Word: lieder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan's Salzburg Festival. The material is her familiar mix of early English songs by Purcell and Handel, German lieder, French chansons, and spirituals, but she sings with such crystalline vocalism and beguiling elan that it becomes irresistible. Levine's elegant pianism is a model of the accompanist...
...wonderful success in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten. I remember exhausting rehearsals with Richard Strauss. He really was a very simple family man, entirely devoted to his temperamental wife-he was really a henpecked husband. I sang a lot of his lieder, and often his wife Pauline would listen. Sometimes Pauline would run to him, throwing her arms around him, saying with big sobs of touch ing sentimentality, "Do you remember, Richard?"-and he would have tears in his eyes, too. They were a strange couple. They fought like mad-needless to say, Pauline always started these...
Onstage, he cuts a splendid figure: blond and handsome, with impossibly blue eyes, an athletic carriage and an assured, commanding presence. His distinctive, honey-rich, seductive lyric baritone voice is equally 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...
...riotous Paris premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913? The hostile demonstration in Vienna that prevented the first performance of two of Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder a couple of months earlier? The disruptive reception accorded Verdi's La Traviata or Puccini's Madama Butterfly...