Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen

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  • Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen.
    Antoni Wit, Conductor.
    Staatskapelle Weimar.
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  • @brianlocke568
    @brianlocke568 Год назад +37

    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

  • @EASYTIGER10
    @EASYTIGER10 8 лет назад +104

    This to me is the most extreme music of grief.

    • @davidfranklin272
      @davidfranklin272 3 года назад +4

      Absolutely. Grief.

    • @violoncello2189
      @violoncello2189 3 года назад +2

      Can’t agree more

    • @MrDSCH-ib2mx
      @MrDSCH-ib2mx 7 месяцев назад

      I would say that as well. But also to Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony and Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet.

    • @EASYTIGER10
      @EASYTIGER10 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@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.

    • @MrDSCH-ib2mx
      @MrDSCH-ib2mx 7 месяцев назад

      @@EASYTIGER10 That is true! I would say that the Pathetique Symphony and Metamorphosen shows different ways of showing emotion, sorrow, grief etc.

  • @joshscores3360
    @joshscores3360 3 года назад +91

    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)

    • @olegi.stepanov677
      @olegi.stepanov677 3 года назад +4

      There are definitely quotes from "Adajio Albinoni". Or rather the origins?

    • @theonetheycallkad6768
      @theonetheycallkad6768 2 года назад +3

      only about 25,000 died

    • @lachenmann
      @lachenmann 2 года назад +5

      @@theonetheycallkad6768 Not true, and it was an abominable crime.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 2 года назад

      True....Same with that Meistersinger 3rd Act Vorspiel......OMyGod!

    • @LJBSasha
      @LJBSasha Год назад

      @@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)...

  • @kyleclef
    @kyleclef 11 лет назад +34

    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.

    • @arthurlecomte8950
      @arthurlecomte8950 4 года назад +7

      there was also a certain man who came back in 19:29... who did also get certain people every time

    • @pedrofuster9161
      @pedrofuster9161 4 года назад

      @@arthurlecomte8950 The dow Jones just fell down to zero, and its gonna be a fine swell day

    • @rr7firefly
      @rr7firefly 2 года назад +2

      I envy people who have such a refined understanding of music's structure.

  • @MrMichaelvier
    @MrMichaelvier 4 года назад +6

    thanks for posting....always in tears when i hear this masterpiece...so beautiful.....fragile .....tragic.....fantastische Streicher ........und ein sehr einfühlsamer Dirigent....

  • @aritraahamed9907
    @aritraahamed9907 4 года назад +5

    Look, how deep and condensed this is! It will not give you even the break to feel your own fascination while listening it.

  • @davidemura4444
    @davidemura4444 9 лет назад +292

    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.

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 8 лет назад +5

      +Davide Mura off beat--but spot on musical analysis!!

    • @lukecash3500
      @lukecash3500 7 лет назад +8

      The same could be said of Janacek's Intimate Letters. It's funny how such different music could fit that description.

    • @ammalbhatia3944
      @ammalbhatia3944 7 лет назад +15

      Twice

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 7 лет назад +20

      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."

    • @tedfitz8824
      @tedfitz8824 Год назад

      @@steveegallo3384 glad someone said it

  • @raticida123456
    @raticida123456 9 лет назад +31

    Hear that melancholy and nostalgia after war

  • @SmeagolTheBeagle
    @SmeagolTheBeagle 6 лет назад +417

    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.

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 5 лет назад +3

      Yes

    • @vulcanstarlight
      @vulcanstarlight 5 лет назад +2

      Amen!!

    • @danal81
      @danal81 5 лет назад +8

      Or you can bring your earbuds and listen to it outside of your home

    • @ingjpoy
      @ingjpoy 4 года назад +1

      certainly

    • @ingjpoy
      @ingjpoy 4 года назад +1

      totally agree with u

  • @flylooper
    @flylooper 8 лет назад +2

    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.

  • @blastait
    @blastait 2 года назад +2

    I feel embraced by this piece. It’s so beautifully dense

  • @pietrogie505
    @pietrogie505 2 года назад +6

    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....

