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Ten's Pick for Today on RTÉ RadioTonight's Lyric Feature explores the life of the English composer Benjamin Britten, and it is followed by a concert featuring the music of Sibelius with the RTÉ SO and the Polytech Choir of Finland. Tonight's Lyric Feature explores the life of the English ...
Posted on 23 May 2013 | 5:41 pm
Gary Griffiths on opera and performing inThis prestigious, international contest will see some of the finest voices, on the brink of global careers, converge upon Cardiff to compete for the title of Cardiff Singer of the World 2013. The Welsh representative will be baritone Gary Griffiths from ...
Posted on 23 May 2013 | 1:08 am
Richard Wagner's 200th birthday: 10The 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth is May 22, and the world's opera houses and symphony halls are filled with his music this year along with the compositions of Giuseppe Verdi, whose 200th birthday is Oct. 10. The final 10 of Wagner's 13 ...
Posted on 21 May 2013 | 4:42 am
10 recommended recordings to listen to forSweet-voiced Jess Thomas’ Lohengrin and Elisabeth Gruemmer’s Elsa match well with the biting darkness of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s Friedrich and Gottlob Frick’ King Heinrich. “Tristan und Isolde” — Wilhelm Furtwaengler, conductor ...
Posted on 21 May 2013 | 4:38 am
10 Recommendations for Wagner's 200th"Tannhaeuser" — Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Boys Choir (recorded Sofiensaal, Vienna, 1970); Decca. There isn't a totally satisfying choice. Solti uses the revised 1861 Paris version of ...
Posted on 21 May 2013 | 12:15 am
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Kinderkuchen for the FBI: DietrichI probably wouldn't have picked this one. Oh well. In my youth he was the most recorded of classical musicians. I enjoyed this selection more than I thought I would, and don't forget I posted him singing "Dover Beach." ...
Posted on 20 May 2013 | 3:31 pm
DownWithTyranny!: Sunday Classics:Walter Berry and Hermann Prey both sang Papageno a fair amount; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recorded the role twice but never sang it onstage -- he explained once that at his six-foot-plus height he thought he would look ...
Posted on 19 May 2013 | 10:00 am
RIP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |UPDATE: Doh! How did I not see that the news report was from 2012? Why did someone post it to his Facebook and so mislead me? Most importantly, why didn't I do a post like this last year when he actually died? The news ...
Posted on 19 May 2013 | 3:23 am
Remembering DietrichOn May 18th of 2012, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the greatest German lyric baritone, musician, writer and conductor of classical music passed away at age 86, just ten days before his 87th Birthday. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was ...
Posted on 16 May 2013 | 9:57 pm
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Jörg Demus, piano. From the Deutsche Grammophon LP, “Ludwig Van Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte – Adelaide – Lieder,” se… Video Rating: 5 / 5 ...
Posted on 6 May 2013 | 3:25 am







