Forest Bliss

For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald has made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers, which have been performed throughout the world with huge success. Richard Strauss left a wealth of wonderfully sensitive and subtle songs from all decades of his compositional output, many of them written specifically for his wife, the singer Pauline Strauss-de Ahna.