Six Songs, after Poems of Christian Morgenstern, soprano and piano

Sechs Lieder, nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern

Comparable to Alban Berg whose 'Seven Early Songs' show through in the music, Heinz Holliger has picked out some truly rapturous youth songs, set them up in easy arrangements and scored them for orchestra. Apart from being used as piano reduction, the original meaning of this edition remains evident: another piece in the great tradition of the German lied for voice and piano.