On a quest between unrequited love, passion and apocalypse, here you can sometimes hear despairing, pausing, but also conciliatory and optimistic songs from Vienna at...

On a quest between unrequited love, passion and apocalypse, here you can sometimes hear despairing, pausing, but also conciliatory and optimistic songs from Vienna at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The tenor Norbert Ernst and Kristin Okerlund presented selected songs by Austrian composers Franz Schreker, Alexander Zemlinsky and Wilhelm Kienzl. The Wang Valley Songs by the Wiener Neustadt composer Michael Salamon, dedicated in 2010 to Mr. Ernst, were written after seven poems from the cycle The Wang Valley by the greatest Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei (around 701–61).