The Best Classical Baritone of the 20th Century

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with the greatest piano accompanist of that same century, Gerald Moore. Here, they perform a song from Schubert's great song cycle, "Winterreise" ("Winter Journey"). The song is "Der Lindenbaum" ("The Linden Tree") - sung in German, of course.

Moore died in 1987, at 87. Fischer-Dieskau, now 82, has been retired as a singer since 1992. This video was shot in London in 1959.

[video=youtube;ZDFo_2SL0a8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFo_2SL0a8[/video]
 
wow! now go find Fritz Wunderlich! :D

I live to serve, JD. Here's Fritz Wunderlich (1930-1966), the great German tenor, singing a song by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) on German TV, probably from the early 1960s. The pianist is unidentified.

Wunderlich died when he hit his head after falling on a staircase just a few days before his 36th birthday.

[video=youtube;I0YZBKLoxH8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0YZBKLoxH8[/video]
 
Ach! wundervolle Stimme! What a voice! My teacher told me he was a notorious drinker and that probably led to the fall. What a loss...

Thank you!
 
And, for Someone a Little More Recent...

...the English tenor Ian Bostridge (born 1964) with the Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida (born 1948), performing Schubert's "Die Muller und Die Bach" ("The Miller and the Brook"); looks like from Japanese TV. The sound is a little low on this one. Interestingly, Bostridge made his singing debut in 1993, the year after Fischer-Dieskau retired. One out, one in...

Bostridge, by the way, began his singing career only after earning a Ph.D in history and philosophy from St. John's college, Oxford.

[video=youtube;M6bCPitAq4s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6bCPitAq4s[/video]
 
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