Richard Strauss: Duett-Concertino, TrV 293 (1947)

00:00 - I. Allegro moderato 06:30 - II. Andante 09:19 - III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo (in cominciando un poco esitando) _____ Bassoon: Klaus Thunemann Clarinet: Thomas Friedli Conductor: Matthias Aeschbacher Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra Year of Recording: 1989 _____ “The Duet-Concertino, Richard Strauss’ last completed composition, is one of those works from his final years -- the Oboe Concerto (1945) and the two Sonatinas for Winds (1943 and 1945) are others -- in which he sets aside the large orchestras and big Romantic gestures that characterized most of his music in favor of a more restrained, almost neo-classical style and a more transparent orchestral sound. Dedicated to the composer’s friend Hugo Burghauser, one-time bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Duet-Concertino was completed late in 1947. It was written for the small orchestra of Radio Svizzera Italiana (the Italian-Swiss Radio in Lugano, Switzerland), which gave the work its first p