Richard Strauss / Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon (Harold Wright & Sherman Walt)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon with string orchestra & harp (1947) 00:00 - Allegro moderato 06:25 - Andante 09:37 - Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo Harold Wright, clarinet Sherman Walt, bassoon Boston Symphony Orchestra, dir. Seiji Ozawa (broadcast performance of 12 March 1988) “Richard Strauss composed the Duet-Concertino in late 1947, completing the score on December 16. It was first performed in Lugano, Switzerland, on April 4, 1948, with Otmar Nussio conducting a small orchestral ensemble from the orchestra of the Italian-Swiss Radio. The score bears the dedication ’Hugo Burghauser, dem Getreuen’ (’to my faithful Hugo Burghauser’); the dedicatee had been the bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic. In October 1947, the eighty-three-year-old Richard Strauss made his first journey by airplane to accept an invitation to London, which allowed him to see some of his old friends, including Dr. Ernst Roth