- Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Edith Wiens, Uwe Gronostay, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Gerhard Faulstich, RIAS Kammerchor
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Kilduff, Ferdinand Leitner, Edith Wiens, Deon Van der Walt, Gwynne Howell
- Herbert Blomstedt, Staatskapelle Dresden, Ute Walther, Russian National Orchestra, Edith Wiens, Dresden State Opera Chorus, Sveshnikov Boys and Men's Choir, Jakob Stampfli, Werner Hollweg, Reiner Goldberg, Barbara Hölzl, Ursula Fiedler, Moscow Radio Children's Choir, Karl-Heinz Stryczek, Rudolf Barshai
- Mainz Bach Choir, Verena Schweizer, Mainz Bach Orchestra, Edith Wiens, Helena Jungwirth, Friedreich Melzer, Hans-Joachim Bartsch, Barbara Biermann, Kurt Widmer, Diethard Hellmann
- Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Edith Wiens, Jeunesses Musicales Chorus, Aldo Baldin, Uwe Gronostay, RIAS Kammerchor, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Iván Fischer, Gerhard Faulstich, Mária Zádori
Edith Wiens
Singles & EPs
- Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Edith Wiens, Uwe Gronostay, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Gerhard Faulstich, RIAS Kammerchor
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Kilduff, Ferdinand Leitner, Edith Wiens, Deon Van der Walt, Gwynne Howell
Compilations
- Edith Wiens, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Eva Csapó, Walter Heldwein, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helen Watts, Gabrielle Schnaut, Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Huttenlocher, Doris Soffel, Aldo Baldin, Peter Schreier, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Lutz-Michael Harder, Adalbert Kraus, Arleen Auger, Indiana University Chamber Singers, Carolyn Watkinson, Niklaus Tüller, Frankfurt Kantorei, Wolfgang Schöne, Júlia Hamari
- Philippe Huttenlocher, Gabriele Schreckenbach, Ulrike Sonntag, Lutz-Michael Harder, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling, Adalbert Kraus, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Elisabeth Graf, Aldo Baldin, Edith Wiens, Arleen Auger, Walter Heldwein
- Edith Wiens, Roland Hermann, Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hildegard Hartwig, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Helmut Franz, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Günter Wand, Jürgen Schulz, Keith Lewis
Biography
Canadian soprano Edith Wiens initially forged a reputation overseas in the concert hall, largely because of her numerous acclaimed appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. But she also gave many highly praised recitals elsewhere across Europe. Wiens was a relative late-comer to opera, though, making her major debut in 1986 at Glyndebourne singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Thereafter, she balanced her career mixing in opera with concert work and recitals. In opera she has tended to favor Mozart, but her repertory otherwise is quite broad, taking in lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Richard Strauss; masses by Mozart and Beethoven; Haydn's The Creation; Mahler symphonies; Gershwin and Stephen Foster songs; and various folk songs and carols. Wiens has been widely praised for the beauty of her vocal tone, the clarity of her diction, and the intelligence of her phrasing. A Grammy and Diapason d'Or award winner, she has recorded for EMI, Philips, Telarc, and Erato. Edith Wiens was born in Saskatoon, Canada, on June 9, 1950. Her father was a Mennonite minister and young Edith studied at the Bible College in Vancouver and later at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover, Germany. She graduated in 1974, and then enrolled at Oberlin College, where she earned a master's degree in 1976. She later took vocal lessons privately with Ernst Haefliger in Munich. After her 1979 first prize win at the Robert Schumann Music Competition in Zwickau, Wiens established a busy career in Europe, especially in Germany. From 1981-1886 she made 14 appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. During this period she also sang with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in two J.S. Bach concerts (1985). Following her 1986 Glyndebourne debut Wiens became a familiar face at other important operatic venues, including La Scala, Amsterdam Opera, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. She gave highly acclaimed recitals in Moscow in 1989 and 1990. 1990 was also the year she won a Grammy Award for her recording of Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri. From about the early '90s, Wiens began making more frequent appearances in North America: her Toronto recital debut came in 1994 and her 2000 appearance with the New York Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's St. Paul drew rave notices. In the new century Wiens remained active as a singer, but also serves on the faculties of the Munich Hochschule für Musik and the Hochschule für Musik, Nürnberg-Ausburg Abt. Augsburg.