A Schubert Song on YouTube

(Michael Bouman's "Creating Interest" Blog)

This week I wrote a piece about one of my favorite singers and a representative performance at the height of his powers. The singer is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the song is "Gute Nacht," the first of twenty-four songs in a cycle titled "Die Winterreise," and the video is of a live performance, perhaps on Japanese TV, in 1966. Fischer-Dieskau was forty-one at the time. His career began in 1947 and continued to his retirement in 1992. At the time of this video he was the most-recorded voice in history.