The Very Best of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
CD Bins - Classical - Schubert
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, is considered the world’s greatest interpreter of German Lieder and one of the most recorded classical singers in history. The first CD in this two-disc set includes a sampling of his vast Lieder repertoire with compositions by Shubert, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, and Mahler. The second CD contains excerpts of his work in opera with compositions by Bach, Handel, Wagner and Verdi. From his biography (in the Biography Resource Center database, available from the Plymouth Library homepage) we learn Fischer-Dieskau is also a painter, author, conductor, music historian and teacher. And we learn that shortly after enrolling in the Berlin School of Music he was drafted into a World War II German Cavalry Unit where he calmed the horses by singing arias and lieder. He apparently gained experience performing for people while a prisoner of war in an American camp in Italy in 1945, and did not retire from singing until 1992, sharing his vocal artistry with the world for almost 50 years.