Songs by Erich Zeisl, Vol. 2

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Though he composed in a variety of genres – choral and orchestral works and an opera among them – Erich Zeisl was a consummate Lieder composer whose songs are richly melodic, inventive, and cast in a late Romantic idiom. In his settings he responded to a range of ideas – the subjects of the night and light were potent ones, and he mined a vein of irony and humour. Forced from Austria in 1938 he wrote no further Lied after settling in America but arranged some Spirituals, drawing on the music of a similarly oppressed people as his own.