. . . "These pieces have been written with such a society in mind??? wrote Hanns Eisler of his ???Hollywood Songbook,??? and this magisterial performance of a selection of Eisler???s works, juxtaposed with groups of Schubert settings of poems by Schiller, Goethe and other poets, carried with it the great hope that such a society is possible, 42 years after the death of the composer who had never heard a" .