  • @djrbfmbfm-woa
    @djrbfmbfm-woa 12 лет назад +2

    mate,
    your devotion is amazing, and this type of video is so illuminating.
    thank you.
    j.

  • @edgimzewski8096
    @edgimzewski8096 8 месяцев назад

    Sublime performance of a masterpiece.

  • @pedroa.cantero9449
    @pedroa.cantero9449 10 лет назад +30

    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.

  • @AmericanIdiot2002
    @AmericanIdiot2002 6 лет назад

    The "somewhat flowing" section is so beautiful

  • @lukecash3500
    @lukecash3500 7 лет назад +1

    Always have to sub a channel that does videos which take this much work and provide us all with another marvelous service. Thanks Thomas ;) Support these channels, folks! Takes a couple of second to help spread culture and educational material.

  • @ruivog
    @ruivog 7 лет назад +2

    Maravilhoso.

  • @ThomasLigre
    @ThomasLigre  12 лет назад +4

    You're welcome!

  • @prodmarcogoat
    @prodmarcogoat 3 года назад +1

    Beatiful

  • @copricornus
    @copricornus 9 лет назад +2

    O! yeth! this i`s beautiful- absolutely anything-
    but my prof.spoke with a human voice It is the best instrument.

  • @philippwilkendorf
    @philippwilkendorf 8 лет назад +40

    Jesus im crying and having infinite placer at same time

    • @javiermedina5313
      @javiermedina5313 5 лет назад +3

      it's sad and happy it's all the things, it's me, it's you, it's the life

  • @Eden_Rubin_Music
    @Eden_Rubin_Music 4 года назад +1

    Amazing piece, the top of harmony and counterpoint he reached throughout his life as a composer, and so emotional, can leave you with tears and happiness at the same time, the themes go so well together and the quatation of Beethoven 2nd mov. from his Eroica 3rd symphony is brilliant. I can feel how he saw germany falls apart and being destroyed, he could fully understand the pain of the ruins of this amazing country with it's amazing culture being destroyed because of the Nazi regime, even though he supposedly collaborated with them, but deep inside he knew that that's will ruin germany at the end. And the quatation of Beethoven while writing "in memoriam to a great man" was not meant to be for hitler, but for Beethoven, because he knew that he was the great spirit of Germany classical music culture, and the believe in democracy that Beethoven held throughout his life and believing in freedom and justice, that's the true essence of this piece. I bet he would be happy to live a little bit longer to see Germany being wiped out of the Nazi regime and being liberated and becomes a democracy. Long live Strauss!

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse 2 года назад

    Les chefs d'oeuvre ne sont pas fait pour éblouir.. Ils sont faits pour persuader, pour convaincre, pour entrer en nous par les pores !

  • @19BenZ57
    @19BenZ57 8 лет назад +5

    from PERSIA with Passion

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 8 лет назад

      What reminds you of Persia?

    • @19BenZ57
      @19BenZ57 8 лет назад

      I'm Persian and none Iranians should call Iran PERSIA and Iranians Persians

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 8 лет назад

      Okay, then, AGREED, my Persian friend! So, to get back on-message, Are you saying that Strauss is Persian....but certainly NOT Iranian?

    • @19BenZ57
      @19BenZ57 8 лет назад

      of course not

    • @mediolanumhibernicus3353
      @mediolanumhibernicus3353 4 года назад

      Check out Fauré's lovely song 'la rose de Ispahan '.

  • @andrewohler3198
    @andrewohler3198 5 лет назад +2

    Can someone explain the relation between this piece and Dimitri Shostakavich's Quartet no.8? I read somewhere they are somehow related???

  • @srothbardt
    @srothbardt 7 лет назад +8

    I think I read this was inspired by the 2n mvt of Beethoven's "Eroica."

