Richard Strauss: Duett Concertino, Tr V 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 DuetConcertino, 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 neoclassical style and a more transparent orchestral sound. Dedicated to the composer s friend Hugo Burghauser, onetime bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic, the DuetConcertino was completed late in 1947. It was written for the small orchestra of Radio Svizzera Italiana (the ItalianSwiss Radio in Lugano, Switzerland), which gave the work its first p