Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925 – 2012)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at Bayreuth
1954
Tannhäuser (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Lohengrin (Der Heerrufer)
1955
Tannhäuser (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Parsifal (Amfortas)
1956
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Fritz Kothner)
Parsifal (Amfortas)
1961
Tannhäuser (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Fischer-Dieskau is one of the few singers who take an active interest in contemporary music. His fastidiousness and meticulous preparation were astonishing in the performances of Stravinsky's Abraham and Isaac (in perfect Hebrew!) and in works by Lutoslawski and Aribert Reimann, which I was fortunate enough to perform with him. I also remember doing a recording with him of Il matrimonio segreto by Cimarosa, and it was fascinating to see how he managed, with his mixture of intuition and German thoroughness, to capture the comic aspects of the character as well as the Italian language.
Daniel Barenboim in A Life in Music