Hi folks, According to the NEWS on Monika's website, there is a new DFD book scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2003. It seems to be co-authored (or maybe...
Thank you (also to the German List: Dankeschon!) for the info about the forthcoming book! A frivolous question - why did DiFiDi decide to use his "second"...
Hi folks, I was surprised to see that the instructions for DFD's July master class in Woergl (Austria) tell prospective students to send a demo-tape to DFD at...
Dear Celia, during my last holidays in Berlin in summer 2001 I knew from a CD/records shopkeeper that FiDi lived in Berlin-Zehlendorf, so his home address in...
Dear Gaetano & List, DFD was born in Zehlendorf and spent most of his childhood and youth in Lichterfelde, now both suburbs of Berlin. However, he has lived in...
Dear List and Forum, has someone known something new about the following scheduled release, which was announced some months ago? FRANÇAIX, Gargantua...
Gianfranco Mormino
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Copyright 2003 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd. The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario) May 9, 2003 Friday Final Edition HEADLINE: KWS offers different Schubert ...
Copyright 2003 The Financial Times Limited Financial Times (London) April 25, 2003, Friday USA Edition 1 HEADLINE: Stark evocation of haunting Edwardian evil...
Copyright 2003 Nationwide News Pty Limited The Mercury (Australia) May 10, 2003 Saturday HEADLINE: SOUNDS BYLINE: GREG BARNS BODY: Quartet for the End of Time...
Copyright 2003 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd. The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario) May 5, 2003 Monday Final Edition HEADLINE: Symphony tackles difficult...
Hi folks, I have added three more pictures of Martin F-D to the "Photos" section of the page. They are all pretty small, unfortunately, and all come from his...
Dear Angelos & List, ... I bet Daddy F-D doesn't have much use for Zender's "Winterreise" composition, or whatever it is called. However, it is not the first ...
Hi Celia, as a matter of fact, DFD would never appreciate Zender´s Winterreise, "a composed interpretation", because DFD sees so many ways of interpretating...
Hi folks, The excerpt from a newspaper article (below) refers to a DFD master class pupil named Ernst Buscagne, whom we got to hear last year in the DFD master...
Dear Werner & List, ... Winterreise, "a composed interpretation", because DFD sees so many ways of interpretating the cycle with the usual "singer plus piano"....
Hi folks, As you know, the two words "intellectual" and "mannered" are often applied to the singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. I have often wondered just what...
I doubt that the people who use such terms could explain concretely what they think they mean by them. But Walter Legge did say that DFD's stress on final...
Dear Celia, not properly an enlightenment, but just my opinion is what I'm about to express on this topic. Well, I'm quite sure that some critics/interviewers...
Hi Celia, Very funny statement about this "definitive" seance version of the Winterreise. Not regarding the circumstances whether Moore lives or not, I...
Bravo Gaetano - that's just my opinion! Bye Maggy ... From: Gaetano de Musso <sincopear@...> To: <Fischer-DieskauList@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May...
Dear Charlie & List, Thanks for responding to my query. ... This is true, but Walter Legge and DFD didn't like each other, so I think you have to take what...
just to add my nonsense to this thread: there is a difference between "voiced" consonants and non-voiced. voiced consonants that "glide" are capable of...
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I'm a singer I have a baritone voice and....I speak very bad english too..jejeje , I beg your pardon too.... I think that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the best...
Dear Xavier, thanks for your contribution. I was really hit by your words aiming at explaining DFD's greatness in singing (= "...that he sings without...
To me there's no question that Dieter is both intellectual and mannered in his performance. Such extreme conscientiousness in preparation and presentation is ...
Dear Gaetano, Xavier & List, I agree with Gaetano, Xavier's words really sum up something I have always felt about DFD's singing, and I'm always astonished...
Hi folks, According to the "News" at Monika's website, Fischer-Dieskau has canceled his master class in Copenhagen because of illness. Celia Celia A. Sgroi ...