Richard Strauss: Burleske in D minor, TrV 145 | Kirill Gerstein w/ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Alan Gilbert | George Enescu Festival | 21.09.2021 | Bucharest Palace Hall
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The Burleske in D minor is a composition for piano and orchestra written by Richard Strauss in 1885-86, when he was 21.
The work's original title was Scherzo in D minor, and it was written for Hans von Bülow, who had appointed Strauss assistant conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra. However, von Bülow considered it a "complicated piece of nonsense" and refused to learn it. He said the piano part was "Lisztian" and "unplayable", particularly for a pianist with a small handspan (Strauss says that von Bülow could barely reach an octave). Strauss rehearsed the work with the Meiningen Orchestra, conducting and playing the solo part himself, but then set it aside. He wrote to von Bülow: "[G]iven an outstanding (!) pianist, and a first-rate (!) conductor, perhaps the whole thing will not turn out to be the unalloyed nonsense I took it for after the first rehearsal. After the first run-through, I was totally discouraged." (Wikipedia)
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