Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Mahler Kindertotenlieder 1968 Maazel

[@fadelelizabethfriedlander-5409]

How fabulous…Dietrich forever…

[@flutepilot]

I once heard Fischer-Dieskau in recital at the Kennedy Center - huge hall. He came out, bowed, nestled himself into the curve of the piano and proceeded to take the back out of the hall, while singing personally to each member of the audience. I will never forget this experience.

[@photo161]

...and your comments are so beautifully expressed...

[@photo161]

...and it is so important, so necessary that a person like you who truly appreciates and understands the greatness of a singer as accomplished as Dietetic Fisher Dieskau take the time to make a brief but detailed note of this great artist's work...Such things must matter, for all our sakes...Thank you.

[@geraldvanwilgen]

Lucky.

[@robertmanno5749]

This performance is to be treasured. Thank goodness it has been preserved for all time!

[@berndjanke3176]

Unsurpassed. Fischer-Dieskau was the most important and greatest singer of the 20th century!

[@groewurst6349]

*Luciano Pavarotti wants to know your location*

[@ben.rivillon]

😀😀😀@@groewurst6349

[@manthasagittarius1]

I've never understood why someone always feels the need to declare a "best.". It is never a contest; it's rather a good thing there are enough comparably wonderful performers and performances that the fountain need never run dry.

[@leestamm3187]

Wonderful. Thanks, Mark. Fischer-Dieskau was in a class by himself. Also interesting to see Maazel in his younger days.

[@bashdasfremdeinuns1864]

Unfassbar dieser Fischer-Dieskau! Und dieser Mahler erst recht...

[@AbKoster]

Beautiful recording with my dear colleague Gerhard Schröder playing first horn. We shared from 1977-1990 the first horn chair of the NDR Symphony Orchestra. What a great sound he had😊

[@leestamm3187]

A great great sound indeed. I often enjoy NDR recordings of that era.

[@RG-iw7py]

Vielen Dank! We praise the superb singer but without you and your Friend we wouldn't be able to enjoy it so much.

[@thomaskremer4604]

Amazing to read all this American praising coincidentally found searching Rückert while we're at vacation near the town he was born. So it's not so often to be proud about something german impresses the world. 🌍🙂

[@A.M.816]

It is impossible to imagine a superior interpretation.

[@salvoz44]

Hear Hermann Prey.

[@A.M.816]

@@salvoz44 Nein

[@leestamm3187]

@@salvoz44 Prey is certainly excellent, but if I must choose, I'll take DFD.

[@jamessmith5433]

Yes. Prey is formidable. But he sure as hell ain’t DFD

[@photo161]

What to say after so magnificent a performance? I had heard FD several times in concert, including once doing this same piece around the same time under Leonard Bernstein, but still, I was unprepared for the overwhelming expressive power of this performance. Yes, of course, the subject matter is in itself intensely moving, yet I never before found myself having to hold back tears nearly so often as I did watching Fisher-Diiskau here, seeming not so much to perform the songs as to live them. This is the rare example of a very great artist at the top of his form giving a performance of a great work such as will live to move and inspire as long as there is an audience to care.

[@raymondgood6555]

I felt the same hearing him sing the Brahms requiem. Impossible not to burst into tears- for me at least.

[@AndrewRudin]

The tessitura of these songs fits so perfectly his instrument. Simply superb.

[@brettrobinson2588]

This is so beautiful 💗

[@sebastianmelmoth685]

You don't get closer to perfection than this.

[@jamessmith5433]

Du got dat rite

[@robertmanno5749]

I would have wished for a better principal oboe, however.

[@MarioHernandez-qr4vx]

THE BEST VERSION!!!!

[@elizabethwallace7495]

Magnificent! Thank you so much for posting.

[@AndrewRudin]

I've never understood why this is so often sung by women. It's so clearly about a father's grief. This is superb.

[@daveatlarge5030]

Well put....

[@robertmanno5749]

Whether intended by Mahler to be sung by a man or woman is a debatable point.

[@marks1417]

The lyrics do look like a man singing "When your mama steps in through the door with the glowing candle, it seems to me, as if you always came in with her too, hurrying behind her, as you used to come into the room. Oh you, of a father's cell, ah, too soon extinguished joyful light!

[@Xlappahony]

wokist agenda

[@NighttimeDaydreams]

The lyrics are based on a poem, indeed, expressing a father's grief, but Mahler never specified who was meant to sing it. I find either can be gorgeous, but I do prefer the male voice. There's just something rich and comforting even in the melancholy of the piece.

