Gerhaher, who is forty-two, took master classes with Fischer-Dieskau and speaks of his predecessor in worshipful terms.

NEWYORKER: The Master��s Wake

Often, Gerhaher makes his presence felt not by turning up the volume as Fischer-Dieskau routinely did, even when no crescendo was indicated in the score but by fading away.

NEWYORKER: The Master��s Wake

ABSTRACT:MUSICAL EVENTS about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christian Gerhaher, and Florian Boesch.

NEWYORKER: The Master��s Wake

Fischer-Dieskau, who died on May 18th, at the age of eighty-six, loomed so large in the world of classical music that he became something like a city monument a statue that no longer fully registers with the crowds hurrying by.

NEWYORKER: The Master��s Wake

It is on Decca Classics, and features singers Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Galina Vishnevskaya (who was invited to participate in the actual premiere but was prevented from doing so by Soviet officials), along with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of the composer.

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