    • @ranwanguva
      @ranwanguva 7 лет назад

      srothbardt I read something like that too~

    • @Quotenwagnerianer
      @Quotenwagnerianer 7 лет назад +18

      Not only inspired. The metamorphisis we hear here is the Beethoven Funeral March theme itself. He reveals this close to the end: 27:00
      Marked in the score: In Memoriam.

  • @TeoLizarraldeOliver
    @TeoLizarraldeOliver 7 лет назад +1

    So beautfull! Any chance of having the PDF for the piece? Or a link to buy it?

  • @t.h.rogerselementaryschool9079
    @t.h.rogerselementaryschool9079 2 года назад +1

    @20:09 breaks me every time!

  • @davidrehak3539
    @davidrehak3539 4 года назад

    Richard Strauss:Metamórfózisok
    Weimari Állami Zenekar
    Vezényel:Antoni Wit

  • @LiliyaUgay
    @LiliyaUgay 8 лет назад +5

    Did he also quote Beethoven Adagio arioso mov. from piano Sonata op. 110?

    • @rudigerk
      @rudigerk 7 лет назад +1

      Yes

    • @lxr0913
      @lxr0913 7 лет назад +3

      where? could you please point it out for me?

    • @philipkuttner7945
      @philipkuttner7945 4 года назад

      I think he was quoting the third and fourth measure of the Marcia funebre from the Eroca symphony, but you've made me realize the two are very similar. Must think about that when I play op.110.

    • @zalba5710
      @zalba5710 Год назад

      There is also a lot of Tristan and a bit of Tannhäuser in there. And FroSch.

  • @jbowers56
    @jbowers56 11 лет назад +1

    I reckon it sounds like a C minor chord. Odd that this score depicts something else. Would have been a really interesting sound to put that E minor chord there.

  • @joegoetz2024
    @joegoetz2024 9 лет назад +1

    How does the violin play those F#'s and F's below middle C?

    • @musicamaxima
      @musicamaxima 9 лет назад +9

      +Joe Goetz It doesn't--the 'cello doubles the line. It's there to mark the phrase for the players

  • @パチュリーらて
    @パチュリーらて 10 лет назад +1

    how many thema in this Mov?

  • @kimjeongyeon5640
    @kimjeongyeon5640 5 лет назад +1

    I think the audio is 23 string version

  • @김시은-h3g
    @김시은-h3g 2 года назад +3

    17:04

  • @estebanabad2795
    @estebanabad2795 4 года назад +1

    12:39 sooool beautiful

  • @LouisAFalbo
    @LouisAFalbo 11 лет назад +2

    tune the G string a half step down.

  • @gennarodonnarumma3756
    @gennarodonnarumma3756 9 лет назад +34

    Strauss = orgasmi multipli

  • @Ivan_1791
    @Ivan_1791 4 года назад

    I don't get the work of this guy (In this piece I only get the climax). I don't get what makes Elektra good for example. Edit: (Nevermind, I'm starting to understand it)

  • @johnappleseed8369
    @johnappleseed8369 8 лет назад +22

    So Mahlerian, really Mahlerian. Not a bad thing though

  • @imo_kempi
    @imo_kempi 2 года назад

    7:00
    12:00

  • @KaraCamilleDelonas
    @KaraCamilleDelonas 10 лет назад +1

    Just posted a very recent live performance of this piece. Please check it out. It would mean so much

  • @johnwalzer9187
    @johnwalzer9187 Год назад +21

    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.

  • @josealejandrogonzalez9038
    @josealejandrogonzalez9038 6 лет назад

    25:03

  • @rochelle4133
    @rochelle4133 5 лет назад +49

    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

  • @davidecarlassara8525
    @davidecarlassara8525 4 года назад +89

    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.

    • @Ivan_1791
      @Ivan_1791 3 года назад +6

      You are a pretty sensible person then.

    • @marioroveda5481
      @marioroveda5481 2 года назад +10

      It "metamorphoed" your life

    • @rr7firefly
      @rr7firefly 2 года назад +8

      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.

  • @bensladden3542
    @bensladden3542 8 лет назад +65

    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.

