Burleske in D minor

The Burleske for piano and orchestra offers at best hints of how Richard Strauss would later confess his admiration for Wagner - a motif representing the yearning for love in 'Tristan' is hidden in the final measures of a solo cadence. All the more clearly do we hear, by contrast, another influence; the rhythmic shifts, syncopations, and harmonies in thirds and sixths, which contermporary audiences felt to be decidedly 'Brahmsian'.