Title: Great opportunity compromised
Product review: The material on this disc is excellent. But seeing it was very painful for me for two reasons. What I heard over the entire interview was not the voice of Fischer-Dieskau but a voice-over narrator. This is a truly reprehensible practice. The producers should have preserved the original voice of the artist, with English subtitles for those of us who do not know German. A similar problem plagues the almost ninety-minute long Schubert recital. It is a wonderful recital, but without subtitles. This is inexcusable, given the capabilities of the DVD technology. I have the DVD of F-D singing Schubert's Wintereise, and the subtitles immeasurably add to the overall experience.This is unfortunate. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the greatest lieder singer of his generation, and deserves better presentation than this disc provides.
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