    • @flyingmintbunnyouo9407
      @flyingmintbunnyouo9407 6 лет назад +9

      Probably one of the jarring and despairing pieces of literature I have experienced thus far, it will forever be my favourite.

    • @jodikirsh
      @jodikirsh 2 года назад

      @@flyingmintbunnyouo9407 What's the book?

    • @firoza8994
      @firoza8994 2 года назад +3

      @@jodikirsh Kafka's Metamorphoses

  • @kevinbeck8836
    @kevinbeck8836 5 лет назад +33

    "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

    • @lukashf8440
      @lukashf8440 5 лет назад +9

      it is Goethe

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 5 лет назад +1

      Lovely

    • @peterb3181
      @peterb3181 Год назад +1

      That was very enlightening. An insight into Strauss' own thoughts. Thank you for sharing.

  • @GBN_01
    @GBN_01 11 лет назад +69

    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!

    • @maxclavenna4495
      @maxclavenna4495 4 года назад +1

      I didn't know about a septet version ; is it original from the author? Thanks

    • @GBN_01
      @GBN_01 4 года назад +1

      @@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

    • @maxclavenna4495
      @maxclavenna4495 4 года назад +1

      @@GBN_01 Thank You very much

    • @etiennetavitian3361
      @etiennetavitian3361 4 года назад +6

      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.

  • @jimparkin2345
    @jimparkin2345 Год назад +34

    No one scores the death of Western civilization quite like Richard Strauss.

    • @AhrkFinTey
      @AhrkFinTey Месяц назад

      ?

    • @jimparkin2345
      @jimparkin2345 Месяц назад

      @@AhrkFinTey Strauss composed this piece after the Third Reich bombed the Vienna opera house to inaugurate a new Nazi culture for Germans. In this way, Metamorphosen seems especially appropriate while similar rampant and deliberate cultural demolition takes place all over the waning modern West right now.

  • @jonnsmusich
    @jonnsmusich 11 лет назад +37

    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

  • @jusepe456
    @jusepe456 6 лет назад +23

    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

  • @arthurlecomte8950
    @arthurlecomte8950 4 года назад +90

    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.

    • @maxxiejohn2263
      @maxxiejohn2263 4 года назад +2

      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.

    • @Joshy...
      @Joshy... 4 года назад +1

      He worked for the Nazi's too his job was to suppress any music coming from non-aryans

    • @mediolanumhibernicus3353
      @mediolanumhibernicus3353 4 года назад +1

      Beautifully written comment. Thank you!

    • @GreenTeaViewer
      @GreenTeaViewer 4 года назад +2

      Well, yes, but it was WW1 that shattered Europe and the narrative of progress once and for all.

    • @Dikvanluik2033XL7HS
      @Dikvanluik2033XL7HS 4 года назад

      Arthur Lecomte very beautiful writing, thank you Arthur.

  • @miguelm5764
    @miguelm5764 7 лет назад +190

    Requiem for romanticism.

    • @arthurlecomte8950
      @arthurlecomte8950 7 лет назад +42

      Requiem for Europe

    • @didierschein8515
      @didierschein8515 6 лет назад +22

      und für Deutschland

    • @javiermedina5313
      @javiermedina5313 5 лет назад +19

      Requiem for Europe boy, Europe is dead since 1945, specially Germany. Now degeneracy and absolute materialism reigns.

    • @thijmenkrijgsman2417
      @thijmenkrijgsman2417 5 лет назад +1

      Younger sister of ‘Ein Deutsches Requiem’ Brahms, be like :

    • @IgnacioClerici-mp5cy
      @IgnacioClerici-mp5cy 3 года назад

      @@javiermedina5313 what do you mean?

  • @coolmuso6108
    @coolmuso6108 Год назад +9

    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.

  • @MrPSaun
    @MrPSaun 3 года назад +13

    My God...
    What a phenomenal piece of music!
    How have I never heard this before!

  • @WimGrundy
    @WimGrundy 9 лет назад +37

    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.

