Search - Schubert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore :: Schubert: Schwanengesang; 7 Lieder

From Alan Blyth's review in Gramophone

Record Collector | Mons, Belgium | 12/19/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

""The singer's partnership with Gerald Moore in Schubert is well represented by their second, 1972 recording of Schwanengesang (their first dates from 10 years earlier). It was one of the most rewarding fruits of their long collaboration and crowned their joint labours on the composer's oeuvre. Here, in the mostly cheerful Rellstab settings, as in the predominantly searing Heine ones, the singer is at the height of his powers, bringing to these late songs the benefit of his vast range of tone and expression. Only Hotter a few years earlier and Schreier, singing in the original keys, encompass the Heine songs with this degree of intensity and understanding. The extra, mostly popular songs ('An die Musik,' 'Heidenroeslein,' 'Im Abendrot,' Der Musensohn,' and 'Der Tod und das Maedchen' among them) only confirm the impression left by the quasi-cycle: who could resist this pair in 'Die Forelle' and 'An Silvia'? Pity those today trying even to match, let alone surpass, such an achievement."



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