Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4372352
Release: 1992
Size: 728 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795
01. I. Das Wandern
02. II. Wohin?
03. III. Halt!
04. IV. Danksagung an den Bach
05. V. Am Feierabend
06. VI. Der Neugierige
07. VII. Ungeduld
08. VIII. Morgengruß
09. IX. Der Müllers Blumen
10. X. Tränenregen
11. XI. Mein!
12. XII. Pause
13. XIII. Mit dem grünen Lautenbande
14. XIV. Der Jäger
15. XV. Eifersucht und Stolz
16. XVI. Die liebe Farbe
17. XVII. Die böse Farbe
18. XVIII. Trockne Blumen
19. XIX. Der Müller und der Bach
20. XX. Des Baches Wiegenlied
CD 02
Winterreise, D. 911
01. No. 1, Gute Nacht
02. No. 2, Die Wetterfahne
03. No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen
04. No. 4, Erstarrung
05. No. 5, Der Lindenbaum
06. No. 6, Wasserflut
07. No. 7, Auf dem Flusse
08. No. 8, Rückblick
09. No. 9, Irrlicht
10. No. 10, Rast
11. No. 11, Frühlingstraum
12. No. 12, Einsamkeit
13. No. 13, Die Post
14. No. 14, Der greise Kopf
15. No. 15, Die Krähe
16. No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung
17. No. 17, Im Dorfe
18. No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen
19. No. 19, Täuschung
20. No. 20, Der Wegweiser
21. No. 21, Das Wirtshaus
22. No. 22, Mut
23. No. 23, Die Nebensonnen
24. No. 24, Der Leiermann
CD 03
Schwanengesang, D. 957
01. Liebesbotschaft
02. Kriegers Ahnung
03. Frühlingssehnsucht
04. Ständchen “Leise flehen meine Lieder”
05. Aufenthalt
06. In der Ferne
07. Abschied
08. Der Atlas
09. Ihr Bild
10. Das Fischermädchen
11. Die Stadt
12. Am Meer
13. Der Doppelgänger
14. Die Taubenpost
The first set was as good as it gets, the second set was even better, and the third set is best of all. Of course, this is impossible. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s three sets of the nearly complete songs of Schubert don’t really get any better from volume to volume. His voice — his marvelous voice, the voice of German Lieder in our time — was sublime in the earliest songs of the first volume and just as sublime in the later songs of the second volume. His interpretations — the most sensitive, soulful, intelligent, and sublime — were sublime in the early songs and the late songs. And pianist Gerald Moore was still the accompanist without peer in every song. But the third set is still the best of all because this is the set with the three great cycles — Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang — and no matter how great the individual songs are, the cycles go further into the heart and soul of man. And Fischer-Dieskau goes further, too: his Die schöne Müllerin is love, youth, spring, and death; his Winterreise is love, despair, and madness without end; and his Schwanengesang is almost unbearable in its endless intensity and infinite concentration. One of the greatest sets of recordings ever made, this is fit to stand with Beecham’s La bohème, Davis’ Kind of Blue, and Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde. Everyone should hear these discs.