The concertos of Richard Strauss

[Barbirollians]

Thanks to those who recommended the Tuckwell/Kertesz record of the Horn Concertos . It is included on a Double Decca of which secondhand copies are knocking around . The second CD includes not only a surprisingly interesting recording of the Violin Concerto with Belkin /Ashkenazy and a sound recording of the Duet Concertino but an outstandingly beautiful performance of the oboe Concerto with Gordon Hunt.

The first CD also includes a vintage but very convincing account of Burleske with Gulda /LSO and Collins .

A fine set .

[Pulcinella]

In the BaL thread on the second horn concerto, I mentioned the David Pyatt recording, which I thought was the only one I had.
This new thread caused me to dig out what I thought was my only recording of the violin concerto (Xue-Wei/LPO/Glover, on ASV), but I suddenly realised that the Kempe Dresden box set I have is not just the tone poems, as I had mistakenly thought/misremembered, but orchestral works in general, with Peter Damm in the horn concertos (I must now listen out for the 'German' sound), Manfred Clement in the oboe concerto, and Ulf Hoelscher in the violin concerto.
That's some of this weekend's listening sorted, then!

[mikealdren]

Sadly, for someone who wrote so well for the instrument, Strauss never wrote a mature violin concerto. His early concerto is pleasant enough and has been recorded a few times but, Sarah Chang apart, has never attracted the top players. I've only heard it live once.

Had we ever had a thread on great works that were never written?

[Richard Barrett]

Had we ever had a thread on great works that were never written?

- like Beethoven's opera Macbeth, or Django Reinhardt's "When I'm Cleaning Windows"?

[Serial_Apologist]

- like Beethoven's opera Macbeth, or Django Reinhardt's "When I'm Cleaning Windows"?

Is this a dagger I see before me, or just a harmless little man on a ladder, peering in?