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Article: Fischer-Dieskau: Worthy of Note(s)
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 16, 1995
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The French division of the massive EMI corporation has released a
compendium called Les Introuvables de Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (EMI
68509, six CDs), and it contains so much outstanding material that
one feels churlish complaining about what it lacks. But here we go.
These six discs contain more than 125 lieder, ballads, cantatas and
songs -- primarily in German, but also in French, Italian, Latin and
English -- recorded mostly in the 1950s and '60s when Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau's voice was one of the wonders of the musical
universe.
What this collection lacks is texts. They were compiled when these
performances were first issued, and the material could have been
reprinted with relatively ...