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SCHUBERT'S SONGS, A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY by DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU Translated by KENNETH S. WHITTON 333 pages. Knopf...
Dietrich sings lieder. Fischer is the Bach specialist. And Dieskau stars in opera. So goes the legend of the most subtle, intellectual and prolific baritone of the past 25 years. If there is a Kunstlied (art song) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has not recorded in that mellifluous, burnished voice, it is not worth the vinyl. He has of late taken up conducting, and his lyric versions of Schubert's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8 ("Unfinished") can be found on an Angel LP. Yet Fischer-Dieskau has found the time and talent for a new career: literature. Last year he produced...
...latest work is a learned, immensely readable study of Schubert's life and songs. The volume grew out of a long article Fischer-Dieskau wrote for his three-volume, 29-LP collection of Schubert lieder issued by Deutsche Grammophon seven years ago. There is also a companion volume, the Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder (Knopf; $15), containing texts and new translations of the singer's favorite German songs...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger: Baritone Norman Bailey, Tenor Rene Kollo, Soprano Hannelore Bode; Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti conducting (5 LPs, London). Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tenor Placido Domingo, Soprano Catarina Ligendza; Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, Eugen Jochum conducting (5 LPs, Deutsche Grammophon). Here are two performances-one extraordinary, one merely excellent-of an operatic marvel that over the years has proved difficult to commit to disc. The Solti is the more spacious and relaxed of the two; because of London's typically distant engineering, it also has a more homogenized sound...
...Celebrity Series season runs from October through April, and concerts are either at Symphony Hall or Jordan Hall. This year will feature such orchestras as the Cleveland Symphony and the London Philharmonic, pianists Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Serkin, and Lazar Berman, vocalists Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Janet Baker, and violinists Henryk Szeryng and Itzhak Perlman. Tickets are about what you'd expect to pay for performers of this magnitude, falling in the $5-$9 range. But if you're going to hear a concert, you might as well hear some of the best...