[@romanbotero3854]

Maravilloso...

[@PowerCouple-Studio]

Wonderful

[@tobiaspeter6555]

His legato is unbelievable

[@luisnorbertogomez7058]

Maravillosos

[@Igor42271]

The best interpretation!

[@mooriable]

Wow, a moving rendition!!! It speaks to me!! By the way, seeing the footage, an interesting sight at about 4:45 - the legendary Gerhart Hetzel is seen at his concertmaster's chair here. Maazel was the chief conductor at the time, and even after Hetzel moved to the Vienna the following year to serve in the same position, they still performed together frequently until the concertmaster died so tragically, since Maazel himself was one of the most frequently invited conductors of the Vienna, too.

[@laupet55]

The focus! wow...

[@ronaldo_ofalia]

I never sensed that intensity from any other lieder singer. Your one word says it all. Long live DFD.

[@Taehan_Kim_1]

Bravissimo

[@claraschumann-uv4gb]

stupendo❤

[@zinam5795]

RARITET!❤❤❤❤❤

[@itamardias17]

Thank you!

[@yamiletsalasacosta6145]

Maravilloso

[@이성호-t3q]

참 좋습니다(very good)!

[@szerminator355]

There is no better performance😢

[@jackharisson5598]

5:00 - 5:28 ingenious composer's phrase

[@mahnighorashi5684]

Remarkable. I would add Kathleen Ferrier/Bruno Walter/VPO 1949 as another reference recording.

[@nabeelhayek402]

0:17 Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n 6:17 Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen 11:04 Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur Tür herein 15:58 Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen 19:10 In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus!

[@davidmargalit6432]

Thank you so much ❤

[@nabeelhayek402]

@@davidmargalit6432 glad to help

[@vitalypsy]

That's Kindertotenlieder

[@slagsleutel]

mooi maar nadat ik deze heb gehoord moet ik naar Solveig liedje van Marita Solberg. Zo mooi met vogeltjes en spelende kinderen op de achtergrond in een mooi zonnetje.

[@mnadelman]

Fischer-Dieskau performed this work with Furtwangler in Berlin in December 1953. Has a recording of this survived?

[@robertmanno5749]

The only Furt/FD/Mahler recordings I'm familiar with are 2 versions of the Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, the audio of both which can be found on KZbin.

[@victormedem3981]

@@robertmanno5749 and which are a miracle in terms of orchestral colors, Furtwängler's Mahler and the Philharmonia is genius in that recording.

[@robertmanno5749]

@@victormedem3981 And the only Mahler ever recorded by Furtwangler.

[@martnandres2800]

Meo corte mi chamcho

[@truthterrain3484]

When special gifts are carefully infused in you by God and then drops you in Germany.

[@RG-iw7py]

Amen. Gruss Gott!

[@thebikeshacklab4989]

Will never Come. But Thomson is god to

[@emmabu2626]

1:46

[@mariapequeno9363]

Es muy evidente que ud. No tiene prejuicios

[@robertwilkscomposer3726]

Love DFD's magnificent performance. Don't love the pieces nor the poems.

[@diegoteruel7069]

I don't like Fischer-Dieskau! In Mahler! He lacks the most elementary sensitivity! Awful germanic singer! I have no prejudices!

[@Michel-eg9eh]

Then just try Hermann Prey under Bernard Haitink (recorded 1970 IIRC).

[@manthasagittarius1]

I too prefer Hermann Prey for these songs. Fischer-Dieskau tended to over interpret on the text level, depending on the accompaniment (more with traditional lieder presented with singer and piano than with orchestra.). I find this performance to be a bit over-acted on the text meaning, when the aching, haunting contour of the musical phrase is asking for something else more muted and subtle. But my idea here is very subjective, because I have performed these songs myself, and every singer has to find his own way to an interpretive solution.

[@leestamm3187]

​​@@manthasagittarius1 Hermann Prey undoubtedly was a marvelous singer, whose recordings I have enjoyed for a great many years. However, in this performance, I find nothing about Fischer-Dieskau to be "over-acted," particularly to those who, as Rückert, have lost children. Fischer-Dieskau experienced more than his share of tragedies in life that I think often were reflected in his performances of emotional pieces such as "Kindertotenlieder." As you note, each singer must find their own interpretation. In a similar way, each listener finds their own unique meaning in a performance.