Hi folks, Many thanks to Maggy Trauch for enriching our "smoking" file with four more photos, and who posted the birthday card for DFD? It's great! Celia Celia...
Recently we were citing particularly superb DFD performances, and I would add his recordings of the Strauss setting of Dehmel's "Befreit" (Op. 39,4, "Du wirst...
In a message dated 6/3/2004 8:35:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, cdwright@... writes: Recently we were citing particularly superb DFD performances, and I...
Hello Charlie, I agree with you over this lied, although many people say that Strauss was not a great lied composer. Maybe it's DFD who makes it sound great ;...
Dear friends, I am the maker of the card "the birthday card for DFD", named He Shiying, a chinese girl who adores FD very much. i never join in the seminardue...
Dear He Shiying, Thank you so much for the DFD birthday card. It really is wonderful. Maybe you don't feel comfortable to participate in the discussions, but...
Dear Charlie, gerne versuche ich Ihre Frage zu beantworten. Definitiv ist die richtige Übersetzung meiner Meinung nach "O Happiness!". Zwar steht dies...
Dear Charlie, Rudolf & List, Herewith, a translation of Rudolf's comments about the text of Strauss's song "Befreit." Celia ... I'm happy to try to answer your...
Dear Celia, it must be either from a 1952 (06.09.52) or from a 1954 (24.09.54) Berlin production at the Städtische Oper, both under Arthur Rother. Ciao ...
Dear Monika, Gaetano, and List,
I am really wondering about the photo, because it appears in the
edition of the Friedrich Herzfeld book about DFD that I have...
Hi folks, The great tennis player Andre Agassi, no matter what else he says or does in his career, will never live down his youthful statement that "image is...
Hi Rudolf, Thanks for the clarification (and thanks, Celia, for the rapid translation!). If "Glück" can't mean "fate" (which I doubted), I wonder if there is...
Dear Monika and Celia, I have to admit that the photo clearly shows a not very young DFD, even if Jochanaan's beard and "maquillage" could easily deceive us...
... <sgroi@o...> wrote: I can also recall DFD saying that he had ... could ... Celia, To my ears, there is quite a difference between the early DFD voice ...
Dear Mark and List, I don't know how it came about, but I am certain that DFD's eventual "unbalanced" voice was a deliberate choice. His early voice sounds to ...
... to ... it ... can ... Celia, Could you elaborate on what you mean by "unbalanced"? I haven't heard the 1952 recording, and would be interested it hearing...
Dear Mark & List, ... I can't take credit for the term "unbalanced"; I've read it a million times. I understand it to mean a voice that basically divides into...
Dear Celia and List, As to issue #1, what do you think would have happened if DFD had been called an emotional or passionate singer? I personally think he'd ...
... been ... I recently read an early review of DFD in Newsweek or Time, back to the mid-1950's, and it described him even then as an unemotional singer,...
Dear Claude & List, ... Based on what I have read, I don't think DFD has a problem with being described as an "intelligent" singer. However, he balks at the...
... Poor C.L.O. :) He wrote that in one review of a Winterreise that happened to hit him wrong in the early 1960s, and the words live on 4 decades later,...
Dear Celia and List, I agree with you! One thing is to be called intellectual and another is to be called a 'Lieder machine'. I definitely think he is an ...
Hi folks, One of the persistent myths about Fischer-Dieskau is that he proposed to his present wife, Julia Varady, by means of a note that he allegedly slipped...
... there ... I like what Gerald Moore had to say about DFD in his book. I don't have it now before me, but I recall what wholehearted admiration and personal...
Dear Celia, You've met DFD several times, I think, in lifts / elevators. What do you think about this myth in particular? Regards, Claude ... proposed ... ...
Dear Claude & List, ... I have seen DFD on many occasions, but I have only actually met him once, and that was last year when Monika introduced us. I have...
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