Wolf / Fischer-Dieskau - Orchestral Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hardly any other singer was more associated with and devoted to the nigh 300 songs by the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf than Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Utterly convinced by the richness of Wolf's oeuvre, Fischer-Dieskau took Wolf's previously hardly heeded songs to many stages throughout the world. Reger was frowned upon as an 'awkward traditionalist' and 'piece worker', but Reger's songs show a completely different, moving and profound side of the composer, who takes a significant position in the song composition of the turn of the century. Even Fischer-Dieskau did not devote himself to Reger exactly frequently, unlike his downright encyclopaedic approach in other fields. In his recording of a number of particularly fine gems among Reger's orchestral songs, he was supported by Gerd Albrecht. The outcome is an artistic symbiosis of the highest quality, testifying to a passion and ardency that can be found seldom a veritable sound document! Album Tracks 1. Prometheus 2. Anakreons Grab 3. Harfenspieler I (Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt) 4. Harfenspieler II (An die Türen will ich schleichen) 5. Harfenspieler III (Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß) 6. Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen (Nr. 17 aus / from Italienisches Liederbuch) 7. Sterb' ich, so hüllt in Blumen meine Glieder (Nr. 33 aus / from Italienisches Liederbuch) 8. Denk' es, o Seele 9. Gebet 10. Fußreise 11. Gesang Weylas 12. Seufzer 13. Freund 14. Herz verzage nicht geschwind (Nr. 11/ Teil 2 aus / from Spanisches Liederbuch) 15. Drei Michelangelo-Lieder~Nr. 1 Wohl denk' ich oft 16. Drei Michelangelo-Lieder~Nr. 2 Alles endet, was entstehet 17. Drei Michelangelo-Lieder~Nr. 3 Fühlt meine Seele 1. Einsiedler, Op. 144a für Chor, Bariton und Orchester / for chorus, baritone and orchestra 2. Hymnus der Liebe, Op. 136 für Baritone und Orchester / for baritone and orch