    • @alexreik424
      @alexreik424 8 лет назад +1

      +Wim Grundy I hope he was hard of hearing

    • @alexreik424
      @alexreik424 7 лет назад +1

      Hinky: perhaps your whole family were congenitally hard of hearing

    • @alexreik424
      @alexreik424 7 лет назад

      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....

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 7 лет назад

      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!

    • @bronermccoy5103
      @bronermccoy5103 4 года назад

      @@alexreik424 you are a poet

  • @jwalts37
    @jwalts37 10 лет назад +39

    that chord around 0:32-0:33 completely overwhelmed me.

    • @keithruddell1800
      @keithruddell1800 9 лет назад +2

      absolutely beautiful i had to grab my bass and try some voicings of it. F-7(9)/C

    • @futuropasado
      @futuropasado 8 лет назад

      what chord is it? wow

    • @futuropasado
      @futuropasado 8 лет назад

      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?¿

    • @jasondonald9830
      @jasondonald9830 7 лет назад

      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.

    • @jasondonald9830
      @jasondonald9830 7 лет назад

      b3 and b7 I meant to say...

  • @fatmadridibenaissa3513
    @fatmadridibenaissa3513 8 лет назад +77

    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!

  • @windstorm1000
    @windstorm1000 8 лет назад +18

    Strauss wrote this masterwork in part as a commission but also as homage to a Europe that was no more--

    • @TenorCantusFirmus
      @TenorCantusFirmus 6 лет назад +6

      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" ;( ;( ...

  • @simonkawasaki4229
    @simonkawasaki4229 4 года назад +18

    One of Strauss’s last works... perhaps his farewell to the world.

    • @vaclavmiller8032
      @vaclavmiller8032 3 года назад +10

      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.

    • @rr7firefly
      @rr7firefly 2 года назад

      I was listening to Strauss' "Im Abendrot" earlier today. If you do not already know it, look for the one with Jessye Norman.

    • @bayerischemotorenwerke5252
      @bayerischemotorenwerke5252 Год назад

      @@vaclavmiller8032 Nihilism of Nationalism? How retarded

  • @496emc2
    @496emc2 2 года назад +3

    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。

  • @clydeblair9622
    @clydeblair9622 4 месяца назад +2

    "The most terrible period of human history is at an end, the twelve year reign of bestiality, ignorance and anti-culture under the greatest criminals, during which Germany's 2,000 years of cultural evolution met its doom." Composer Richard Strauss

  • @garyralph9749
    @garyralph9749 Год назад +3

    I think it is worth emphasizing that the work you are listening to is NOT the work represented in the score provided.

  • @damienheemskerk
    @damienheemskerk 3 года назад +16

    The passage at 22:35 gets me every time, so heartbreaking

    • @Ivan_1791
      @Ivan_1791 2 года назад +1

      Sounds like people crying for their lives.

  • @futuropasado
    @futuropasado 8 лет назад +76

    This art piece is so beautiful... one of the most sincere and purest expressions of the soul...

    • @javiermedina5313
      @javiermedina5313 5 лет назад +8

      authentic music, not prefabricated, not materialistic

  • @UaM17
    @UaM17 5 лет назад +13

    Since around 40 years this music haunt my soul, i have no words to say Why, still at this time...

  • @emilebensdorp1802
    @emilebensdorp1802 9 лет назад +18

    probably the best ever written.

  • @docbailey3265
    @docbailey3265 Год назад +3

    Is this the composer who said he was not a first class composer but he was a first rate second class composer, or something like that? If he said that, he was wrong. This is first class stuff.

  • @CharlesM1992
    @CharlesM1992 9 лет назад +22

    Probably my favorite piece of music. Stunning.

    • @rr7firefly
      @rr7firefly 2 года назад +1

      That is saying quite a bit. You have extremely refined musical appreciation.

