Peter Schreier (1935-2019)

[Historian]

Peter Schreier has died at the age of 84.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50920235?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world&link_location=live-reporting-story

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah, sad news - a very fine singer.

[Petrushka]

More sad news in the musical world! I particularly treasure his David in Die Meistersinger with Karajan. Also, as a conductor, his very fine Mozart Requiem with the Staatskapelle Dresden.

[teamsaint]

Even though I am a relative newcomer to his singing , his class was absolutely unmistakable.
Love listening to him.

[Richard Barrett]

Absolutely one of my favourite singers, I prefer hearing him in the Lieder repertoire to anyone else.

Gute Nacht. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZb6a6wr_60

[Dave2002]

I'll echo the sentiments above - a very fine singer and musician.

Peter Schreier: RIP

[ardcarp]

One of my very favourite tenors in his heyday. Such effortless high notes! RIP Peter

[Richard Tarleton]

All of the above. I was lucky enough to see him, in the QEH in the mid 1970s, performing Die schöne Müllerin with Geoffrey Parsons - one of those treasured and unforgettable evenings.

[edashtav]

Peter Schreier was one of the great tenors of the second half of the 20th century. As the son of an East German Kantor, it's unsurprising that his career was built on JS Bach. How many tenors have sung at the Salzburg Festival for 25 successive years? Sadly, I never heard him live but his voice and interpretative excellence define my memories of several works. I shall not forget Peter as Palestrina in Pfitzner's Opera, for instance.

[gurnemanz]

Peter Schreier was not only a great singer but a man loved and admired in Saxony and a huge presence in the cultural life of the DDR. He was a former chorister in the Dresden Kreuzchor who stuck around in his homeland when he could have gone for a more glossy career in the West. I heard him many times and hope to get around to giving a more detailed appreciation at some point.

[ardcarp]

[he] stuck around in his homeland when he could have gone for a more glossy career in the West

Yes, this was mentioned on the Radio 4 News this morning. Good that his artistry was noted by the main news channel.

They also went on to discuss Billy Budd and The Marriage of Figaro, opera being a passion of today's guest editor.

[greenilex]

Heavenly voice. What a legacy.

[Darkbloom]

His Winterreise with Richter is an incredible recording, two outstanding artists at their best.

[Bella Kemp]

I treasure his Winterreise recorded with Richter in a bitterly cold Dresden Winter which showed itself in constant audience coughing - somehow this coughing added depth and meaning to the performance. One imagined the dying Schubert also coughing as he penned his immortal music.