Concerto
Copland • R Strauss
R Strauss: Duet Concertino*: Capriccio - Prelude**; Copland: Clarinet Concerto: Appalachian Spring- Suite (1944 version)
Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet), *Stepan Turnovsky (bassoon), - -Academy of London; Northern Sin(bnia/ Richard Stamp
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Late Richard Strauss and middle-period Copland is an odd coupling. Even the recordings are disparate, the Copland tracks dating from 2014, the Strauss from 1990-91. True, all the music here is from the 1940s, with the concertos - both composed between 1946-48 - being played by the late Ernst Ottensamer, the Vienna Philharmonic's sometime principal clarinet.
Strauss's Duet-Concertino goes very nicely, the initiall y disputatious soloists gambolling amicabl y through its extended rococo finale. Unfortunately; several details of Strauss's elaborate interactions for solo stringgroup and string orchestra and harp are
