Pablo Massa wrote:

>I've seen that Herr Fischer-Dieskau hasn't been mentioned often in
>this (till now) short thread.  I don't think that he *must* be mentioned
>necessarily, but this silence about his person intrigues me.  I throw the
>glove, like Don Quijote with the portrait of Dulcinea: who in this list
>dislikes FD's Winterreise or Schwanengesang or whatever, and why?.

I do not dislike FD, in fact I like and admire him but sometimes I
think he is too rational.  I prefer singers who "just sing" like Prey
and Wunderlich.  BTW, I asked the question for the favourtie Winterreise
on the Lieder-List, too.  There Hotter/Moore is No.  1 (8 mentions),
followed by Fischer-Dieskau/Moore (6), then Fassbaender/Reimann and
Fischer-Dieskau/Brendel (5).  A third FD version (with Demus) got 4
mentions.  So the "experts" know that FD is a Lieder god.

Robert Peters