Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen
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- Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen.
Antoni Wit, Conductor.
Staatskapelle Weimar.
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This is one of those pieces that you think about all day and eventually become so excited to return home and listen that it becomes an obsession.
Yes
Amen!!
Or you can bring your earbuds and listen to it outside of your home
certainly
totally agree with u
No one scores the death of Western civilization quite like Richard Strauss.
According to Timothy L. Jackson's analysis:
0:00 Exposition, Group I, Motive 1
0:41 Motive 2
1:19 Motive 3
5:58 Group II, Subsidiary Theme 1, Motive 4: m.82
8:33 Transition I: m.130
8:46 Motive 5: m.134
9:15 Subsidiary Theme 2, Motive 6: m.144
11:25 Transition II: m.187
12:39 Development section I: m.213
14:05 Development section II: m.246
15:22 Development section III: m.278
16:12 Transition III: m.299
18:04 Reappearance of Group II Sub. Th. 1: m.345
19:34 Recapitulation begins: m.391
22:21 Overlap of Recap and Coda (Beginning of Coda): m.433
22:39 Transition IV: m.437
23:24 Recap resumes: m.449
25:58 Coda resumes: m.487
27:01 "Coda of the Coda," Paraphrase of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony movt. 2: m.502
This is an exquisite piece but you have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy it. It's not easy listening or light entertainment. I can't imagine anyone coming home at the end of a long, hard day and saying, "I need to chill and relax - I think Strauss' Metamorphoses would do the trick." No. But if you're in a contemplative mood and have half an hour to focus your attention exclusively on the music and let it carry you along in its very special sound world, Strauss' music can be cathartic. The appearance of Beethoven at the end and those final modulations are unbelievably dark and moving. Like Vaughan Williams and Verdi, Strauss could still conjure magic into his eighties.
The first time I heard this piece, I cried in the theatre. The performers told us the story of its composition, and I could just feel Strauss’s pain exuding from this piece
I have discovered this piece through this video when I was about 12, 6 years ago, now I can say it has remained one of my favourite pieces, and it kind of changed my life.
You are a pretty sensible person then.
It "metamorphoed" your life
You've reminded me that when I was 12 years old my father brought home a boxed set of 12 classical records. I always reflect back on that period of discovery with enormous gratitude. None of my friends in grade school or high school had any idea what was stirring in my soul. Oddly, this is my very first hearing of Metamorphosen. It is exactly what I need right now as I think about the recent death of a close friend. She was an exceptional human being, able to rise above the mediocrity of the world around her. Around us all. Davide, I think you have a real advantage in life. I wish you the very best as you embark on your adult life.
This to me is the most extreme music of grief.
Absolutely. Grief.
Can’t agree more
I would say that as well. But also to Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony and Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet.
@@MrDSCH-ib2mx I partly agree, but the emotion of Metamorphosen are different from - say - the Pathetique. I'm not sure what the right word is - despair maybe? The Pathetique is full on emotion, it cries with anguish and pain. The emotions are all on show. Metamorphosen is dark and bleak.
@@EASYTIGER10 That is true! I would say that the Pathetique Symphony and Metamorphosen shows different ways of showing emotion, sorrow, grief etc.
Toward the end of his life, Richard Strauss underwent a profound aesthetic change that resulted in some of the composer's most intensely personal and philosophical music. Among the most striking of these works from Strauss' final decade is Metamorphosen (1945), written in an atmosphere of devastation following World War II.
As a meditation on the bombing of Dresden (which destroyed the city and killed 130,000 of its inhabitants), Metamorphosen represents a significant departure from the more exuberant of Strauss' tone poems -- Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Don Juan, Don Quixote -- by that time a half-century old. In contrast to the vivid portraiture of those works, Metamorphosen is wholly unrepresentational, a tragic, pessimistic reflection on a more intimate level than any of Strauss' other music.
The work unfolds in a single, long movement. Strauss sustains and develops a series of recurring, interrelated motives that, as the title indicates, are linked by their transformation into new material rather than -- as in conventional variations -- a common thematic identity. The work includes several direct references to the funeral march in the second movement of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony; here they sound entirely appropriate and natural within the broader structure, underlying rather than emphasizing the somber nature of the work as a whole.
(AllMusic)
There are definitely quotes from "Adajio Albinoni". Or rather the origins?
only about 25,000 died
@@theonetheycallkad6768 Not true, and it was an abominable crime.
