Brahms - Vier ernste Gesänge - Fischer-Dieskau / Moore Salzburg 1958

[@viennaroom6338]

What a music, what a interpratation!!! So deep and touching....!

[@elfpix]

Time to stop fighting the Fischer-Dieskau wars. The world would be much different without Dieter's groundbreaking and brilliant work and he sets the standard, whether some people like it or not. He was an extraordinary singer who survived the POW camps of WWII to open the door to a vast repertoire and to a large new generation of singers committed to keeping it in the public eye.

[@ronaldo_ofalia]

Beautiful. Timeless fascination.

[@MagdalenaTheremin]

Absolutely. His music is overwhelming beautiful to me.

[@angelamalek]

This is a phenomenal interpretation of this cycle!

[@stevevandien310]

A magnificent partnership. DFD was here at his best. Not being a pianist, it is hard to express my admiration. I can only say that everything he does is absolutely correct.

[@stevevandien310]

Having praised DFD and Moore' s work here, I must add that these great songs are most effective when sung by darker, deeper voices. Regarding renditions by lyric baritones, I believe John Shirley-Quirk's is the best.

[@MagdalenaTheremin]

Beautiful. Brahms was absolutely a special composer. His music has such a dark emotional vibes. One of his folk songs -Dort in den Weiden steht ein Haus- is so though overwhelming nostalgic and positive that I begun to cry once when I was listening to it. Im curious about what kind of person he was (beyong that he was a genial composer). I feel that he had rather pesimistic ,"negative" nature

[@martineldred6565]

To me: the best interpreter of lieder.

[@viktorhalbnarr999]

Die beste Aufnahme, die ich kenne. Danke für`s Uploaden !

[@tstsullivan]

still no-one has ever done these better.

[@ratselhafterhimmel1407]

+tstsullivan I saw this performed by Heidelberg Orchestra recently, and it was as good as this if not better.

[@tubaguyry3540]

Wrong, Rätselhafter Himmel.

[@viennaroom6338]

You didnt here everyone....Sandra Hrascanec/Naoko Mori....Euphrasius Basilika 2010

[@ezequielstepanenko3229]

well I don't know if better or not, but I prefer Ferrier, Kipnis and Hotter

[@AndreaZese]

eccezionale... eccellente..unico..!!!!!

[@javierborda8684]

live 1958 wow

[@stephanjwilliams]

13:35 Wenn ich mit Menschen

[@galas062]

danke!!

[@esolog5phil394]

genial;darf man nur nicht hoeren wenn die liebste weg oder andere pein

[@joseantoniorodriguez4357]

He llegado aqui gracias al libro de Ramon Gener el amor te hara inmortal, es fascinante.

[@madaboutvoice]

Thanks for sharing. Is that a cigarette in his hand in the photo? !

[@masonjarboe9926]

madaboutvoice yes! He was very much a smoker and some sources say he ventured upwards of three packs a day (a day!) during his brightest performing years. I sneak one every few weeks when I’ve had a few drinks but I can’t imagine performing so prolifically while smoking THAT much!

[@Piflaser]

@@masonjarboe9926 He had not a smoky voice but a smoky breath.

[@Jacky1827able]

Ja danke.

[@융윤-l9p]

4:30 2. Ich wandte mich

[@evaschmid1919]

Trost🙏

[@zriter59escritor33]

DFD's lovely but light baritone was not an ideal instrument for Brahms, and his approach to the first song is overemphatic, perhaps to compensate. Nevertheless, this is one of the 20th century's great singers, probably its greatest lieder singer; and here his vocal technique, always exceptional, was at its best. His sensitivity regarding each song's mood from moment to moment is extraordinary, and with dynamics lower than fff, his singing is all but matchless.

[@raymondgood2359]

how dare you be critical of a great musical genius. what have you ever done in your life that makes you more knowledgeable of brahms than fischer-dieskau??

[@gideongarcia8206]

Calm down

[@franklinhill4341]

B. H. Haggin: (music reviewer for The Nation,The New York Herald Tribune, other papers and the radio, and over a dozen published books on music, from the 1930's to the 1970's) The Brahms' "Vier ernste Gesange",,,,"pretentious and dull" George Bernard Shaw: (from his voluminous writings on music over his lifetime) [The audience is deluded that] "Brahms is a great composer" [because they] "having found by experience that good music bores them, have rashly concluded that all music that bores them must be good." Tchaikovsky: [paraphrased from, Rosa Newmarch, ed.,"The Life and Letters of Tchaikovsky" (London 1906)] "In his music, Brahms aspired to something for which there is no poetic impulse.. He strove for something that must not be striven for. His conscious attempts to achieve Beethoven's profundity and power result in a caricature of Beethoven." W.J. Turner: (London writer of five books on music and musical reviews, and three critical biographies of Mozart, Beethoven and Berlioz). "...Brahms was much too earnest, and to be earnest is always to be ridiculous, since it is given to the elect, the few supremely great ---a Beethoven, for example ---to be not earnest but serious."

[@madaboutvoice]

@Franklin Hill And they were all wrong :)

[@javierborda8684]

Franklin Hill dear lord thank god we never met

[@stephanjwilliams]

17:34

[@RudolfKooijman]

Hm. I like his later interpretations better.

[@MrTonybond67]

Hm really, who cares what you like. Glib comments don't add anything to the world's wisdom

[@RudolfKooijman]

@@MrTonybond67 Es ist noch etwas zu roh, ohne das richtige Gefühl.