This second volume of Hyperion's newest lieder series features the great dramatic and musical gifts of mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager. Kirchschlager is an ideal performer of these most varied, complex and emotionally charged songs. She is accompanied by the multi-Gramophone Award-winning Julius Drake, who curates the series. The songs recorded here encompass thirty years of Liszt's life and contain many examples of the hidden beauties of this undervalued composer's works.