Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Heiss mich nicht reden
Singet nicht in Trauertönen

Josephine Caroline Lang (1815-1880)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt

Enjott Schneider (1950-)
Immer eins wie alles achten
Die volle Welt
Des Menschen Seele gleicht dem Wasser

Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944)
Nähe des Geliebten

Anton Webern (1883-1945)Gleich und Gleich
Blumengruss

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Zur Rosenzeit

Dorothea Hofmann (1961-)
Aus dem Divan

Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Kennst du das Land

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Perduta ho la pace

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Meine ruh ist in

Franz Schubert (1897-1828)
Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen
Ufm Bergli bin I gsässe

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Anakreons grab

Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817)
Dei Spröde

Johannes Martin Kränzle (1962-)
An die Günstigen
Frühlingssonnenstunden
Die Ungüngstigen

Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
An Suleika

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Wer wird von der Welt verlangen

Ute Ziemer, soprano
Hiroko Imai, piano

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was not only one of the greatest and most important of the German poets, but without doubt also the one whose lyrics were most frequently set to music. The album “Goethe Project” by the German soprano Ute Ziemer and pianist Hiroko Imai provides a lasting impression of the diversity of composers who used Goethe's works as the basis for songs. In addition to popular composers such as Schumann, Grieg, Schubert, Verdi, Strauss, Wolf or Wagner, there are also barely performed works by Amy Beach, Johann Xaver Sterkel, Fanny Hensel, Josephine Lang, Anton Webern or Alban Berg. Even to this day, Goethe continues to fascinate composers as a poet, as shown by the songs dedicated to Ute Ziemer by Enjott Schneider (*1950), Dorothea Hofmann (*1961) and Johannes Martin Kränzle (*1962), which were recorded for the first time for this CD.