Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Lied-Edition, Vol. 2 (2020)

Nothing has changed in the outstanding position of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who was born in Berlin in 1925, in the history of song singing, even a quarter of a century after the end of his active singing career. It is above all the song singer Fischer-Dieskau who has set standards that remain valid far beyond his time. Volume 2 of the 'Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Lied-Edition' exemplifies his incomparable art of giving special importance to the poet's word as a source of different musical inspiration. Archive recordings from Stockholm in 1970 summarize songs based on texts by Goethe from five different eras. Similarly, five years later, Fischer-Dieskau dedicated himself to the poet Joseph Eichendorff at the Salzburg Festival with Wolfgang Sawallisch. In 1985 recordings were made with songs based on texts by the lesser known poet Richard Dehmel, proof of Fischer-Dieskau's lifelong interest in expanding the repertoire. Finally, the edition contains a program from 1983 that brings together a wide variety of 19th-century composers under the title 'Songs of Romanticism'.