Zeisl: Songs by Erich Zeisl, Vol. 2

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.