Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Lieder & Songs on Warner Classics
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 2173247545
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 79
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 16th May 2025
Contents
Artists
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)Artists
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)About
One of the 20th century’s most questing and influential singers, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is celebrated above all for his extraordinary skill and insight in lieder. This complete collection of lieder and songs recorded for HMV, EMI Electrola, Teldec & Erato is brought together here for the very first time, showcasing not only his exceptional talent but also the evolution of his artistry and voice throughout his career, from 1951 to 1992. His relentless drive to renew the genre shines through as he explores a vast repertoire, from Schubert to Schoenberg, led by an unbounded curiosity that brought new dimensions to the art of singing.
28 May 2025 marks Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s centenary. This new boxset puts together in 79 CDs all the lieder & songs recordings made by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for HMV, EMI Electrola, Teldec & Erato, from 1951 to 1992.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin on 28 May 1925 to parents who were both academics. He sang as a child but only started vocal lessons at the age of 16. Two years later he was drafted into the army on completion of his secondary school studies and one term at the Berlin Conservatoire. He was taken prisoner whilst in Italy in 1945 and spent two years as an American prisoner of war during which time he sang lieder in their camps. On return to Germany the indisposition of a major soloist gave him a chance to sing in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, which he did even without rehearsal.
Fischer-Dieskau gave his first lieder recital in Leipzig in Autumn 1947, and a successful concert debut at Berlin’s Titania-Palast followed soon afterwards. The next year the opera beckoned with an engagement as principal lyric baritone at Berlin’s State Opera and guest appearances in Vienna and Munich. Concert tours to France, Italy and the Netherlands brought him to the notice of those outside his own language countries. At 26 he sang Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Salzburg Festival, the same year as his debut in Britain singing Delius’s A Mass of Life with Sir Thomas Beecham. That year also marked the beginning of a long association with the piano accompanist, Gerald Moore. In his book Am I too loud? Moore recalls how “he had only to sing one phrase before I knew I was in the presence of a master”.
Although opera continued to form a significant part of his career with regular appearances at the festivals of Bayreuth (1954–1961), Salzburg (1956–early 1970s) and other opera houses, he was also a distinguished performer in choral works; it is good that he committed his Elijah and Paulus in Mendelssohn’s oratorios as well as his deeply-felt Christus in the Bach Passions to disc; but, in the final analysis, it is with lieder (or art songs) that he will always be primarily remembered. He had a indefatigable desire to discover the entire range of the Lied, particularly that which employed great poetry. It was not just a case of performing the greats – Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf and Richard Strauss – but to inspire a new generation of composers to express themselves in setting the written word. One of the modern greats who answered his call was Britten who, besides, writing a major part in his War Requiem, wrote Songs and Proverbs of William Blake with his distinctive voice in mind; others have included Barber, Henze and Lutosławski.
After retiring from singing in 1992 he conducted, wrote and painted, but his genius will be carried forward in his teaching of this generation, and through his recordings, those to come – how to sing with supreme tonal quality employing a remarkable sound palette, exceptional rhythmic sense and impeccable diction.
“...nobody could surely have prophesied that the singer would become such a prodigious phenomenon with a colossal achievement on record, never before matched and unlikely to be repeated in the future.” – Gramophone Magazine
CD 1
Haydn - Lieder & Canzonettas
CD 2
Mozart - Lieder
CD 3
Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte · Lieder
CD 4
Beethoven - 6 Lieder, op.48 · Lieder
CD 5
Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte · Lieder
CD 6
Beethoven - 4 Ariettas and a Duet, op.82 · 6 Lieder, op.48 · Lieder
CD 7
Beethoven - Scottish Songs · Irish Songs · Welsh Songs
CD 8
Loewe - Ballads
CD 9
Loewe - Lieder and Ballads
CD 10
Schubert - Lieder I
CD 11
Schubert - Lieder II
CD 12
Schubert - Lieder III
CD 13
Schubert - Lieder IV
CD 14
Schubert - Lieder V
CD 15
Schubert - Lieder VI
CD 16
Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (mono)
CD 17
Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (stereo)
CD 18
Schubert - Winterreise (mono)
CD 19
Schubert - Winterreise (stereo)
CD 20
Schubert - Schwanengesang
CD 21
Schubert - Lieder
CD 22
