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Richard Strauss' Duet Concertino & Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings
Add to my Calendar 25-05-2024 19:30 25-05-2024 21:30 36 Richard Strauss & Tchaikovsky Richard Strauss' Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon is the last purely instrumental work that Strauss wrote. Completed in 1947 and premiered in 1948, the scoring for this work is distinctive in that Strauss divides the strings into 'Soli' and 'Tutti' sections, in the manner of the Baroque Concerto Grosso. Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings Op.48 was composed in 1880 and first performed in St Petersburg in 1881 at a Russian Musical Society Concert. A work in four movements, its score was used as the foundation to the George Balanchine ballet 'Serenade'. St Albans URC Church, St Albans DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Albans URC Church
Homewood Road
Homewood
St Albans
AL1 4BH
England
Tickets
Prices: £12 (£10 Concessions)
Booking line: 07891 397123
Programme
Richard Strauss – Duett-Concertino, TrV 293
~ Interval ~
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48
Performers
Debbie Barnes – bassoon
Alison Eales – clarinet
Steven Joyce Myall – Conductor
Programme Note
Richard Strauss' Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon is the last purely instrumental work that Strauss wrote. Completed in 1947 and premiered in 1948, the scoring for this work is distinctive in that Strauss divides the strings into 'Soli' and 'Tutti' sections, in the manner of the Baroque Concerto Grosso.
Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings Op.48 was composed in 1880 and first performed in St Petersburg in 1881 at a Russian Musical Society Concert. A work in four movements, its score was used as the foundation to the George Balanchine ballet 'Serenade'.
