The honour of performing Schubert’s 'Winterreise' at the Salzburg Summer Festival is reserved for only remarkable artistic personalities. In 1978, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Maurizio Pollini came together for the first and only time as a lieder duo to perform this cycle and thankfully Austrian Radio were there to record this unique encounter. Fischer-Dieskau’s legendary balance of words and music remains unsurpassed; Pollini not surprisingly provided much more than mere accompaniment, with tempi and dynamics, at times quite startling. Two artists whose intellectual and expressive stature needs no further introduction.