(1990) R. Strauss: Concertos for Wind Instruments Erwin Stein regularly appearing at the most

regularly appearing at the most important opera houses

the storms of Romanticism are still far away

But it is an art and esthetic beauty totally void of any ethical value

All three were good friends: they often met in Rossini’s villa in Rome in order to enjoy each other’s music and company

Die in diesem ertragreichen Sommer entstandenen Werke zeichnen sich alle durch eine «herrliche Frische der Phantasie» aus

(1990) R. Strauss: Concertos for Wind Instruments Erwin Stein regularly appearing at the mostThe works which Strauss composed during the last years of his life demonstrate a stylistic transformation in which he imposed more and more radical constraints on his mode of expression in preference for a music in which luminosity and lucidity ruled. The three works on this recording, the Horn Concerto No. 2, the Oboe Concerto and the Duett Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon, can be characterized as a homage to Mozart, particularly to his music for