Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Partying like it’s 1899: two lieder recitals reviewed

4 November 2017 9:00 am

If a symphony is, as Mahler famously put it, ‘like the world’, then songs and lieder are like seeing that…

The Heckler: my decades-long campaign against Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

13 June 2015 9:00 am

For anyone who has been interested in classical vocal music since the middle of the last century, whether choral, operatic…

My Schubert marathon

4 October 2014 9:00 am

Just how much fun is it listening to all 650 of Schubert’s songs, asks Damian Thompson