The orchestral songs of the now almost forgotten Viennese composer and late Romantic Karl Weigl date from 1916, while the Rhapsody for String Orchestra, although dating from the String Sextet composed in 1906, was composed together with the Piano Concerto only in 1931 and, like the latter, betrays a progressive yet completely organic, natural development. There are no radical changes of direction in Weigl's output, nor any signs of stagnation. We can perhaps best see where Weigl was to be placed in the New Music of the twenties by the fact that the Composition Prize of the City of Vienna in 1925 was awarded to four prominent artists: Karl Weigl, Franz Schmidt, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Weigl never reached the dissonant extremes of expression with his language as Alban Berg did, but the works on this CD show that he often ventured to the limits of his self-imposed scope. The Piano Concerto is the most unusual and original work on this CD, illustrating the transition from the tantalizingly seductive language of Weigl's early Viennese works to a more powerful, definite tone.