Sonata for cello and piano in F major, Op. 6, TrV 115
Zueignung, Op. 10/1, TrV 141
Ich trage meine Minne, Op. 32/1, TrV 174
Don Quixote - Fantastic Variations on a Knightly Theme, Op. 35, TrV 184

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 Müller-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.

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Recording: Köln, Deutschlandfunk, Kammermusiksaal, 17.01.2019 (Tr. 1-5); Melbourne, Hamer Hall Arts Centre, 21.-26.6.2017 (Tr. 6-19). Daniel Müller-

Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727, and a bow fro Paris, 1820.