True....Same with that Meistersinger 3rd Act Vorspiel......OMyGod!
@@theonetheycallkad6768 From the "Encyclopædia Brittanica:"
"It is thought that some 25,000-35,000 civilians died in Dresden in the air attacks, though some estimates are as high as 250,000, given the influx of undocumented refugees that had fled to Dresden from the Eastern Front. Most of the victims were women, children, and the elderly."
What shocked me just now is that the bombing of that supposedly-insignificant (militarily) city was executed over a full *THREE days* (1945/02/13-15)...
In my mind this is what Kafka's Strasser heard when his sister played the violin in the living room: a most hauntingly beautiful sound, accompanied with the knowledge that he no longer is what he was. A seemingly irreversible metamorphosis. Yet, music never loses his potency, it heeds no human language.
Probably one of the jarring and despairing pieces of literature I have experienced thus far, it will forever be my favourite.
@@flyingmintbunnyouo9407 What's the book?
@@jodikirsh Kafka's Metamorphoses
19:29 when that melody comes back...but a little different with that b flat on the end of the phrase...gets me every time.
there was also a certain man who came back in 19:29... who did also get certain people every time
@@arthurlecomte8950 The dow Jones just fell down to zero, and its gonna be a fine swell day
I envy people who have such a refined understanding of music's structure.
I remember I first heard this piece in 2019. A friend of my mum's had given her two tickets for a recital happening in our town and I went with my sister. The main event of the recital was the Bruch Violin Concerto, but just before that, this piece was played. I had never heard of this piece before (I knew who the composer was) and I didn't know what to expect. I ended up being so captivated and moved by this music. It was so beautifully haunting and tragic that I went home that night with this piece stuck in my head and I had to give it another listen. And here I am still listening to it! A masterpiece.
Having the score is SO helpful. I'm just starting to learn this work and the texture is so rich and dense. Listening while reading along with the score makes it all so much clearer. Thank you
Hear that melancholy and nostalgia after war
"No one can really know himself,
detach himself from his inner being
Yet, each day he must put to the test,
What is in the end, clear.
What he is and what he was,
what he can be and what he might be.
But, what goes on in the world,
No one really understands it rightly,
and also up to the present day,
no one desires to understand it.
Conduct yourself with discernment.
Just as the day offers itself;
Think always: it's gone well up to now,
so might it go until the end."
Wikipedia says he wrote this in his journal while composing this
it is Goethe
Lovely
That was very enlightening. An insight into Strauss' own thoughts. Thank you for sharing.
My God...
What a phenomenal piece of music!
How have I never heard this before!
Such an intensely emotional, pure and inspired masterpiece! Richard Strauss was a true genius composer, well beyond his own era. Thank you very much for posting it
Strauss was born in 1864, he lived through these years where Europe exceeded the world on almost every level. He grew up with the modernistic idea that history was a story of constant progression, and that they reached a moment of exponential growth. Imagine that feeling of enthusiasm for the future... How utterly bitter it then must have been to see how wicked his own people became. His own nation, full of smart and creative people, flew too close to the sun; and Strauss saw them fall. How all these marvelous cities, with their beautiful buildings, turned into complete ruins. The Götterdämmerung had become real. And in the twilight of his own life, he saw it all happen. Richard Strauss was like Ezekiel after the destruction of Jerusalem.
How deserted lies the city,
once so full of people!
How like a widow is she,
who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces
has now become a slave.
History has never been a constant progression. America had marvelous cities too. Many of these were destroyed through the great fires of the 1870s and 1880s. The rest went farewell through expositions across the United States. We cannot replicate the architecture of yesterday. We have become incapable of the old beauty and its technology. Maybe someday in the future we can reach the great heights of the old and even higher. This piece is dealing and addressing what has happened.
He worked for the Nazi's too his job was to suppress any music coming from non-aryans
Beautifully written comment. Thank you!
Well, yes, but it was WW1 that shattered Europe and the narrative of progress once and for all.
Arthur Lecomte very beautiful writing, thank you Arthur.
I'm so incredibly happy this channel wasn't erased after all this copyright madness.
Since around 40 years this music haunt my soul, i have no words to say Why, still at this time...
So at least youre 50 years rn?
Metamorphosis, Metamorphoses in French, is a work written for 23 string instruments by Richard Strauss completed April 12, 1945.
