FISCHER-DIESKAU • SCHUBERT Die Winterreise [1952] (CD, Audite) REUTTER piano

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This studio recording of Schubert's Winterreise from the year 1952 is the second of ten recordings of this cycle made by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau between 1948 and 1990. FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828) Die Winterreise Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau baritone Hermann Reuter piano Radio Broadcast Cologne, 1952 Few singers had such an intense relationship with a piece of music, both in the concert-hall and on record, as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had with Schubert’s song-cycle Die Winterreise. Commercially, Fischer-Dieskau recorded Die Winterreise seven times: In 1955, with Gerald Moore for HMV. In 1963, again with Gerald Moore for HMV. In 1966, with Jörg Demus for DG. In 1972, with Gerald Moore , again but for DG. In 1980, with Daniel Barenboim , and again for DG. In 1986, with Alfred Brendel for Philips. In 1990, with Murray Perahia for Sony Classical Additionally, there are earlier live recordings, not originally intended for release: these include: 1948, with Klaus Billing 1952, with Hermann Reutter 1953, with Hertha Klust