Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute

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SOMM Recordings
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May 16, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anna Amalia, Ferruccio Busoni, Zoltan Kodaly, Gustav Mahler, Max Reger, Johann Friedrich Reichardt
    • PERFORMER
      Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore, Irwin Gage, Karl Engel, London Symphony Orchestra, Jon Tolan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 16, 2025
    • UPC
      758871503822
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARIADNE 5038-2
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Lied des Unmuts

      Composer: Ferruccio Busoni

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

    2. Zigeunerlied, Op. 55, No. 2 (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Ferruccio Busoni

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

    3. Schlechter Trost

      Composer: Ferruccio Busoni

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

    4. Lied des Mephistopheles

      Composer: Ferruccio Busoni

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

    5. Auf dem Land und in der Stadt

      Composer: Anna Amalia

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irwin Gage

    6. Beherzigung

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Reichardt

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irwin Gage

    7. Gleich und gleich

      Composer: Carl Friedrich Zelter

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irwin Gage

    8. 6 Lieder, Op. 56, TrV 220: No. 1. Gefunden (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irwin Gage

    9. 18 Gesänge, Op. 75: No. 18. Einsamkeit

      Composer: Max Reger

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irwin Gage

    10. Zigeunerlied, Op. 55, No. 2 (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Ferruccio Busoni

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irwin Gage

    11. Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, Book 3: No. 2. Ablösung im Sommer

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel

    12. Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, Book 2: No. 1. Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel

    13. Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, Book 3: No. 5. Selbstgefuhl

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel

    14. No. 1. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel

    15. No. 3. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel

    16. No. 5. Um Mitternacht

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Engel

    17. No. 1. A kozelito tel (The approaching winter)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

      Conductor: Zoltán Kodály

    18. No. 2. Sirni, sirni, sirni (To cry, to cry, to cry)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

      Conductor: Zoltán Kodály

    19. Kádár Kata (Mother, Listen)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

      Conductor: Zoltán Kodály

    20. Earliest Musical Memories

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    21. Singing Winterreise as a teenager - Comments on Winterreise (1)

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    22. Opera debut as Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    23. Singing Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Wilhelm Furtwängler - Memories of Furtwängler

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    24. Comments on singing lieder and opera

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    25. Singing the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    26. Singing the title role in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    27. Stage direction in opera

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    28. Singing Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    29. Singing title role in Verdi's Macbeth

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    30. Singing Iago in Verdi's Otello

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    31. Singing Mandryka in Strauss's Arabella

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    32. Championing new contemporary music

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    33. Singing the title role in Berg's Wozzeck

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    34. Singing the title role in Reimann's Lear

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    35. Singing the title role in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    36. Conducting career - Recollections of renowned conductors

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    37. Singing with Britten

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    38. Teaching singing to pupils

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    39. Piano Accompanists

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    40. Painting (1)

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    41. Early days becoming a singer

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    42. Singing Winterreise as a teenager - Comments on Winterreise (2)

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    43. Grieg songs

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    44. Wolf lieder

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    45. Young people coming to study with him

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    46. Busoni's Doktor Faust

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    47. Wotan and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    48. Singing the role of Wotan with Herbert von Karajan

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    49. Singing the title role in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    50. Singing Golaud in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    51. Singing Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    52. Revelge in Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    53. Painting (2)

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Jon Tolansky, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


SOMM Recordings is proud to mark the centenary of the legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925-18 May 2012) by adding to his canonical discography with live recital and concert recordings from the Music Preserved archive. Fischer-Dieskau was at the very height of his powers from 1960-75, and the performances on this album date from that period. A bonus CD contains two interviews conducted by Jon Tolansky-appearing here in their entirety for the first time-the 75th Birthday Interview (2000) and 80th Birthday Interview (2005). The extraordinarily vast repertoire of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau over his 45-year career comprised�lieder, operas,�cantatas,�and�oratorios.�He sang these in German, Italian, French, Russian, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Latin, from eras that spanned the Baroque to the latter part of the 20th century. Particularly, it was the controlled power and beauty of his voice, and the dramatic intensity and poetry of his interpretations, that led him to excel in the genre of German�lieder.�In this form he exerted a virtually unprecedented stylistic and interpretative influence-not only on the musical world of his day, but also on generations of performers to come. SOMM's centenary tribute opens with four songs by Ferruccio Busoni, all being works that were written late in the composer's career. They come from a programme that Fischer-Dieskau gave with Gerald Moore in 1962.� At the 1971 Helsinki Festival, Fischer-Dieskau presented a recital with Irwin Gage, which was devoted entirely to songs with texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The recital, described by a contemporary critic as "a landmark event," featured compositions by contemporaries of Goethe, who lived from 1749 to 1832, such as the Countess Anna Amalia, Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter. The more familiar composers represented on this Goethe-inspired recital were active during the first part of the 20th century. They include Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and Ferruccio Busoni. This tribute to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also includes six songs from a programme of works by Gustav Mahler, which was presented with his long-time collaborator, Karl Engel. Three of the songs are from Des Knaben Wunderhorn,�based on texts of German folk poems, and three are from the collection of five Ruckert-Lieder,�after poems written by�Friedrich Ruckert. The musical component of this collection closes with a concert performance of three songs by Zoltan Kodaly, sung in Hungarian by Fischer-Dieskau. The composer proves himself an outstanding interpreter of his own music in conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In the two interviews included on the bonus CD, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau discusses his early years, his teachers, the development of his career, and a small but revealing cross-section of his enormous repertoire.