Joseph Marx (1882-1964)
"Waldseligkeit", texte de R. Dehmel
"Selige nacht", texte de O. E. Hartleben
"You Are the Garden", cycle de 4 Lieder pour voix et instrument, op. 77 n° 3

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
"Green", Ariettes oubliées n° 5, Aquerelles I, texte de P. Verlaine
"Il pleure dans mon cœur", Ariettes oubliées n° 2, texte de P. Verlaine

Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
3 Lieder de Heinrich Heine, op. 4

Gerald Endstrasser (1962-)
"Waldseligkeit", texte de R. Dehmel

Georges-Emmanuel Schneider (20e)/Wayne Darling (1945-)
"Wordless"

Esther Kretzinger, soprano
Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, violon
Tim Collins, vibraphone
Wayne Darling, contrebasse
Gerald Endstrasser, batterie

After attracting attention with her clear soprano voice in the classical and opera genre, German singer Esther Kretzinger disco vers new paths with her second album Sound of a Poem. Together with a small jazz ensemble of international reputation, she sheds a new light on a special selection of Romantic and Impressionistic songs by Claude Debussy, Joseph Marx and Othmar Schoeck. With the Swiss violinist Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, New York's vibraphone player Tim Collins, renowned bassist Wayne Darling and Austrian drummer Gerald Endstrasser, Esther Kretzinger works out the essence of these songs in the language of jazz, showing th at the difference between Impressionist music and jazz often lies more in externals such as sound colour, articulation and instrum entati- on rather than in its artistic core.