Wilhelm Furtwängler “Metamorphosen” R. Strauss

27 Comments on "Wilhelm Furtwängler “Metamorphosen” R. Strauss"

1. ekrenek | 23/04/2011 at 03:57 | Responder

   This is truly a historic document and the most amazing Metamorphosen ever recorded. Period. After you read the notes – Strauss, Furtwangler, the BPO, 1947 – little else need be said by way of commentary…

2. Irololo Ahah | 22/07/2011 at 19:04 | Responder

   Somptueuse et bouleversante interprétation!

3. AirSea1000 | 20/08/2011 at 17:51 | Responder

   I absolutely agree with ekrenek and I assume that this was the first recording of the piece just a year after its original performance. The Furtwangler interpretation is perfect in all respects – the only other really excellent translation of this work was by Barborolli and the Halle which I think was recorded in 1968

4. DerVomFreitag | 22/06/2012 at 11:29 | Responder

   This evening I will hear it in Richard Strauss' GARMISCH – Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2012 ;-))

5. airslicer1311 | 01/10/2012 at 06:57 | Responder

   Richard Georg Strauss (június 11, 1864 – szeptember 8, 1949) – it would be nice to fix the date of birth …

6. OrchestrationOnline | 08/10/2012 at 20:38 | Responder

   Definitely the standard by which all other recordings and performances are measured. A transcendent work of self-reflection, like Prospero breaking his staff – which evolved in the mind of a recovering Central Europe as an expression of atonement.

7. 誠一郎西中 | 29/01/2013 at 21:11 | Responder

   濃い！！

8. prevalain | 09/03/2013 at 10:57 | Responder

   Sans doute l'interprétation où le désarroi du vieux compositeur passe avec le plus d'éloquence mais aussi avec le plus de sobriété. Une pure merveille.

9. THEMGOROTH75 | 05/06/2013 at 16:49 | Responder

   Ah,yeees my friend!! This is EPIC art!!

10. Bernard SESOLIS | 07/06/2013 at 15:52 | Responder

    C'est beau à pleurer ! Pleurer de joie.
    J'ai rarement entendu une interprétation aussi intériorisée et à la fois aussi communicative. Un miracle !

11. michael knight | 04/09/2013 at 19:07 | Responder

    One of the treasure of the human kind!

12. THEMGOROTH75 | 13/09/2013 at 18:24 | Responder

    listen to the theme at 11.23 – 11.59 !!

13. gian paolo Puglisi | 14/09/2013 at 19:35 | Responder

    A masterpiece !
    Thanks a lot

14. Rasmus Søndergaard | 05/11/2013 at 22:38 | Responder

    This is still beyond me! In time maybe!

15. gian paolo Puglisi | 08/11/2013 at 09:37 | Responder

    Two Geniuses !
    Thanks a lot

16. Sage Thanatos | 26/06/2014 at 23:57 | Responder

    aaahhhhhhhhhhhh………

17. Huw Zosimos | 16/07/2014 at 11:50 | Responder

    This must have meant so much to the players and conductor who had lived through the years of madness and destruction. There are many great performances of this transcendent work, but this must surely be  one of the most historic. Wonderful to hear it.

18. RemovdSande11 | 29/09/2014 at 11:38 | Responder

    Incredible

19. Massimo Caronti | 20/10/2014 at 18:57 | Responder

    A 1.25 SI SENTE ANCHE A TOSSIRE…..!!!!!

20. mariokoification | 21/10/2014 at 19:23 | Responder

    Puls vom Anfang bis Ende, keine unnötigen und geschmacklosen ritardandi, wie aus einem Stück Marmor!
    Best Interpretation I ever heard. Have played this piece some 30 times in Munich Chamber Orchestra, but nobody managed to get this piece in this form. And I guess, nobody is going to, pity…
    Vielen Dank for posting this recording! 

21. Chester Kitty | 20/11/2014 at 03:17 | Responder

    One of the few good things Hitler did-meow, was to create the conditions necessary for the composition of this epic work. meow?

22. Derek Sharp | 03/04/2015 at 09:38 | Responder

    AirSea1000 I believe the Karajan recording 
    
    predates this one.

23. AirSea1000 | 05/07/2015 at 01:50 | Responder

    there is no better performance of this deeply moving and so very important piece of music. In memory for Berlin was how this great piece of music by Richard Strauss was written but Metamorphosen is so much more than just being that. It is today a brilliant reflection on how society and attitudes have changed for the worse.

24. Matthew Stull | 01/01/2016 at 12:32 | Responder

    Thank you for these Furtwangler recordings. Feelin' it

25. Larry Cox | 02/04/2016 at 04:56 | Responder

    There seems to be variations on Beethoven symphony 5 and then what sounds like Wagner in the first movement. Listening as I type.

26. Bob Burns | 27/08/2016 at 05:08 | Responder

    My God! That's beyond beautiful.

27. Thomas K. Geydan | 04/02/2017 at 19:25 | Responder

    Truly moving!