The first set was as good as it gets, the second set was even better, and the third set is best of all. Of course, this is impossible. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's three sets of the nearly complete songs of Schubert don't really get any better from volume to volume. His voice -- his marvelous voice, the voice of German Lieder in our time -- was sublime in the earliest songs of the first volume and just as sublime in the later songs of the second volume. His interpretations -- the most sensitive, soulful, intelligent, and ...
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The first set was as good as it gets, the second set was even better, and the third set is best of all. Of course, this is impossible. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's three sets of the nearly complete songs of Schubert don't really get any better from volume to volume. His voice -- his marvelous voice, the voice of German Lieder in our time -- was sublime in the earliest songs of the first volume and just as sublime in the later songs of the second volume. His interpretations -- the most sensitive, soulful, intelligent, and sublime -- were sublime in the early songs and the late songs. And pianist Gerald Moore was still the accompanist without peer in every song. But the third set is still the best of all because this is the set with the three great cycles -- Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang -- and no matter how great the individual songs are, the cycles go further into the heart and soul of man. And Fischer-Dieskau goes further, too: his Die schöne Müllerin is love, youth, spring, and...
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