The CD is, like the previous, relatively clearly tailored to the audience of Florian Silbereisen and Carmen Nebel. This is not new, as Mireille is limited in Germany has always been in large part to popular music. It contains old recordings without exception, the older people know from earlier or similar easily digestible foods are. As a little hint, hint that Mireille still singing, there are also each a title from the last hit album from 2007, 2009 and 2013, to do so. So if you want the big hits and those titles that have what can be, will not be disappointed. Catchy melodies, pleasing arrangements and Mireille in musical top form - which is definitely advisable. Overall, a nice stroll through the pop career, because there are also lesser-known titles with the CDs, although they know the fans who could but be and please the novice or casual listener quite unknown. Hence, the stock selection fulfills its purpose, because with new recordings but nobody expected anyway, after there was a completely new album just last year.
For fans and collectors the Box offers music but shockingly little new, considering the huge repertoire and the many, many ways to make a CD for collectors interesting, who are already anything else before the cabinet. For Ariola that brings out all Mathieu recordings in Germany since 1968, this role in the design of this product. Although we all as a "personal selection of favorite songs Mireille itself" is sold, which is actually in it, but we do not know of course. Basically, most titles have already been there several times on CD, and only three hits are found for the first time on CD. These songs are just - like the rest - (why not, if you but otherwise tries to advertise with any invalidity?) For no apparent connection with purely been diced and not marked time as CD-first publications. The English song "Dear Madam" from 1970 is very pretty and I like that, but acts arbitrarily between the pop packed misplaced. The only rare on the CD - "Waltz d'amour" - has hitherto been unpublished in the English version. But even here there is no indication on the origin, the first publication, instead the song disappears behind "Akropolis adieu" somewhere on CD 2. Why not Ariola relies on the advertising effect of so-called. Rarities, I do not understand. Another missed opportunity is that you can us fans do not even offer one of the new French chanson - that perhaps there was no room, because "Tarata-Ting, Tarata-Tong" had still with it!
From an editorial perspective, Ariola has also made no unnecessary overtime. The booklet is indeed lovingly designed and illustrated with many photos, at least I did not know until then or had, the biography, however, reads like a promotional text and that includes all too much of the praise and adulation (which I do not begrudge Mireille heart ), but few real interesting facts. Always the same phrases and stories that are told about the career of Mireille Mathieu, are listed, but background research was obvious neither planned nor desired. Resumieren to such a long and extensive career worthy that works uniquely different, but again: pretty product and quite nice for the eyes! You do not want to ask too much yes.
What bothers me most is the fact that the CD and the DVD box, both clearly belong together design and betitelungstechnisch, are tuned in repertoire and other content but not in any way to each other, let alone have a complementary effect. For a 5-star product love is lacking a coherent whole with appropriately coordinated expenditures. Pity!