Richard Strauss

These previously unpublished piano pieces will appear in print for the first time in three volumes. Volume I contains fairly short individual pieces (1872-83) of widely varying difficulty. Volume II w...

The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss is still characterized by the traditions of the 19th Century; indeed, the musical content of the composer's early piano works is determined to a large e...

During his youth, Richard Strauss composed a large number of works for piano solo, among them numerous sonatas. Yet it was only the Sonata in b-minor that he obviously considered important enough to w...

Feierlicher Einzug

Richard Strauss, der vor allem seiner Opern und Tondichtungen wegen bekannt ist, komponierte während seines ganzen Lebens auch eine große Zahl von Liedern. Wie es zuvor Franz Liszt mit Liedern Franz S...

Brass Quintet.

The Cello Sonata Op. 6 was composed over an apparently frequently interrupted period of three years, an extraordinarily long time for Strauss's early creative phase. The compositional process spawned...

Just a few months after completing his Cello Sonata op. 6, Strauss composed another work for this instrument: a Romance for cello and orchestra, which remained unpublished during his lifetime. Accordi...

Aside from the Piano Quartet op. 13 and the Violin Sonata op. 18, the Cello Sonata op. 6 numbers among the most mature works of chamber music from Strauss' early œuvre. The influences of Mendelssohn,...

From Janos Starker: DON QUIXOTE by Richard Strauss is based on Cervantes's saga of the adventures of the Don, and is one of our major cello works. When I first performed it with Fritz Reiner and the C...

This arrangement from the composer's own orchestration is for cello solo with accompanying octet. This contains a set of parts only, available as a digital download. N.B. The score is available separa...

In 1880 Richard Strauss began composing the 'Sonata for cello and piano' op. 6. Before it went to print in 1883 he revised the complete piece. Only the first movement remained unaltered. Strauss dedic...

In 1881 Richard Strauss began composing the 'Sonata for cello and piano' Op. 6. The first movement was premièred in 1882. In 1882/1883 he completely revised the sonata: He made profound changes in the...

Stimmen in C, Bb, Eb (Bassschluessel), Klavier, Percussion

Having recorded the work, Pahud noted that there were no print editions of this violin sonata available for flutists. Understanding that 'it was quite common for flautists to make their own adaptation...