"I just heard your wonderful Sinfonietta: hope this is the beginning of your American success," wrote Arnold Schönberg to Zemlinsky. But Zemlinsky was already suffering from the effects of a stroke and died alone in New York just a few days later. In his Sinfonietta, Op. 24 (1934) he reused a short theme from the last of his Maeterlinck-Songs, Op. 13 (1913), "Wohin gehst Du?" (Where are you going?), a theme of "self-doubts" and "farewell" from a time when Zemlinsky was beginning to observe growing anti-Jewish sentiments in Vienna. The Maeterlinck-Songs were praised as "the center of his output" by Theodor Adorno, and transport the listener to a mystic world concerned with life, evanescence and death.

Track List:
01. Sinfonietta, Op. 23: I. Sehr lebhaft
02. Sinfonietta, Op. 23: II. Ballade. Sehr gemessen
03. Sinfonietta, Op. 23: III. Rondo. Sehr lebhaft
04. 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, Op. 13, Book 1 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Die drei Schwestern
05. 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, Op. 13, Book 1 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, Die Mädchen mit den verbundenen Augen
06. 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, Op. 13, Book 1 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, Lied der Jungfrau
07. 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, Op. 13, Book 1 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 4, Als ihr Geliebter schied
08. 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, Op. 13, Book 2 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 5, Und kehrt er einst heim
09. 6 Songs after Poems by Maeterlinck, Op. 13, Book 2 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 6, Sie kam zum Schloß gegangen
10. Der König Kandaules, Op. 26 (Excerpts): Prelude to Act III
11. Der König Kandaules, Op. 26 (Excerpts): Mein Ring