Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a Lied composer, Robert Franz (181592) has since become a peripheral figure in music history. As they began to explore the songs of Franz, Georges Starobinski and baritone Christian Immler were moved by their findings to devise a program including twenty-three of the composers often quite brief songs. Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, they present these all Heine settings but from different opus groups in the form of two imagined song cycles, framed by further settings of Heine poems by Schumann and Liszt.