Nearly all the songs recorded here were written during Hanns Eisler´s exile years, and thus belong for the most part to the imaginary cycle of a "Hollywood song-book", which Eisler at one stage planned to put together from the songs he wrote in the United States.
These songs are exemplary for the way biographical, aesthetic and political elements are combined in the small-scale prism of the art song.
Eisler´s American songs show clearly how these elements made the rebirth of the "Lied" possible in the first place; the genre is seen here in search of a new meaning, independent of tradition and convention.
The interpretations on this album were recorded at Sender Freies Berlin, Kleiner Sendesaal, in December 1987 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, and Aribert Reimann, piano.
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