As if looking back on his youth toward the end of his life, Richard Strauss wrote a second concerto for horn and orchestra, again in Eb major, around sixty years after his first concerto for horn. Thi...
Composed at the end of a longer series of works between summer and autumn 1887, the violin sonata numbers among Strauss' most popular chamber music compositions to this day. In the outer movements, it...
Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs (Vier Letzte Lieder) Op Posth. are for high voice and piano with English translations by Michael Hamburger.
Für Isolde Ahlgrimm, die das Cembalo bei der Premiere der Oper 'Capriccio' spielte, fügte Strauss zu dem eigentlichen Cembalopart einen Konzertschluss hinzu und schuf so eine eigenständige Version der...
With his 1st Horn Concerto, the only 18-year-old Richard Strauss achieved a ravishing stroke of genius. To this day, the concerto is loved all over the world (not only) by horn players and, along with...
Die klassische Oboen-Trio-Bearbeitung erlaubt es allen drei Spielern vom selben Ausgangspunkt aus heranzugehen. Es ist ein Trio entstanden, in welchem die wunderschönen, lyrischen Melodien des Konzert...
Richard Strauss composed his second horn concerto about 60 years after his first horn concerto, having recently considered that his actual creativity had come to an end with his opera Capriccio. The l...