Burlesque for piano and orchestra

Burleske ( German: Burleske ) for piano and orchestra in D minor - a work by Richard Strauss , written in 1885 - 1886 . The duration of the sound is about 20 minutes.

Recently receiving the position of conductor at the Meiningen Court Orchestra , Strauss intended his work, originally called Scherzo, to the head of the orchestra, Hans von Bülow , who had a great influence on him. Scherzo's music reflected both the youthful passion of Strauss by Johannes Brahms and the interest in the work of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner , more important for his further creative development. Bulow found Scherzo's piano part to be too complicated, and the music unsatisfactory as a whole, although not without glimpses of individuality; Strauss began rehearsing the play himself, intending to act as a soloist, but quickly abandoned this idea. However, in 1889, the composer met the pianist Eugene d'Albert , who approved the play and recommended a number of amendments, after which it also had a new name. D'Albert performed the premiere of Burleschi on June 21, 1890 in Eisenach , in the same concert for the first time the more famous work of Strauss, “ Death and Enlightenment ”, was performed. Subsequently, D'Alber also played Burlescu with von Bülow as a conductor. Strauss, however, continued to hesitate regarding the merits of the work and published it only in 1894 ; over time, however, he became attached to Burlesque, so in 1947 she entered the program of his last performance as a conductor in London ^[1] .

Burlesque was included in the repertoire of Claudio Arrau , Wilhelm Buckhaus , Glenn Gould , Rudolf Serkin , Svyatoslav Richter and other outstanding pianists, it was recorded by Poldi Mildner , Paul von Schilhavsky , Friedrich Gould , Marta Argerich , Emanuel Ax , Helen Grimaud - Jean , Helen Grimaud - Jean Janice , Malcolm Frager . In 2011 , a new Burlesque recording was released, performed by Mark Andre Amlen and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Ilan Volkov ) for the series “Romantic Piano Concert” by Hyperion Records and received unanimous rave reviews from critics ^{[2] [3] [4] [5 ] ]} .