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Strauss, Schubert | Lieder

Waltraud Meier - Joseph Breinl

Recorded at Farao Studios Munich, 2007

CD



  • Richard Strauss
  • 1. Cäcilie
  • 2. Winterweihe
  • 3. Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten
  • 4. Morgen!
  • 5. Die Nacht
  • 6. Befreit
  • 7. Zueignung

  • Franz Schubert
  • 8. Dem Unendlichen
  • 9. Wehmut
  • 10. Die Forelle
  • 11. Gretchen am Spinnrade
  • 12. Nachtstück
  • 13. Erlkönig

  • Richard Strauss
  • 14. Vier letzte Lieder
  • version for voice and piano by Max Wolf and Ernst Roth
  • 15. Frühling
  • 16. September
  • 17. Beim Schlafengehen
  • 18. Im Abendrot


  • Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano)
  • Joseph Breinl (piano)

    • 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!"

    Press review

    Frankfurter Neue Presse

    Pure Waltraud Meier ... 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 …
    md, 11.01.08

    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.
    31.12.07

    Das Opernglas

    … excellent vocal and lyrical presentation. An 'Erlkönig' brilliantly graduated in terms of colour becomes the highlight of the CD …
    A. Laska, Januar 2008

    klassik.com

    … Waltraud Meier presents Schubert’s Lieder with finest nuances between lyrical devotion and dramatic outbursts. But she has also a talent for the airy, playful parts, as she demonstrates with her extremely vivid version of Schubert’s "Forelle". She 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, in cooperation with Waltraud Meier’s expressive presentation, 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 …
    Paul Hübner, 23.11.07