Ute Ziemer - Goethe-ProjectJohann 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,

Marx had merely wanted to create something new with his Moses

we hope Casey never stops wanting to be our Boogie Man

The intimate atmosphere and ingenious simpleness of the new album are remindful of some of the core qualities of the preceding "Iluzja"

simplistic

Carlos Montoya - El Flamenco

Darrin Bradbury writes about the way things really are in America - a singular perspective shaped by a natural gift for storytelling

In Italian with English subtitles

In writing this album

with lyrics newly and freely translated: "The stranger is arriving

as Ueno discovers that blinding him with science isn't anywhere near as simple as she'd hoped

Bound In Servitude (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)13

as in the dancelike Scherzo in typical 5/8 meter