R Strauss - Burleske, Oboe Concerto, Duet Concertino, Till Eulenspiegel | Audite AUDITE95604

R Strauss - Burleske, Oboe Concerto, Duet Concertino, Till Eulenspiegel

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE95604

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 22nd June 2018

Contents

Artists

Leon Goossens (oboe)
Heinrich Geuser (clarinet)
Willi Fugmann (bassoon)
Margrit Weber (piano)
RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Conductor

Ferenc Fricsay

Works

Strauss, Richard

Burleske in D minor for piano and orchestra
Duett-Concertino, TrV293
Oboe Concerto in D major
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28

Artists

Leon Goossens (oboe)
Heinrich Geuser (clarinet)
Willi Fugmann (bassoon)
Margrit Weber (piano)
RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Conductor

Ferenc Fricsay

About

The Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay was considered to be the man for modernism when, in 1948, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the RIAS Symphony Orchestra that had just recently been founded. Thus it was only logical for him to focus on the latest works by Richard Strauss: the Oboe Concerto and the Duet Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and strings, both of which the composer created after World War II. Despite their retrospective musical language, these pieces at that time belonged to the most topical works of contemporary music production. Also, the small instrumentation presented the opportunity for Fricsay to train the soloistic potential of his musicians. The remarkable level that Fricsay, in such a short time, was able to guide his young orchestra to is also to be heard in the recordings of Till Eulenspiegel and the Burleske where Fricsay’s unsentimental, anti-romantic interpretation is astonishing.

The production is part of our series “Legendary Recordings” and bears the quality feature “1st Master Release”. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For all historical publications at Audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives.

In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today’s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts or old shellac records cannot be compared with these.

Recorded 1949-55, Berlin

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