This is an order from Paul Sacher but most of Metamorphoses was already written before. They were composed under the influence of emotion caused by the devastation of part of Germany during the Second World War.
Beautiful!
Thank you!
the counterpoint at times is stunning
probably the best ever written.
that chord around 0:32-0:33 completely overwhelmed me.
absolutely beautiful i had to grab my bass and try some voicings of it. F-7(9)/C
what chord is it? wow
how do you add a ninth to a chord in the piano? I know F minor 7 are 4 notes, it would be 5 notes?¿
Just follow up the notes of an aeolian minor scale skipping every other note. Tonic #3 5 #7 9 which is just a 2 an octave up. 2 plus seven equals 9. You can do this all the way up to 13. Same for dominant chords using the mixolydian scale and for major chords using the lydian scale also.
b3 and b7 I meant to say...
This art piece is so beautiful... one of the most sincere and purest expressions of the soul...
authentic music, not prefabricated, not materialistic
I heard the first 5 minutes of this piece on the radio and I just had to look this up online to hear the rest of it. Hauntingly beautiful.
I can't believe I've never heard this piece before
Dang! That is such an incredible sound!
Probably my favorite piece of music. Stunning.
That is saying quite a bit. You have extremely refined musical appreciation.
@@rr7fireflythank you
thanks for posting....always in tears when i hear this masterpiece...so beautiful.....fragile .....tragic.....fantastische Streicher ........und ein sehr einfühlsamer Dirigent....
The song of change, pain, and victory that breaks down stereotypes in an instant with simple, novel, and unconventional progression from the first measure, and silent shouts within a framework based on noble reason
One of the most beautiful, skillful, and touching pieces ever 💖
私は現代を除くクラシックの殆どの作曲者を愛好していますが、Rシュトラウスだけ苦手意識がありました。でも、この動画のおかげでその良さがかなり分かってきました♪感謝。
Strauss wrote this masterwork in part as a commission but also as homage to a Europe that was no more--
Richard Strauss himself wrote in his private Diary it practically was a "Requiem" for a Continent that annihilated itself with two world wars and nazism and other brutal totalitarian regimes. And such a Music is the best possible commentary for such an horrible "mass suicide" ;( ;( ...
Look, how deep and condensed this is! It will not give you even the break to feel your own fascination while listening it.
The passage at 22:35 gets me every time, so heartbreaking
Sounds like people crying for their lives.
Echt cooler Kanal. Gut gemacht und perfekt zum Lernen.
Even though the score is that of the septet version, the recording in this video is the one for the "23et" version. This version has some changes including an expanded violin section and more intrincate voicing. The music is the same though, that's why you can follow the video. Another amendment Strauss made was he eliminated the E-minor chord at the end, that's the way it is in my score. So there is no strange sound effect or non syncing of the video, simply the chord is not being played!
I didn't know about a septet version ; is it original from the author? Thanks
@@maxclavenna4495 I believe so, in fact, it may very well be the first version he crafted. I remember reading something about it in Norman del Mar's 3rd volume on the commentary of Strauss' life and work. I don't have it at hand but it's worth checking out
@@GBN_01 Thank You very much
G.B.N. Strauss didn’t write the septet version, he left only a few sketches. Rudolph Leopold realized this version in the 1990. But it was probably Strauss’s first intention, before Paul Sacher commissioned the larger version.
This and Paul Paray's Detroit Symphony version of Franck's Symphony in D Minor were played at maximum room volume for my dad on his deathbed.
+Wim Grundy I hope he was hard of hearing
Hinky: perhaps your whole family were congenitally hard of hearing
Hinkshit Your noises are little more than the abject commentaries of a puerile poseur. You have, apparently, missed your true calling as a bear-trainer or swine-herd. I have some Mistletoe, left over from Xmas, it's taped to the small of my back, please feel free to come over and put it to use....anytime....
Wow....you wordsmiths really GET IT ON....and with preternatural wit and elegance ("Mistletoe"...Who'd've thought?).....Now...TAKE IT OUTSIDE....DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE!
@@alexreik424 you are a poet
The best string piece ever composed in my opinion. Perfection of form, style, architecture, contrapunctum.
And also the last European classical work, the climax of a style that reaches its perfection.
Agreed
Beautiful beyond words! Such complexity yet simplicity at the same time
astonishing...now more than ever..
What an interesting work. Low strings playing on the edge of harmonic tonality. Extreme legato. Emotionally riveting. Reminds me in some ways of Mahler's unfinished 10th.
