Schubert songs by Fischer-Dieskau/Moore

[rubio]

Does anyone know if their 1963 recordings of Schwanengesang and Die Schone Mollerin exist on CD? I would be very thankful for any help.

[George]

Is it one of these?

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=10889&name_role1=1&name_id2=13795&name_role2=2&genre=155&bcorder=219&comp_id=11099

[Michel]

Are you sure in mean 63? Do you mean 1961 in the latters case  If so, it is available on EMI on its own.  The ones in the 21 disc DG set, which is the second link on the page that George highlighted, are from 71 and 72 and are very good. I wasn't aware there was some recordings in 63 that they did, other than Wintereisse.

[rubio]

Yeh, it seems that this Winterreise is the only one from 1963 (in this cycle), the Schwanengesang from 1962 and the Die Schone Mullerin from 1961. But they were included together in an EMI LP from 1963, and that confused me a bit. Now, I have located them all  .

[Michel]

Good! Its great music.

Try the Hotter/Moore Wintereisse from the fifties, now that is great!!

[knight66]

Or the Fassbaender/Reimann version. You need a strong stomach, it moves the work from romanticism into expressionism.

Mike

[Don Giovanni]

I'm currently comparing some different recordings of Die Schone Mullerin and this one has caught my eye:



Before I buy it, I just wanted to compare at least one song. I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to send me a mp3 of the song "Des Mullers Blumen" from the recording in question. If so, contact me in a PM.

Thanks in advance.

[Don Giovanni]

Anyone? 

[uffeviking]

Not I! To my taste, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is in the past, he had his many years of glory, time for giving new talent a chance to be listened to.

Try the EMI with Simon Keenlyside, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, twenty selections, some very familiar, some not. His Heidenröslein is the most beautiful rendition of this Goethe poem I ever heard. 

[knight66]

I don't altogether agree with Lis here. If performances are great, I don't like disgarding them because there are new kids on the block. I like Keenlyside a lot, but would go for DFD in any of his classic collections. He has such a history of association with the music, it is very much in his performing blood.

Why not try both, as neither disc is expensive.

Mike

[zamyrabyrd]

The incredible performance of Schubert's Erlkönig sung by Fischer-Dieskau and accompanied by Gerald Moore seems to have been posted fairly recently on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5B6nysheec

I had his CD but watching F-D's expressions raises the experience to a different level. There are a couple other uploads from this session on youtube as well. A curiosity, quite interesting is Kipnis with Gerald Moore in 1939: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAMKycp5v7c

ZB