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Author: wjk
Date: 2006-01-29 17:46
Has anyone played R Strauss' Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Strings? Any recommended recordings?
Thanks.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-01-29 19:14
Unfortunately I never got to play it, but the recording I have is with Dimitri Ashkenazy and Kim Walker, with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Berlin RSO. It's a lovely work, and well played on this recording--part of a Decca 2-CD set which includes all of Strauss's instrumental concertos.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-29 20:25
Written in 1947, first performance was in 1948 ...GBK
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2006-01-29 20:36
My favourite recording (actually one of my all time favourite recordings of any clarinet playing) is the recording with Thomas Friedli and Klaus Thunemann. Unfortunately I've never had the oportunity to play this wonderful piece.
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Author: kenb
Date: 2006-01-29 20:53
Some interesting reading...
Strauss dedicated the work to Hugo Burghauser, who was solo bassoon of the Vienna Phil. He was also chairman of the orchestra, and in that capacity stood against the anti-semitism of the Nazi regime.
Dan Leeson wrote a fine tribute to Mr Burghauser. It's in the Klarinet Archives.
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Author: wjk
Date: 2006-01-29 21:41
The Oboe Concerto has a fascinating story---Strauss met an American soldier as WWII was ending who was an oboeist who suggested that Strauss write a piece for the oboe......
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-01-29 22:50
And that soldier was John deLancie; later principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra!
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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-01-30 17:09
How odd that i have never heard of a Concertino for clarinet and bassoon by Strauss! That is amazing! Klaus Thunemann is THE bassoon player to look for when hunting for recordings. I will check it out. Thankyou all!
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Author: wjk
Date: 2006-01-30 17:16
Its an impressive work in my opinion---the oboe concerto is quite appealing as well.
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Author: ogogli
Date: 2006-01-30 17:16
There is an excellent recording from Larry Combs, David McGill and the CSO. Check it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059TL6/qid=1138644683/sr=8-14/ref=sr_8__i14_xgl15/103-7727002-7547010?n=507846&s=classical&v=glance
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2006-01-30 19:32
That is an excellent recording. Larry Combs makes it all sound so effortless, doesn't he?
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2006-01-31 20:08
There's also a nice recording with David Schifrin and the LA Chamber Orch.
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-02-01 22:31
Larry Combs' recording is superb ... but a another one or more "german" feeling one is in the superb cycle with the Dresden orchestra and Rudolph Kempe
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: GMac
Date: 2006-02-02 04:27
There is a really great recording of it out there with Chicago Symphony with Daniel Barenboim and it also has the oboe concerto on that CD! Definitely worth it to check it out...it also has the Strauss first horn concerto and a random piano/horn solo piece.
I'm glad that you clarinetists like the oboe concerto even though you're not oboists...that encouraging! (yes, I'm an oboist)
Graham
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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-02-02 11:05
VERY VERY encouraging......and i must say that the Ray Still CSO recording is also superb.
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Author: chedmanus
Date: 2006-02-02 11:50
Richard Hosford has an excellent recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the best in my book.
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Author: ogogli
Date: 2006-02-02 16:50
Just for the record, the CD with the CSO and Daniel Barenboin, brings the Oboe Concerto, performed by Brazilian oboist Alex Klein.
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Author: wjk
Date: 2006-02-02 16:55
There is an interesting parallel to Brahms---a composer in the later years of his life creating emotional pieces for woodwinds...as Brahms was inspired by Muhlfeld, Strauss may have been inspired by deLancie...
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Author: RodRubber
Date: 2006-02-03 05:31
There are also other composers besides brahms and Strauss who wrote clarinet pieces very late in life. (Obviously Mozart) In fact, if im not mistaken, both Saint-Saens, and Max Reger wrote clarinet works in their last year. Reger really composed the hell out of his clarinet quintet. That work is really wonderful. I have never heard a live performance either. Maybe ill perform that piece this summer.
The Strauss concertino is a work of true poetry. Lately, i have been warming up by playing the opening clarinet part. It really gets the air flowing. Its interesting to listen to several different recordings available, and notice the different places where the performers take their breaths.
Best
Post Edited (2006-02-03 05:34)
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Author: nellsonic
Date: 2015-08-20 13:35
Author: wjk (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: 2006-01-29 21:41
The Oboe Concerto has a fascinating story---Strauss met an American soldier as WWII was ending who was an oboeist who suggested that Strauss write a piece for the oboe......
Re: R Strauss' Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Strings
Author: LarryBocaner (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: 2006-01-29 22:50
And that soldier was John deLancie; later principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra!
And John DeLancie's son, also named John DeLancie played the arch-villain Q in the Star Trek series. Only three degrees separation between Strauss and Star Fleet!
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Author: John Peacock
Date: 2015-08-20 16:05
Strauss's "beauty and the beast" is full of lovely things, and I'm very fond of it. But it's a more problematic piece than the uniformly great works written at the same time (Oboe concerto and 2nd Horn concerto), and needs careful handling to bring out its best qualities. From a purely musical point of view, I've never heard a performance to match the Kempe recording. They resist a forced profundity with too-static slow sections (a common error), but have a perfect rubato where appropriate so that the key moments really register.
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Author: classicalguss
Date: 2015-08-20 17:53
There is a wonderful performance on the BSO (out of print) set with Harold Wright and Sherman Walt. I did get to play this a number of years ago with my friend, Gilbert DeJean.
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