Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen - Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1971 [24/96]

Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen, TrV 290 - Study for 23 Solo Strings
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Studio recording, 1971
Remastered to 32 bit float/96000 Hz as a digital release available for download

[@MrMichaelvier]

Dies ist eine der absolut besten Einspielungen von diesem genialen Meisterwerkes von Richard Strauss:-)danke fürs Posten

[@jackcrane7853]

Do I not sense Mahler in here?

[@jackcrane7853]

@@ilirllukaci5345 OH, yes I do. And If YOU don't, go to the ear doctor.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

@@jackcrane7853 Go to the bot doctor. This has nothing to do with Mahler, not even the Mahler of the last movement of the 9th symphony. Don't you get it? Strauss was mourning what was destroyed. And Mahler replaced that. Strauss's and Mahler's music and personalities are apples and oranges. Everything gets conflated. Pfitzner and Schmidt and Furtwängler and many other composers actually detested Mahler's music. Szell came around to conducting it, but would freely speak of what low regard it had been held in. And Szell was obviously close with Strauss and with the musical tradition the loss of which was being mourned here. Do you hear in this piece anything that points towards the second viennese school? I certainly don't, but I do all the time in Mahler, particularly the later works. Everything isn't the same and everyone isn't the same. But people nowadays want it to be so.
I would say however that between the earlier symphonies of Mahler and the earlier tone poems of Strauss they did share some common influences from Berlioz and Liszt. In fact I always thought that Mahler's first symphony was influenced by the Symphony Fantastique. But Metamorphosen is very different from the tone poems of Strauss's prime. And extremely different from the temperament expressed in the adagietto of Mahler's 5th, the andante of the 6th, the amoroso of the 7th, the adagio of the 9th, the Abschied from DLVDE, or any of the 10th. And certainly from the opera that Mahler (never) wrote.
I didn't mean to be rude. I'm in a bad mood. And yes this work is death haunted, like so much of Mahler's and so much of Romantic music in general.

[@mewleen]

I sensed Mahler 's symphony 5 here.