Beautiful work for this absolute masterpiece : the score is so important !
Thanks a lot
Such a powerful, emotion, tragical, piece. Thank you for sharing.
Wow... Glad I found this piece. Haunting.
Beautiful...
The harmony in this piece is like getting punched while having sex while burning while eating rose-flavoured chocolate while getting your heart ripped off your chest while kissing the most beautiful creature upon earth.
+Davide Mura off beat--but spot on musical analysis!!
The same could be said of Janacek's Intimate Letters. It's funny how such different music could fit that description.
Twice
Yes, you're right! It's so profoundly sad, complex, multi-layered: It's like driving a hearse to the wholesale liverwurst outlet when suddenly a hermaphrodite in a piano truck backs out of a crackhouse driveway and, as your shoes catch fire, pirouetting across Ricardo Montalbán Boulevard, slapping the truck driver six times in the loins with a Chattanooga road map, even though he was only humming "The Pussycat Song."
@@steveegallo3384 glad someone said it
“The Lord has rejected
all the warriors in my midst;
he has summoned an army against me
to crush my young men.
This is why I weep
and my eyes overflow with tears.
No one is near to comfort me,
no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
because the enemy has prevailed.”
Tief, verträumt, zeitlos.
This is the version I've been looking for the past year! Wow.
Many thanks for the score during the playing!
großartige Sendung, danke1
Glorious, otherworldly
I feel embraced by this piece. It’s so beautifully dense
Absolutely amazing. My new favorite work, for me, it's the height of human art. Everything before this leads here!
Extraordinary.
Cuando empecé a dejar los placeres banales y encontrarme conmigo mismo y saber en realidad quien era yo y que me gusta de este mundo. Por alguna extraña razón sentía como gustos totalmente desconocidos por mi, empezaban a llamarme más y más. Ahora estoy acá, con 26 años y sintiendo uno de los mejores placeres al escuchar esta exquisita pieza musical.
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Supongo que para renunciar a esos placeres antes debes excederte en tal cosa o al menos haber probado todo tipo de estos. ¿No? Me recuerda a las enseñanzas de Herman Hesse que trata en varios de sus libros.
@@sergiohman Desde mi experiencia, si. Primero tuve que perderme en esos "placeres" que la mayoría de la sociedad los asimila con la felicidad. No me arrepiento, pero no los repetiría. Estuve perdido nuevamente, pero esta vez por "amor", supongo que eso es la vida, estar luchando y experimentando diferentes placeres y experiencias, pero creo que lo importantes es nunca dejarnos perder y renunciar a nuestra naturaleza. Llevaba un año sin escuchar esta pieza. Gracias a tu comentario lo pude hacer, el libro que mencionas ya lo agregue a mi lista. pinta ser muy bueno.
¡Saludos!
@@elrold8259 De nada, amigo. Yo solo espero que algún día pueda vivir y encontrarme también conmigo mismo. Y sí, si lees a Hesse pienso que te identificarás demasiado, mis favoritos por cierto son Siddartha, Demian y Gertrude. ¡Saludos de vuelta y suerte!
OUTSTANDING
En mi andadura musical, Metamorphosen remueve lo más hondo. Siento en esta obra el vigor de cuanto hemos cegado y puja a modo del magma que bulle bajo el volcán en la imperiosa necesidad de emerger. Cuánto daría por saber que hay en mí algo de ese magma y resurgir en él, aun si fuera última emanación, abrasadora y fértil una vez fuera a la merced de líquenes, sazonada por cuanta ave viniera a asentarse para ser al fin nueva tierra y nuevo cobijo.
hermosas palabras
This is a very beautiful and rather complex work which unfolds slowly yet ineffably speaks of our strengths and weaknesses so succinctly.
Sublime!
mate,
your devotion is amazing, and this type of video is so illuminating.
thank you.
j.
The "somewhat flowing" section is so beautiful
I am thanking you almost 10 years in the future from your original upload for this lovely piece!
Wonderful! Saw the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform this piece today and it was excellent and moving.
Today I was listening to this remarkable composition -once again, while crossing my fingers and hoping for the best for (all) the people in Ukraine....
Sublime performance of a masterpiece.
Beautiful
A true inspiration
So deep
Yet so clear in direction
One of Strauss’s last works... perhaps his farewell to the world.
