Word: lieder
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...flagpole in the courtyard of the 13th century stone barn, the black, red and gold stripes of Germany flew above the red hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. It was a tribute to German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...
...other players could have done what Richter did with the piano music either. Fischer-Dieskau sang the 15 Magelone Romances by Brahms in one recital, 20 of Hugo Wolf's Mörike Lieder in another. Richter matched FischerDieskau's richly expressive voice in every curve of melody, every nuance of shading, every dramatic inflection, making the piano not so much an embellishment of the vocal line as a second voice that sang along with...
Today, 56 years after his death, it has. His nine symphonies and the unfinished Tenth, several symphonic song cycles and numerous lieder came out of eclipse after World War II, nudged into the periphery of standard works in the early '60s, and now-played and appreciated as never before-are sparking a full-scale Mahler boom...
...band in Faust. But he is really a frustrated conductor. In the theater, in the subway, walking along the street, his hands are continually dancing as he sings and hums some aria playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office, he has been known to sneak a baton out of his desk drawer and direct with full arm movements the music pouring over the house speaker system...
SCHUMANN: DICHTERLIEBE AND LIEDERKREIS (Deutsche Grammophon). One of the very finest lieder recordings since the war. The artist's vocal beauty, technique, phrasing, intelligence and imagination combine to magnify Schumann's songs and Heine's words. The singer, of course, is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau...