Rehearsing Gustav Mahler with Waltraud Meier (from “Multiple Identities: Encounters with Barenboim“)

In this excerpt from the documentary “Multiple Identities: Encounters with Barenboim“ (2001) Daniel Barenboim rehearses Gustav Mahler’s “Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen“ and “Lob des hohen Verstandes“ from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn“ with singer Waltraud Meier. Subscribe to EuroArts: The documentary tracks the pianist-conductor Daniel Barenboim through Berlin, Chicago and Weimar up to his stage anniversary in Buenos Aires and ends up with his controversial performance of Wagner’s ’Tristan and Isolde’ in Jerusalem. Barenboim’s insistence that it is possible to be Jewish and to enjoy the music of an alleged anti-Semite was not a view shared by everyone in a land where feelings run high. For five decades of performing on stage, Daniel Barenboim has been one of the leading musicians worldwide and one of the most influential intellectuals taking an active part not only in musical matters. “Multiple Identities - En