I take this to be his farewell to the German culture that he loved, destroyed by the cataclysmic nihilism of the Nazi party. His farewell to the world is surely the Vier Letzte Lieder. Utterly devastating either way.
I was listening to Strauss' "Im Abendrot" earlier today. If you do not already know it, look for the one with Jessye Norman.
@@vaclavmiller8032 Nihilism of Nationalism? How retarded
Astonishing beauty
Maravilhoso.
thanks for upload this masterpiese
Do you think Strauss had been listening to Verklarte Nacht? There's a family resemblance, although Strauss's textures are more relentlessly dense than Schoenberg's.
Seeing the score is a revelation- I hadn't realised just how close the music comes to being atonal. It's constantly shifting key, and the first twenty bars or so don't seem to settle in any key at all.
Does anyone know of any similar pieces to those two?
Esteban Abad Von Zemlinsky's second quartet is a close call to me. Very ultra-chromatic.
Esteban Abad - if u haven’t heard Beethoven quartet 14 that possesses a similar deep and rich riddle like quality of this masterwork. Schoenbergs gurre-lieder tho very long and different to the varklte nacht houses the same sort of indescribable genius that I’m sure u will die for. There is a rather chaotic anton bruckner quartet that If memory serves is in F which boasts a chaotic similarity to the two pieces. Tchaikovsky quartet 3 is a beautiful but twisted and dark work as well. It’s hard to compare anything to metamorphosen and varklate nacht because they’re so unusually genius and unique tho I’m sure somebody with a superior knowledge could conjure up more reminiscent pieces I tend to find this work reminds me of Bach’s compositional approach for some reason. That all being said if ur looking for something truly world destroying and ingenious I would recommend the liszt piano sonata in B minor, specifically Cziffras version. It is a sonata inside of another sonata! And carries a similar kind of compositional dark world light world theme to varklate nacht despite being a piano work. And if ur after a pure heart bleeding soul throbbing tear streamer then I recommend Rachmaninoff symphony 2 or perhaps his piano concerto 2. Good luck to u sir.
@@SmeagolTheBeagle thank you very much for your answer, some of those i already know, but i will take a look at the new ones
@@estebanabad2795 Franz Schmidt's music generally (including the symphonies and organ music), but especially the chamber works. Here is the Adagio from the Second String Quartet: czcams.com/video/VRqL2irrqOs/video.html
The string orchestra as an ensemble is simply not written for enough. Such gorgeous potential often overlooked-not here, of course, in the hands of Strauss. Sublime.
Thanks for the score.
Thanks for uploading. To refer to "Strauss' original septet version" is slightly midleading, however. I believe he began the piece for 11 solo strings, then shifted to 7, completing this version in short score (not unearthed until 1990!). A "realization" of the septet version has been published and recorded, but it must be stressed that the definitive version, and the only one Strauss actually authorized in his lifetime, is the familiar one for 23 strings.
25:53 is the saddest part of the piece. it sounds like despair
Very nice.
Il più bel brano per archi mai composto.
I love how all the soloists are playing rubato, it makes it sound so much more intense and emotional
I love how u have an ekko pfp
Masterpiece.
It’s the longest most beautiful chorale…
Beatiful
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Requiem for romanticism.
Requiem for Europe
und für Deutschland
Requiem for Europe boy, Europe is dead since 1945, specially Germany. Now degeneracy and absolute materialism reigns.
Younger sister of ‘Ein Deutsches Requiem’ Brahms, be like :
@@javiermedina5313 what do you mean?
Nesbi what marvellous création!! isnent'it
Masterpiece
Es una preciosidad esta obra, una belleza para mis oídos.
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This composition makes a lot of sense for those who lived in Germany in 1918 and 1945.
yeah, strauss of all ppl should be a voice of suffering during those years, right? i wonder what would schoenberg or even schulhoff said about that...
Woah oh my oh my oh my
I remember hearing this ( a long time ago now) introduced by Hugh Wheldon on 'Monitor' in a film about R.Strauss by Ken Russell.
O! yeth! this i`s beautiful- absolutely anything-
but my prof.spoke with a human voice It is the best instrument.
I think it is worth emphasizing that the work you are listening to is NOT the work represented in the score provided.
Amor a primera escucha.
EPIC
This opus the really presents the Zeitgeist of its time.
This piece is so obsessive. The climax at 19:05 its masterful. It's not marked but I like to see a hint of an allargando there.
You're welcome!