Meier/Breinl – Edinburgh festival review

Usher HallWaltraud Meier can be a puzzling artist. No one would question her pre-eminence as one of today's finest dramatic mezzos and Wagner interpreters. Hearing her in lieder, however, is a more equivocal experience. This recital with pianist Joseph Breinl was a curiously uneven affair, though it also revealed that she has lost none of her ability to take us by surprise.A group of Schubert songs and Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben formed the first half of the programme. The high point of ...

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