Mendelssohn & Loewe: Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano - Mendelssohn) & Gerald Moore (piano - Loewe)
Mendelssohn & Loewe: Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano - Mendelssohn) & Gerald Moore (piano - Loewe)
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As Richard Wigmore notes in his characteristically scholarly and elegant booklet essay, ‘Fischer-Dieskau’s narrative flair, mastery of word-painting and gift for fixing a scene in the mind’s ear made him a natural for the ballads of Carl Loewe, a composer once well described as a 19th-century incarnation of a medieval strolling minstrel’.
Digitally remastered in 2007
The great German baritone made these recordings – with Wolfgang Sawallisch at the piano in the Mendelssohn, Gerald Moore in the Loewe – in Berlin in 1970 and 1967 respectively. This is the first time the LP of Loewe’s Ballads has appeared in its entirety on CD.