Imre Szechenyi composed throughout his life- even though he really and truly had many other things to do. After diplomatic missions to Rome, Stockholm, Brussels, Paris, and St. Petersburg he represented the interests of the Habsburg monarchy as the Austro-Hungarian ambassador in imperial Berlin. Bismarck’s famous and notorious Alliance of the Three Emperors bears Szechenyi’s signature, and he played a significant role at the Berlin Conference on the Congo. His international experience is also reflected in his songs, which on this rewarding new release are now certainly being heard for the first time in very many years.Accompanied by Helmut Deutsch on the venerable “Manfred Burki” Steinway D, Katharina Ruckgaber and Jochen Kupfer once again bring these wonderful songs to life. Whether alone or in a duet, the manifold influences in Szechenyi’s musical language distinguished by internationalism invite us to discover familiar things in surprising things. Inquisitive listeners and discriminating music lovers get what they are looking for on this carefully honed Super Audio album representing recording technology at its finest!