(1990) R. Strauss: Concertos for Wind Instruments Erwin Stein But it is an art

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

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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

Malcolm Bilson has devoted the past quarter-century to the study and performance of late 18th and early 19th century Viennese keyboard literature on pianos of the period

(1990) R. Strauss: Concertos for Wind Instruments Erwin Stein But it is an artThe 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