Mendelssohn - Lieder
CD 24
Schumann - Liederkreise, opp. 24 & 39 · Lieder
CD 25
Schumann - Liederkreis, op.39 · Lieder
CD 26
Schumann - Liederkreis, op.24 · Dichterliebe · Lieder
CD 27
Cornelius - Trauer und Trost · Weihnachtslieder · Lieder
CD 28
Brahms - Lieder
CD 29
Brahms - Lieder
CD 30
Brahms - Lieder I
CD 31
Brahms - Lieder II
CD 32
Brahms - Lieder III
CD 33
Brahms - Lieder IV
CD 34
Brahms - Die schöne Magelone
CD 35
Brahms - Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO33 (part I)
CD 36
Brahms - Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO33 (part II)
CD 37
Grieg - Lieder
CD 38
Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Brahms - Lieder und Gesänge
CD 39
Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Lothar - Musik des Einsamen
Fauré - La Bonne Chanson
CD 40
Mahler - Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit · Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
CD 41
Mahler - Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn · Rückert-Lieder
CD 42
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
CD 43
Mahler - Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn
CD 44
Wolf - Goethe Lieder · Mörike Lieder
CD 45
Wolf - Geistliche Lieder · Weltliche Lieder
CD 46
Wolf - Eichendorff-Lieder
CD 47
Wolf - Lieder
CD 48
Wolf - Mörike Lieder I
CD 49
Wolf - Mörike Lieder II
CD 50
Wolf - Goethe Lieder I
CD 51
Wolf - Goethe Lieder II
CD 52
Wolf - Italienisches Liederbuch
CD 53
R Strauss - Lieder
CD 54
R Strauss - Lieder I
CD 55
R Strauss - Lieder II
CD 56
R Strauss - Lieder III
CD 57
R Strauss - Lieder IV
CD 58
R Strauss - Lieder V
CD 59
Pfitzner - Eichendorff Lieder
CD 60
Pfitzner - Lieder for baritone and orchestra
CD 61
Schoenberg - Lieder
CD 62
Berg - Jugendlieder
CD 63
Schoeck - Notturno
Matthus - Nachtlieder
CD 64
Eisler - Hollywood Song-book
CD 65
Shostakovich - Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Reimann - Tre poemi di Michelangelo Buonarroti
CD 66
Duets with Victoria de los Ángeles
CD 67
Lieder by Contemporary Composers
CD 68
Live in Salzburg I
CD 69
Live in Salzburg II
CD 70
Live in Salzburg III
CD 71
Homage to Gerald Moore I
CD 72
Homage to Gerald Moore II
CD 73
Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
CD 74
Lieder der Schumannianer
CD 75
Lieder der Neudeutschen
CD 76
Lieder der Jahrhundertwende
CD 77
Aufbruch des 20.Jahrhunderts im Lied
CD 78
Wirkung der Neuen Wiener Schule im Lied
CD 79
Mélodies de la Belle Époque
Recordings from 1951–1992
28 May 2025 marks Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s centenary. This new boxset puts together in 79 CDs all the lieder & songs recordings made by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for HMV, EMI Electrola, Teldec & Erato, from 1951 to 1992.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin on 28 May 1925 to parents who were both academics. He sang as a child but only started vocal lessons at the age of 16. Two years later he was drafted into the army on completion of his secondary school studies and one term at the Berlin Conservatoire. He was taken prisoner whilst in Italy in 1945 and spent two years as an American prisoner of war during which time he sang lieder in their camps. On return to Germany the indisposition of a major soloist gave him a chance to sing in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, which he did even without rehearsal.
Fischer-Dieskau gave his first lieder recital in Leipzig in Autumn 1947, and a successful concert debut at Berlin’s Titania-Palast followed soon afterwards. The next year the opera beckoned with an engagement as principal lyric baritone at Berlin’s State Opera and guest appearances in Vienna and Munich. Concert tours to France, Italy and the Netherlands brought him to the notice of those outside his own language countries. At 26 he sang Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Salzburg Festival, the same year as his debut in Britain singing Delius’s A Mass of Life with Sir Thomas Beecham. That year also marked the beginning of a long association with the piano accompanist, Gerald Moore. In his book Am I too loud? Moore recalls how “he had only to sing one phrase before I knew I was in the presence of a master”.
Although opera continued to form a significant part of his career with regular appearances at the festivals of Bayreuth (1954–1961), Salzburg (1956–early 1970s) and other opera houses, he was also a distinguished performer in choral works; it is good that he committed his Elijah and Paulus in Mendelssohn’s oratorios as well as his deeply-felt Christus in the Bach Passions to disc; but, in the final analysis, it is with lieder (or art songs) that he will always be primarily remembered. He had a indefatigable desire to discover the entire range of the Lied, particularly that which employed great poetry. It was not just a case of performing the greats – Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf and Richard Strauss – but to inspire a new generation of composers to express themselves in setting the written word. One of the modern greats who answered his call was Britten who, besides, writing a major part in his War Requiem, wrote Songs and Proverbs of William Blake with his distinctive voice in mind; others have included Barber, Henze and Lutosławski.
