Arnold Schoenberg's 150th year continues with a very nice bouquet of lieder sung by the legendary Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This very eclectic collection, made available for the first time to digital partners, spans every cycle of songs with piano written by the composer, a part of his catalogue that is still rarely recorded nowadays. It runs from the early works very much inspired by the late Romantics, to the lieder from Op. 48, published in the late years of Schoenberg but composed in 1933 according to the twelve-tone technique. Those had remained widely unknown for obscure reasons, partly due to the political situation in Germany and the threats the composer was facing just before he fled to the United States.
