Word: lieder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHUBERT: DIE WINTERREISE (Angel; 2 LPs). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the greatest living lieder singer, sings some of Schubert's greatest lieder-a 24-part cycle about a rejected lover who sets out on a winter journey of despair, tantalized by everything he sees and dreams. These were Schubert's own favorites among his songs and were written just a year before his death at 31. Hermann Prey, a younger German baritone of growing renown, has also recorded Die Winterreise (Vox; 2 LPs). His voice is richer, but his interpretation is less subtle: while Fischer-Dieskau suffers a hundred...
...about 50 similarly dedicated instrumentalists and singers from abroad have turned up for the series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from 13th century motets to Korean twelve-tone, are directed by Georgia-born Pianist Charles Wadsworth, a noted lieder accompanist who performed at one of Jackie Kennedy's White House soir...
...concert-favorite like Scarlatti's Le Violette pleases us anew when clothed in such velvety beauty of sound as the Spanish soprano produced last Wednesday. Still more noteworthy--because less expected--was the increased command which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner. Der Tod und das Madchen, on the other hand, conveyed such a deep sense of both the terror...
...took up the direction of the new Norway Opera and retired happily to her great wood house in Kristiansand, on Norway's south coast. There, amid heavy paintings and great music, she knitted, played solitaire, entertained her friends with evenings of Schumann and Schubert, softly singing the lieder to her own accompaniment. And always, there was the suggestion that given some encouragement, she could still sing the great Liebestod, the song of love-unto-death that belonged to Flagstad...
...concert halls a U.S.-born singer who has already made it big in Europe. This season's entry is Mezzo-Soprano Grace Bumbry, 25, who made her Manhattan concert debut last week in Carnegie Hall. Her performance of Duparc songs, Italian songs, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Strauss lieder and Negro spirituals was eloquent exposition of a native talent that has been too long coming home...