Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen

As recently as twenty years ranking of composers ~ inner sanctum Beethoven Bach Wagner Schubert Mozart Haydn ~ still part of the music debate ~ Arrival of internet hasnt quelled discourse. music listology now all consuming pastime ~ Vivaldi ahead of Claudio Monteverdi How dare you! ~ OK~~ you see these lists are collective endeavours advancing pet composers even loopy choices As for Claudio Its the Shakespearean range~ Claudio we are not worthy ~ compared to Monteverdi ~Vivaldi's Four Seasons repetitive soft rock
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Some say paddies are chary of Brit music ~we know better . Smiley BBC One Show Hold on One Show preferable to ever so pleased Graham Norton to chorus of bubbly non existent jokes..
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A fetching aside some composers greatness declared upon arrival in town. Take a stab at which ones~ Karlheinz Stockhausen perhaps~ His magnum, opus? .Licht a 20th century Ring Like Gobbler in Extras I dont get it Lacking Wagnerian grandeur? momentum? Gruppen .though Stockhausens brass textures work a treat with Stan Kentons all white brass jazz ~ Have a go Ifcopod endeavour attempted fusion of Stockhausen and Stan word is it almost worked.
Space Oddity or Space Odyssey ~SNAP~Both .~ In late 1960s everything was Kubrick this and Kubrick that. one of cinemas visually inspired director greats. Metamorphosen happened upon by Ifcopod courtesy Clemens Krauss 1950s dim mono if affectionate account Present glorious Metamorphosen tailended by Beethoven quotation ever morphing string polyphonies Too long?. what do you expect? a moronic two minute sprinting rap This string music ~ the best Anyway the management is strapped for quality rappers Lady Marmalade Gitchi Gitchi ya ya da da ~ Since Busta Rhymes threw his rattle out of the cot the rapper is not too keen on big washes of strings . Metamorphosen and Schoenbergs Verklarte Nacht ~ twin peaks of late strings romanticism
Consider~ Verklarte Nacht once deemed opaque .
. Richard Strauss purveyor of garish if splendiferous decadence Salome Elektra ~ inter alia ~ soundcheck late Strauss inc Duet Concertino. Critics applauded his lubricious adroitness less convinced of his genius but late Metamorphosen his most deserving music ~ mournful ~ but noble ~universal a place on everyone's Desert Island . Get off the fence you dig Richard Strauss no? how about Dickie Strauss. Also Sprach Zarathustra a stunning opening to Kubricks Space Odyssey hasn't been bettered rendering redundant those delightful Planet B pots and pans 1950s Sci~ Fi movies .