Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Julia Varady - Schumann, Beethoven & Mahler (2010)

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Julia Varady - Schumann, Beethoven & Mahler (2010)

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As part of this [four-part] edition of previously unreleased radio recordings from across Fischer-Dieskau’s entire career, these interpretations of Beethoven, Mahler and Schumann demonstrate his unrivalled synthesis of intelligence and expression.

Celebrating Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s 85th birthday, audite is issuing a four-part “birthday edition”, adding studio and live concert recordings made between 1951 and 1989 to an already existing nine-CD audite Fischer-Dieskau edition. The releases from the archives of the RIAS and the Sender Freies Berlin document the unequalled quantitative and qualitative spectrum which Fischer-Dieskau acquired during the five decades of his career. They offer a fascinating insight into the breadth of Fischer-Dieskau’s repertoire as well as his artistic approach, with which he maintained a careful balance of development and continuity until the end. These recordings – spanning Beethoven’s sacred songs Op. 48 of 1806, through Schumann, Brahms, Mahler and Reger, to Heinrich Sutermeister’s expressive psalm setting of 1948 – demonstrate the combination of personality and musical character which was essential for Fischer-Dieskau. Not only do they document the artistic partnership with pianists such as the unforgotten Hertha Klust, Daniel Barenboim, Cord Garben, Aribert Reimann and Tamás Vásáry, but also the delightful collaboration with the organist Ulrich Bremsteller. Furthermore, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau can be heard together with his wife and musical partner, Julia Varady.