Igor Stravinsky, "Concertino for Twelve Instruments"

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5. Concertino for Twelve Instruments (1952)

Boston Symphony Chamber Players

Joseph Silverstein, Violin
Jules Eskin, Cello
Doriot Dwyer, Flute
Ralph Gomberg, Oboe
Laurence Thorstenberg, English Horn
Harold Wright, Clarinet
Sherman Walt, Bassoon
Matthew Ruggiero, Bassoon
Armando Ghitalla, Trumpet
Rolf Smedvig, Trumpet
William Gibson, Trombone
Gordon Hallberg, Bass Trombone

The same year, in 166, Stravinsky arranged his Concertino forstring quartet for twelve instruments - flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, two bassoons, two trumpets, two trombones, violin, and cello -and in this form it received its first performance in Los Angeles the same year. Orignally the Concertino was written for the Flonzaley Quartet and occupied the composer during the summer of 1920. It is a single-movement work, written in a free sonata allegro with a concertante part for the first violin. When transcribing it Stravlnsky took the opportunitv of rearringing it, and making other minor adjistments, but the concertante violin part remains as before. -- Robert Layton