Word: fischer-dieskau
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...proviso and no stipend for rehearsal time. The top salary is $1,800 per performance; international stars earn as much as $12,000 a night. So Sussex gets them early or not at all: Pavarotti, Frederica von Stade and Kathleen Battle all passed through, but Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Cecilia Bartoli slipped...
BEETHOVEN: AN DIE FERNE GELIEBTE/BRAHMS: VIER ERNSTE GESAENGE (Deutsche Grammophon). Tenors, sopranos, basses, mezzos: eat your hearts out! The best classical singer since World War II is baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who proves it on this dazzling lieder collection...
...adept at the histrionic demands of opera and the more intimate sentiments of lieder. He is in demand at the world's great opera houses, has made dozens of recordings and in his native Germany has had his own television show. Along with his colleague and rival Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has long been regarded as a leading German baritone of his generation, and possesses a more beautiful voice than Fischer-Dieskau. So why is Hermann Prey restless...
...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...
Most of the current Schubert literature is based, as Fischer-Dieskau notes, on the documents unearthed and published in 1946 by the Austrian scholar Otto Erich Deutsch. Compared with the 1,500 letters of Beethoven that still exist, the Schubert documentation is woefully small. Use of the songs to fill in some of the "psychological gaps" is a potentially dangerous technique. Mozart, for example, produced joyous music in desperate circumstances. With Schubert, however, it seems an acceptable approach. Aside from his school teaching and boozy sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from...