My recording of Winterreise is sung by Fischer-Dieskau! I also have Mahler’s Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen with DF-D! I’m at a loss for words to describe that man’s voice...smoothest I’ve ever heard; and he makes it sound almost effortless...
Sung by Fischer-Dieskau. Schubert composes an instant folk song. Catch the piano imitating the sound of far away horns in the introduction.
Fischer-Dieskau is awesome. A modern day rival would be Bryn Terfel. Terfel has a more resonant lower range, but still that silky smooth quality so admired in F-D.
But, IMO, the man who truly had the voice of an angel was Fritz Wunderlich. He is my favorite male singer of the 20th century.