Vocal music occupies an important place in the oeuvre of the composer Moritz Eggert, with songs for baritone and piano being particularly numerous.

As a pianist, he regularly works with outstanding artists in this vocal field, and so, in addition to the one-hour cycle Neue Dichter Lieben (not included on this recording), a number of shorter cycles and individual songs have been created over the years, most of which are now available here as first recordings – with the internationally renowned baritone Peter Schöne and the composer at the piano.

Eggert’s choice of texts is sometimes quite unconventional. In addition to poems by Birgit Müller-Wieland (Paradies Berlin), Helmut Krausser (Krausseriana), Ludwig Steinherr (Ein Dichter stirbt) and Albert Ostermaier (ausklang), there is also a collage of texts by or about Georg Büchner, among them an “arrest warrant of the Grand Ducal Court of Hesse”. In the two-song Neue Dichter Lieben – Appendix, Eggert has set to music the brusque rejection of a requested poet as well as the complete (bad) critique of the cycle's premiere.