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"All those concerned with this project are to be heartily congratulated. I will listen to this splendidly performed release again and again." - MusicWeb International "... it would be hard to find more committed advocates (for the Mahler arrangement) than Prégardien and the expert players of Ensemble Kontraste. As ever, Prégardien sings with an unaffected directness that by no means precludes subtlety." - Gramophone Quite often, lieder originally intended for solo voice with piano accompaniment are rearranged for fuller orchestration. Sometimes the composers themselves put a small instrumental ensemble or even a complete symphony orchestra in the place of the original piano part. One of the composers who adapted a piano score for a complete orchestra was Gustav Mahler with his orchestration for his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ("Songs of a Wayfarer"). Arnold Schoenberg created a new version for flute, clarinet, harmonium, piano, string quintet and percussion; this instrumentation was taken by the Ensemble Kontraste as the starting point for this project called Wanderer in collaboration with tenor Christoph Prégardien. Revolving around Mahler’s lieder as well as 16 lieder by Robert Schumann, the goal was to retain the liveliness heard in the piano accompaniment while at the same time creating an instrumental colour palette that far surpassed it.