Waltraud Meier sings Strauss and Schubert
Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Joseph Breinl (piano)
Meier... is accompanied by Joseph Breinl, a young pianist whose interpretation already possesses a wonderful maturity. He accentuates the orchestral side of Schubert’s piano setting just as...
Waltraud Meier sings Strauss and Schubert
Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Joseph Breinl (piano)
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Meier... is accompanied by Joseph Breinl, a young pianist whose interpretation already possesses a wonderful maturity. He accentuates the orchestral side of Schubert’s piano setting just as...
About
What’s Waltraud Meier’s secret to her 30 years of international success on stage?
"Authentic empathy for the respective part", she tells us, "This is the only way for the audience to understand its essence." But it is more than that, it’s her charismatic acting intensity, her acting skills, her elaborate vocal technique, as well as her frenetic singing culture. She is constantly taking up new challenges, working on herself and trying to intuitively grasp a new vocal part.
Only when she can fully identify with the song or the part, when the boundaries between the part and the self are blurred, only then can the performance be convincing, says the artist.
With Joseph Breinl, she has found an ingenious partner whose primary concern is to equally learn, develop, and improve new things. They both aim to grasp what is written in the music, what the composer wanted to express. "We are servants of music, not self-exposers!"
Contents and tracklist
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
- Waltraud Meier, Joseph Breinl
Awards and reviews
klassik.com
Meier... is accompanied by Joseph Breinl, a young pianist whose interpretation already possesses a wonderful maturity. He accentuates the orchestral side of Schubert’s piano setting just as colourful as the intimate chamber musical moods so that... Schubert’s songs are rendered in an outrageously dense and tonally beautiful way. […] Finally, in the evergreen "Zuneigung", Waltraud Meier shows the wide range of her voice, which even in extremely slow passages retains its inner cohesion.
Main-Post
great potential and presentation possibilities […] Each word of the poetry is felt with emotion and meaning through the music. Schubert’s 'Erlkönig' is in itself an experience, in how Meier interprets the roles of the King of the Elves and also of the little boy trembling with fear.
Frankfurter Neue Presse
If there is a thrilling story to be told, such as 'Gretchen am Spinnard' or even more so in 'Erlkönig', Waltraud Meier launches into the dramatics of the story, and just as she is on the stage performing opera, she is a pure actress.
Opernwelt
Accompanied by Joseph Breinl, who provides a richly colourful interpretation, in the piano version by Wolf and Roth, she makes Strauss’s "Vier letzten Lieder" the high point of the whole-hearted and exciting recital, a genre in which she has much experience. […] She almost makes mini-operas out of the songs, using the whole spectrum of theatrical colours right up to the dramatic scene of Schubert’s 'Erlkönig'
Das Opernglas
excellent vocal and lyrical presentation. An 'Erlkönig' brilliantly graduated in terms of colour becomes the highlight of the CD
