The Archive - Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig

The Archive - Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig

This episode of ‘The Archive’ allows us to discover two great singers. First, we join Christa Ludwig, the German mezzo-soprano, in lieder performances from Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, Strauss and Schubert. The sultry voice and the technique of the artist are accompanied by Gerald Moore on the piano during the recording of the program “Celebrity Recital” in London, in 1962. Then we join Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the baritone renowned as “the greatest singer of lieder worldwide”. Here, he illustrates this quality by performing several of Schubert’s lieder accompanied by Gerald Moore on the piano. Finally, the program ends on a performance of a lied by Gustav Mahler by Fischer-Dieskau and the great Paul Kletzki conducting the Japanese Radio Symphonic Orchestra.