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...Sure,' God said. 'I'm Hero of Heaven. I call on Myself.' That was when He began His explanations. He revealed the secrets of books, of pictures and music . . . why marches were more selfish than anthems, lieder less stirring than scat, why landscapes were to be preferred over portraits, how statues of women were superior to statues of men but less impressive than engravings on postage. He told them how to choose wines and why solos were more acceptable to Him than duets. He told them the secret causes of inflation...
Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Two Songs for Alto and Viola, Eight Lieder (Mezzo Janet Baker, Pianist André Previn; Angel). Set to biblical passages about death, suffering and love, Brahms' late songs have a stately quality that Baker's dark, resonant voice conveys perfectly. Her low notes thrill with their sad, serene beauty...
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...
...will take off the season of 1978-79, a lucrative period at this stage in her career. She plans to spend more time with her husband of three years, Peter Elkus, a baritone who is just getting his own career going. She wants to have children and do more lieder singing, where, she says, "you paint everything with your voice...