... (dpa) Berlin - Der weltberühmte Bariton Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau erholt sich in einem Berliner Krankenhaus von einem schweren Sturz. Es gehe ihm den...
I have finished reading Neunzig's biography of DFD. I was interested in reading about, on page 246, a solitary figure in a forest that appears in some of his ...
Dear Mark: Many thanks for posting messages of utmost substance. Thank you for quoting and paraphrasing from the DFD biography books. For those of us who...
Ronnie, Thanks. I'm glad you appreciated my post. I have read Celia's website , and it is a very frank and honest account of a fan's feelings, and there is...
DFD says he was not a child prodigy. He started piano lessons at the age of 9. I find nothing to indicate to me that DFD ever considered the piano for a ...
Walter, Thanks for the information. Here's my reply. ... his ... Schubertiade performance ... What did they play? I was not aware of ... I checked the Andante...
I found a track listing for the Original Release Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon ... Bach, J S: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne...
Here is a listing of the music on 3-CD/DVD future release: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - An die Musik (Includes bonus material by Brahms, Debussy, Wolf, Schoeck &...
Here is the DG webpage for this: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/multimedia/main.htms?CR=1&ART_ID=FISDI There are 7 video clips of DFD, lasting about 30...
Dear Mark and List, EMI have re-released the Mahler LP collection with Daniel Barenboim from 1980 on CD. There is a posting of it in the NEWS section of Monika...
KBYU-FM will rebroadcast (rewebcast?) this series of programs that were first broadcast for our friend's 75th birthday. They can be heard on Mondays during...
Hello! I am posting a long quote from an article in the magazine Opus, Dec. 1985, page 24, written by Conrad L. Osborne. Early in the article, Osborne writes...
That OPUS discussion on Fischer-Dieskau between Osborne and Will Crutchfield was spread over a few issues and was music criticism of the highest order. There...
Jay, Thanks for the reply. Yes, recently I have read those issues. I went back to look at an article on Gerald Moore in the Opus magazine back in the 1980s,...
Wel, l Crutchfield, Osborne, David Hamilton - all those wonderful critics that coudl wrtite rings around the current crop would be happy to write for you and I...
... Their writing can still be found from time to time. Osborne and Hamilton both contributed to the MET GUIDEs to RECORDED OPERA and OPERA ON VIDEO. The...
Hello everyone, I am a bit behind with topics as I recently moved house & was off line until now, but would like to add my tuppence worth - Der Winterreise by...
Noelle and list, Thanks for your thoughtful reply to my original post. On Winterreise, I agree that the theme is broader than love lost, and that in it there...
This month will be DFD's 80th birthday. Twenty years ago, Will Crutchfield wrote a long article in the Opus magazine in 1985 in honor of DFD's 60th birthday,...
KBYU-FM has opted to make the MP3 files of their series "Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the Art of Song" available for listening ad libitum. So, you won't have...
Dear Mike: Thank you so much for telling us the good news. I asked my friend to download and copy the MP3 files to a CD. I am already excited to go home and...
I hope your downloads are successful, Ronnie. These files should be better than the ones I mentioned previously, which were posted on Usenet, as the latter...
Mike and Ronnie and list, I have visited the website, and read the excellent program notes for the broadcasts. I had heard these programs before, and paid...