Search - Schubert, Fischer-Dieskau Dietrich, Emi Masters :: Die Schone Mullerin

'This disc offers a model for all lieder singers. The words are not only beautifully sung ; they are also savoured as poetry and enacted as experience, and the delight of that dual discovery is well and truly conveyed. The piano part is rendered equally well and recreated just as truly, and it has an added aura of mature wisdom' Gramophone magazine Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was one of the most famous lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period. At his peak, he was greatly admired for his interpretive insights and the note-perfect control of the tonal qualities and shadings of his voice. He was notable, too, for his exceptional rhythmic sense and incisive diction (sometimes, critics[who?] asserted, at the expense of an ideally smooth legato vocal line). Fischer-Dieskau has also performed and recorded many operatic roles. From early in his career he collaborated with famous lyric sopranos Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, and the recording producer Walter Legge, issuing instantly-successful albums of lieder by Schubert and Hugo Wolf. In 1951, Fischer-Dieskau made his first of many recordings of lieder with Gerald Moore and EMI in London. They would perform in recitals until Moore retired from public performance in 1967. They continued, however, to record together until 1972, in which year they completed their massive project of recording all of the Schubert lieder appropriate for the male voice. Gerald Moore retired completely in 1972, and died in 1987, aged 87. Their recordings of Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are highly prized examples of an artistic partnership.