ernst;
Mahler, Gustav

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

PH 20074

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is undoubtedly one of the greatest vocalists of the past century – and one of those with the most extensive discography. Yet we constantly note the disappearance from the catalogue of early recordings for radio or gramophone, particularly those which covered less popular repertoire. And there are a number of recordings that have simply never been issued on CD. The present anthology aims to bridge this gap.

The “Four Serious Songs” by Johannes Brahms (CD 2) recorded in November 1949 for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (DGG) are the first gramophone recordings of Lieder to have been made by the future grand master of the German Lied repertoire. The first ever sound recording by Fischer-Dieskau – so far as is known – is also in this anthology: the live broadcast from the Städtische Oper Berlin of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos (in German, as was then customary) by R

CD x 7

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02-09-2021

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