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...SCHUBERT'S SONGS, A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY by DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU Translated by KENNETH S. WHITTON 333 pages. Knopf...
...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 Wagner and Nietzsche, a lively account of the celebrated battle of composer and philosopher...
...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...
Veronica Jochum, pianist, performs with the Berlin Philharmonic Octet presenting "An Evening With Schubert" in New England conservatory's Jordan Hall...
Nermin Ciragan, pianist, will play works of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt in the Cabot Hall Living Room, South House...