Description

Just a few months after completing his Cello Sonata op. 6, Strauss composed another work for this instrument: a Romance for cello and orchestra. The Romance remained unpublished during Strauss' lifetime, but the autograph manuscript indicates it was finished on June 27, 1883, and Strauss prepared the piano reduction himself. Though long overshadowed by the cello sonata, the Romance is regarded as one of Strauss' most mature youthful works, and it received several quite successful performances by the then-famous principal cellist of the Munich Court Orchestra, Hanuš Wihan. Only since the posthumous first edition in 1986 has the music world been rediscovering this striking work, which now also appears in a Henle Urtext edition.