In a message dated 9/30/2008 10:56:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sgroi@... writes: DFD's 1948 RIAS broadcast of "Winterreise" with Klaus Billing as ...
Hi everybody, Der Standard reports that the Hugo-Wolf-Akademie has awarded the first Hugo-Wolf-Medaille to DFD: http://derstandard.at/?id=1220460069731 Bye, ...
Hi all, I dare say some of you have already seen this, but there is a nice clip on Youtube of DFD working with tenor Christian Elsner on Schubert's "Auf der...
I just viewed DFD's master class via you tube. Thanks Celia for telling us about it. It was wonderful. I would be curious to know what some of you think about...
Dear Howard & List, Your question is an interesting one to me, but there are actually two aspects to it. First, how do you define "up and coming male lieder ...
Dear Celia and list; Thank you so much for your very thoughtful answer to my question. I agree with much of what you say. I recall how in past times when I ...
This is a great video. I caught it a while ago and saved it to my favorites. I also like that you put the recent photo from FiDi's masterclass on the ...
I joined this group a year or so ago and have enjoyed the postings! I first learned of DFD in the 60's. Gerard Souzay, which was a stage name, passed away...
Hi List, I think the problem is that if you got hooked on German song by listening to DFD there really isn't a satisfactory substitute, especially on...
... Few are the songs that I want to hear by more than one performer, and every excursion into other singers has been a disappointment. Quasthoff? Goerne?...
... Ian Bostridge is the only singer that I have ever heard that could make a love song sound like a grocery list - intellectual maybe - boring - definitely!! ...
Hi Celia and List, ... Among the things I bought the last couple of months... - Goerne: Sehnsucht... the first in his 11-something Schubert CD collection is...
dear list: the next fischer-dieskau??? is he still fathering children? if not then this is a matter of idle speculation to be wondering which singer will be...
... exchanging information with friends and acquaintances about whom in my or their opinion is good and not so good. Did I miss something? I thought that was...
Dear Margo & List, I liked Bernarda Fink singing Schumann lieder, both live and recorded. I think she would be good singing Brahms. I'll have to look into...
Dear Celia and List, I have read the opinions of everyone's favorite Lieder singers of our time with great interest. One very fine singer who was overlooked, I...
Dear Walter & List, Yes, I did forget about Pregardien and Holzmair, whom I have heard and don't much like, although I do have a copy of the Pregardien/Staier...
Hi all, Just to get this discussion back in the direction of DFD, I was thinking of the fact that to me Christoph Pregardien has always sounded liked a "pushed...
Dear Jim, Yes, that's true. As we were talking about DFD's "successors," we didn't discuss his more or less contemporaries, from Hans Hotter and Elisabeth...
Hi folks, With thanks to Rudolf Peters for the information, you can find a series of portraits of Fischer-Dieskau (also of his first wife, Irmgard Poppen and...
I looked at this website last night. It takes a bit of persistance and clicking to actually see the photos. When you search "fischer-dieskau" what comes up is...
Hi- I had trouble getting the photos, thaough I did get his late wife's photol I'll revisit the website and try again. Talking of images, many years ago I was...
Dear Howard & List, What you have is most likely an exhibition catalog. They are not exactly common, but not rare either. If you look on Monika's DFD page, you...
I have one of these catalogs too. I didn't know there were so many though. Mine is from Berlin 1985 and is called "Builder aus drei Jarnzehnten". I also have...
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