Sorry to hear about your Olympia tickets, but like you, I would prefer having gotten the music tickets! :o)
Yeah, looking back today, I wouldn't like Dieskau as much as I did back then, also missing emotion in comparison; but back then I wasn't yet so well-honed in these subtleties of singing, despite having been a choir singer myself since age 5. But living in a small town, I didn't have many concert experiences yet (I was still at school then), mostly only knew the records of my parents, and it really was my first experience of a lieder cycle, and with Schubert, too. For that, it really was impressing; the way he sung was very new to me. When I listen to the same songs today, though, I can only agree with you.
For me, it's the same with Karajan's recordings. I had an intensive Beethoven phase around age 14 or 15, and tried to get as many symphonies on record as I could; and since Karajan was the "hero" of the day, at first I wanted them as well. But oh how that changed when I listened to my first Furtwängler recording! :o)
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Date: 2012-01-24 09:35 am (UTC)Yeah, looking back today, I wouldn't like Dieskau as much as I did back then, also missing emotion in comparison; but back then I wasn't yet so well-honed in these subtleties of singing, despite having been a choir singer myself since age 5. But living in a small town, I didn't have many concert experiences yet (I was still at school then), mostly only knew the records of my parents, and it really was my first experience of a lieder cycle, and with Schubert, too. For that, it really was impressing; the way he sung was very new to me. When I listen to the same songs today, though, I can only agree with you.
For me, it's the same with Karajan's recordings. I had an intensive Beethoven phase around age 14 or 15, and tried to get as many symphonies on record as I could; and since Karajan was the "hero" of the day, at first I wanted them as well. But oh how that changed when I listened to my first Furtwängler recording! :o)