Muller-Schott/Melbourne So - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Sonata for cello and piano, Songs Op. 10 and Op. 32

During his long and exceptionally fruitful creative life, Richard Strauss (1864�1949) composed only a few works for the cello. Only three have survived and small as that number may seem, those cello works are critical to the composer�s development. Daniel M�ller-Schott sees the early Sonata for cello and piano op. 6 and the late tone poem �Don Quixote� op. 35 as marking the path that was to lead Strauss within the space of a few years from Romanticism to the Modern era in music. The cellist highlights this watershed in Strauss�s artistic development with his own transcriptions, expressly made for this CD, of the Lieder �Zueignung� op. 10/1 and �Ich trage meine Minne� op. 32/1.