(1990) R. Strauss: Concertos for Wind Instruments Erwin Stein printed in 1805

printed in 1805

the Paris Opera

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

regularly appearing at the most important opera houses

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

(1990) R. Strauss: Concertos for Wind Instruments Erwin Stein printed in 1805The 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