Beethoven:
Maigesang op. 52 No. 4

Zelter:
Wo geht's Liebchen? (Mailied)

Reichardt:
Rhapsodie

Szymanowska:
Romance

Mozart:
Das Veiichen KV 476

When it came to setting his poems to music as art songs, Goethe preferred the approach of Carl Friedrich Zelter, who composed "carefully" and always focused on the rhythm of the language. Fortunately, not all composers adhered to the ideas of the poet prince, but rather, like Schubert for example, thought much more independently in terms of composition. The recording with Sofya Gandilyan and Fanie Antonelou thus creates a fascinating field of tension between the very different approaches of contemporary composers to Goethe's poetry.