Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Horn Concerto No 1; Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Horn Concerto No 1; Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite

ORC100261 (Orchid Classics, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (17 November 2023)

Playing time: 77'38"
Tracks: 15
Booklet pages: 16
℗ 2023 Orchid Music Limited
© 2023 Orchid Music Limited
Main country of recording: Denmark
Country of manufacture: European Union
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Horn Concerto No 1; Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite published on 18 December 2023

Andreas Fosdal, oboe
Jakob Keiding, french horn
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra
Toshiyuki Kamioka, conductor

Richard Strauss:

Oboe Concerto, TrV 292
1 Allegro moderato -
2 Andante -
3 Vivace - Allegro

Horn Concerto No 1, Op 11
4 Allegro
5 Andant [sic]
6 Allegro

Der Bürger als Edelmann Suite
7 Ouverture zum 1 Aufzug (Jourdain-der Bürger)
8 Menuett
9 Der Fechtmeister
10 Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider
11 Das Menuett des Lully
12 Courante
13 Auftritt des Cleonte (nach Lully)
14 Vorspiel zum 2 Aufzug (Intermezzo) (Dorantes und Dorimene Graf und Marquise)
15 Das Diner (Tafelmusik und Tanz des Küchenjungen)

With its chief conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka at the helm, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra performs three of Richard Strauss's most sparkling scores: the Oboe Concerto, with soloist Andreas Fosdal, the First Horn Concerto, played by Jakob Keiding, and the suite from Der Bürger als Edelmann. Strauss's Oboe Concerto is in three seamless movements: a pastoral opening with ornate oboe lines leads into a radiant slow movement and virtuoso finale. Strauss' famous horn-playing father inspired his first Horn Concerto, which reveals his evident relish for the horn's uninhibited, bucolic character as it cuts through the orchestral colours. Strauss's music for Der Bürger als Edelmann (based on the seventeenth-century Molière-Lully collaboration Le bourgeois gentilhomme) is an early instance of neoclassicism, originally composed to be performed immediately before his opera Ariadne auf Naxos. The result is a quintessentially Straussian confection, combining lyricism and good humour.

Recorded on 18-21 February 2019 and 23-27 March 2021 at Konservatoriets Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark.