Songs 1

Dietmar Ungerank prepared his arrangements in collaboration with the singer Gina Pietsch, one of the students of the great Eisler interpreter Gisela May. The guitar versions follow the original piano pieces very closely, but develop striking, idiomatic accompanying motifs as well. The familiar editions of Eisler’s songs for voice and piano (DV 9087-9090) were used as a guideline for the organization of the arrangements according to the poets of the texts. Volume 1 contains settings of texts by Brecht, Volume 2 of texts by Kurt Tucholsky and others.