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Composer Christian FP Kram devotes himself to an almost forgotten genre: he writes piano lieder intimate, lyrical, pointed miniatures of text and music. Mareike Schellenberger mezzo-soprano and Christopher Jung baritone, as well as the pianists Jan Roelof Wolthuis and Olivier Lechardeur, present five of his song cycles, almost all of which are world premiere recordings on a new GENUIN album. Among them are songs based on texts by Hermann Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sargon Boulus, Katerina Rudcenková and Kevin Perryman. Kram's songs are fascinating soundscapes: compositionally differentiated, but always in their creator's original and concise musical language.