Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Goethe settings
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About
This recording is part of a recital given at the Helsinki Festival devoted entirely to songs with words by Goethe.
The first songs in this group are by composers who were contemporaries of Goethe.
Countess Anna Amalia was the sister of King Frederick of Prussia. As Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach she was instrumental in making Weimar a great cultural centre. She was herself a notable composer, often setting music to the words of that other Weimar resident, Goethe.
Johann Freidrich Reichardt was for a time director of music at the court of Frederick the Great.
Carl Friedrich Zelter was director of the Vocal Academy in Berlin in Goethe’s time and he was a friend of the poet, who favoured his settings of his works.
The rest of the group consists of composers from the first part of the twentieth century, namely Richard Strauss, Max Reger and Ferruccio Busoni.
Content
Anna Amalia
Auf dem Land
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Feigergedanken
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Gleich und Gleich
Richard Strauss
Gefunden
Max Reger
Einsamkeit
Ferruccio Busoni
Zigeunerlied
This recording
This recording is from the collection of Patrick Saul.
The recording was broadcast in 1972.
Performers
- Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Piano Irwin Gage
