Fischer-Dieskau; Dietrich

Big Boxes: Klemperer’s Incomparably Grand Sacred Choral Music

David Hurwitz

Otto Klemperer was a pioneer in period instrument performance, after […]

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Under the Radar: Smashing Bruckner Te Deum and Mozart Requiem from Barenboim

David Hurwitz

Barenboim’s Mozart Requiem seldom gets mentioned in the Best Requiem

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Jewels From The Archiv Catalog–55 CDs Worth

Robert Levine

This 55-CD set chronicles the remarkable Archiv label, begun in

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Reference Recording: Klemperer’s Authentic Brahms

David Hurwitz

We have no shortage of excellent modern Brahms cycles, including

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Big Boxes: Richter’s Complete EMI Recordings

Jed Distler

Keeping track of EMI’s countless Sviatoslav Richter reissues and re-couplings

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Visually Clumsy, Thrillingly Performed Don Carlos

Albert Innaurato

This thrilling performance, filmed for television in 1965, repays patience. It is sung in German (not the original French, or most familiar, the clumsy Italian)

Reference Recording: Kubelik’s Soulful Mahler First

David Hurwitz

How do you define if a performance has “soul?” One

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A Classic St. Matthew Returns

Robert Levine

This recording has been a classic for more than 40 years and remains one, all the way through the eras of HIP, anti-HIP, HIP with

Wolf: Mörike Lieder/Fischer-Dieskau/Richter

Jed Distler

My ecstatic review of the 1977 Salzburg recital devoted to Hugo Wolf’s Goethe Lieder featuring Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Sviatoslav Richter (type Q2287 in Search Reviews)

A “Satisfying” 1962 Winterreise

Dan Davis

There’s no shortage of Fischer-Dieskau’s CD versions of Winterreise–no less than seven, plus whatever underground live recordings are floating around in the pirates’ patch. This