Volume 30 of the New Liszt Edition is made up almost entirely of transcriptions of Schubert Lieder for solo piano. The volume starts with Die Rose, Liszt's first, earliest song transcription, followed by Lob der Tränen, then the series of 12 Lieder selected by Liszt: 1. Sei mir gegrüsst, 2. Auf dem Wasser zu singen, 3. Du bist die Ruh, 4. Erlkönig, 5. Meeresstille, 6. Die junge Nonne, 7. Frühlingsglaube, 8. Gretchen am Spinnrade, 9. Ständchen von Shakespeare, 10. Rastlose Liebe, 11. Der Wanderer, 12. Ave Maria. The volume concludes with a transcription of the overture to Rossini's Guillaume Tell.

As customary, there are two versions of the publication: a blue clothbound edition and a grey softcover edition. The preface, which gives the most important information on the contents and technical details, is identical in both versions, but only the former includes an English description of the sources and a critical commentary. Both versions include facsimiles of pages from Liszt's original autograph manuscript.