Title: Lieder by Erich Zeisl, Vol. 2 Artist: Michelle DeYoung Label: Naxos Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 730099146432 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2024-11-08 Number of Discs: 1
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 did not write any Lieder after settling in America but arranged some Spirituals, drawing on the music of a people similarly oppressed as his own.
