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?. There isn't anything to dislike about FD singing anything, but for a long time, he was one of only a few choices, and he recorded the damn thing 15 times (perhaps I exaggerate). I think it's the old addage that familiarity breeds contempt. FD is so omnipresent in the world of lieder singing that he is easily taken for granted. Kevin