After retiring from singing in 1992 he conducted, wrote and painted, but his genius will be carried forward in his teaching of this generation, and through his recordings, those to come – how to sing with supreme tonal quality employing a remarkable sound palette, exceptional rhythmic sense and impeccable diction.
“...nobody could surely have prophesied that the singer would become such a prodigious phenomenon with a colossal achievement on record, never before matched and unlikely to be repeated in the future.” – Gramophone Magazine
Contents:
Haydn - Lieder & Canzonettas
CD 2
Mozart - Lieder
CD 3
Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte · Lieder
CD 4
Beethoven - 6 Lieder, op.48 · Lieder
CD 5
Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte · Lieder
CD 6
Beethoven - 4 Ariettas and a Duet, op.82 · 6 Lieder, op.48 · Lieder
CD 7
Beethoven - Scottish Songs · Irish Songs · Welsh Songs
CD 8
Loewe - Ballads
CD 9
Loewe - Lieder and Ballads
CD 10
Schubert - Lieder I
CD 11
Schubert - Lieder II
CD 12
Schubert - Lieder III
CD 13
Schubert - Lieder IV
CD 14
Schubert - Lieder V
CD 15
Schubert - Lieder VI
CD 16
Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (mono)
CD 17
Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (stereo)
CD 18
Schubert - Winterreise (mono)
CD 19
Schubert - Winterreise (stereo)
CD 20
Schubert - Schwanengesang
CD 21
Schubert - Lieder
CD 22
Mendelssohn - Lieder
CD 23
Mendelssohn - Lieder
CD 24
Schumann - Liederkreise, opp. 24 & 39 · Lieder
CD 25
Schumann - Liederkreis, op.39 · Lieder
CD 26
Schumann - Liederkreis, op.24 · Dichterliebe · Lieder
CD 27
Cornelius - Trauer und Trost · Weihnachtslieder · Lieder
CD 28
Brahms - Lieder
CD 29
Brahms - Lieder
CD 30
Brahms - Lieder I
CD 31
Brahms - Lieder II
CD 32
Brahms - Lieder III
CD 33
Brahms - Lieder IV
CD 34
Brahms - Die schöne Magelone
CD 35
Brahms - Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO33 (part I)
CD 36
Brahms - Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO33 (part II)
CD 37
Grieg - Lieder
CD 38
Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Brahms - Lieder und Gesänge
CD 39
Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Lothar - Musik des Einsamen
Fauré - La Bonne Chanson
CD 40
Mahler - Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit · Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
CD 41
Mahler - Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn · Rückert-Lieder
CD 42
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
CD 43
Mahler - Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn
CD 44
Wolf - Goethe Lieder · Mörike Lieder
CD 45
Wolf - Geistliche Lieder · Weltliche Lieder
CD 46
Wolf - Eichendorff-Lieder
CD 47
Wolf - Lieder
CD 48
Wolf - Mörike Lieder I
CD 49
Wolf - Mörike Lieder II
CD 50
Wolf - Goethe Lieder I
CD 51
Wolf - Goethe Lieder II
CD 52
Wolf - Italienisches Liederbuch
CD 53
R Strauss - Lieder
CD 54
R Strauss - Lieder I
CD 55
R Strauss - Lieder II
CD 56
R Strauss - Lieder III
CD 57
R Strauss - Lieder IV
CD 58
R Strauss - Lieder V
CD 59
Pfitzner - Eichendorff Lieder
CD 60
Pfitzner - Lieder for baritone and orchestra
CD 61
Schoenberg - Lieder
CD 62
Berg - Jugendlieder
CD 63
Schoeck - Notturno
Matthus - Nachtlieder
CD 64
Eisler - Hollywood Song-book
CD 65
Shostakovich - Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Reimann - Tre poemi di Michelangelo Buonarroti
CD 66
Duets with Victoria de los Ángeles
CD 67
Lieder by Contemporary Composers
CD 68
Live in Salzburg I
CD 69
Live in Salzburg II
CD 70
Live in Salzburg III
CD 71
Homage to Gerald Moore I
CD 72
Homage to Gerald Moore II
CD 73
Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
CD 74
Lieder der Schumannianer
CD 75
Lieder der Neudeutschen
CD 76
Lieder der Jahrhundertwende
CD 77
Aufbruch des 20.Jahrhunderts im Lied
CD 78
Wirkung der Neuen Wiener Schule im Lied
CD 79
Mélodies de la Belle Époque
Recordings from 1951–1992
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