CD - New Edition
FARAO Classics has just released a CD with songs of Richard Strauss and Franz Schubert. Grand-Piano: Joseph Breinl. The CD will bei available at better outlets.
CD - New Edition
Warner Classics has just released the live recording of Ludwig van Beethovens 'Symphony No. 9', taken in August 2006 at the Philharmonie in Berlin with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim,
Mezzo-Soprano: Waltraud Meier, Soprano: Angela Denoke, Tenor: Burkhard Fritz, Bass: René Pape. The CD will bei available at better outlets.
DVD - New Edition
Waltraud Meier's fascinating life and career has been captured in a video biography.
Ever since her acclaimed début in the role of Kundry at Bayreuth in 1983 at the very latest, Waltraud Meier has been one of the top-flight Wagner performers of our time, and setting standards in the meantime in the Italian and French repertoire, too. Not only does this present film document her in a wide variety of roles but we also experience her in conversation backstage, a fascinating personality who enjoys her professional life and takes an active part in planning it. This portrait of an outstanding singer is then rounded off by an enthralling live recording of Mahler's Lied von der Erde from the Cologne Philharmonie directed by Semyon Bychkov.The film with the title 'I follow a voice within me' will be available in finer outlets in DVD (Label: TDK), reference number 1051889 DV-WMLVE.