Dietrich Fischer Dieskau: "Meine Liebe ist grün"; Johannes Brahms

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ============== Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau--baritone Karl Engel---piano 1959 ================ “Born: May 28, 1925 - Berlin, Germany Died: May 18, 2012 - Berg on Starnberg Lake, Bavaria, Germany The German bass-baritone, Albert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (= DFD), is the youngest of three sons from his father’s second marriage. His father Albert (1865-1937), a classical scholar, was a secondary school principal, and his mother Dora (1884-1966) was a teacher. His family came from a line of what might be called the ’professional’ middle class: teachers, doctors, architects and clergymen; however, his father’s mother was a member of the von Dieskau family, whose ancestors include Kammerherr von Dieskau for whom J.S. Bach wrote his Peasant Cantata (BWV 212) in 1742. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s musical interests and talent were evident early in his life, but he was no chil