Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

This morning brings news of the death of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who would have been 87 in just ten days. Terry Teachout has this; the Guardian has an obituary here; the New York Times runs a much more extensive obituary by Daniel Lewis here. Below, a YouTube video of the great lieder master singing Franz Schubert’s Erlkönig. His accompanist is Gerald Moore.