    • @94alhf
      @94alhf 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@rr7fireflythank you

  • @ChrisBreemer
    @ChrisBreemer 3 года назад +9

    One of the most beautiful, skillful, and touching pieces ever 💖

  • @derekrawlins7267
    @derekrawlins7267 12 лет назад +97

    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.

    • @estebanabad2795
      @estebanabad2795 4 года назад +7

      Does anyone know of any similar pieces to those two?

    • @matiasnorenamuriel7069
      @matiasnorenamuriel7069 4 года назад +7

      Esteban Abad Von Zemlinsky's second quartet is a close call to me. Very ultra-chromatic.

    • @SmeagolTheBeagle
      @SmeagolTheBeagle 4 года назад +9

      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.

    • @estebanabad2795
      @estebanabad2795 4 года назад +3

      @@SmeagolTheBeagle thank you very much for your answer, some of those i already know, but i will take a look at the new ones

    • @Khayyam-vg9fw
      @Khayyam-vg9fw 4 года назад +5

      @@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: ruclips.net/video/VRqL2irrqOs/видео.html

  • @chrisfusion6945
    @chrisfusion6945 3 года назад +4

    I might be shunned for saying this, but this reminds me alot of a certain piece from a video game.
    Eryth Sea (night) - Xenoblade Chronilces
    Several parts are very similar, especially the into.

  • @ottavva
    @ottavva 8 лет назад +9

    '''genial'' zu sagen wäre allerdings zu wenig ...
    mehr gibt es auch nicht ...

  • @ThomasTJDavis
    @ThomasTJDavis 10 лет назад +14

    Dang! That is such an incredible sound!

  • @3gtheepic
    @3gtheepic 6 месяцев назад +2

    25:53 is the saddest part of the piece. it sounds like despair

  • @Trombosilbo
    @Trombosilbo 8 месяцев назад +1

    Strauss ruined the great idea of the beggining, he just was unable to develop the piece properly .. Sorry to say it.

    • @wordcel
      @wordcel 2 месяца назад

      I see what you are saying, i don’t quite share your perspective but I do think the beginning five or so minutes is the most moving part

  • @sethdavid7476
    @sethdavid7476 7 лет назад +12

    I can't believe I've never heard this piece before

  • @SEBANOWITZ
    @SEBANOWITZ 10 лет назад +6

    Harmonies très proches de Capriccio, l'instabilité tonale souligne l'ambiance sombre, la dépression méditative.

  • @treesny
    @treesny 11 лет назад +5

    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.

  • @elrold8259
    @elrold8259 3 года назад +8

    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.

    • @thebestofrockandworldmusic3393
      @thebestofrockandworldmusic3393 2 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/-O-F4fzAups/видео.html

    • @sergiohman
      @sergiohman 6 месяцев назад +1

      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.

    • @elrold8259
      @elrold8259 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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!

    • @sergiohman
      @sergiohman 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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!

  • @ethansaltmere
    @ethansaltmere 3 года назад +10

    cadence in bar 7-8 is just so heartbreaking. In this rendition the opening is too slow though - this is NOT a funeral march but rather a exploratory and complex symphonic work that does not reveal its true sinister nature until the very final few bars.

  • @123must
    @123must 11 лет назад +9

    Beautiful work for this absolute masterpiece : the score is so important !
    Thanks a lot

  • @음악감상용-r5w
    @음악감상용-r5w 2 года назад +3

    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

  • @Ivan_1791
    @Ivan_1791 3 года назад +3

    I'm so incredibly happy this channel wasn't erased after all this copyright madness.

  • @shockwave2291
    @shockwave2291 5 лет назад +5

    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.

  • @gabrielespampinato9234
    @gabrielespampinato9234 4 года назад +24

    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.

  • @grundvater
    @grundvater Год назад +2

    Echt cooler Kanal. Gut gemacht und perfekt zum Lernen.

  • @ggn1234
    @ggn1234 10 лет назад +5

    Solo strings? Sounds like some are getting a bit of extra-curricular help.

    • @piotrgajewski1050
      @piotrgajewski1050 10 лет назад +12

      The version performed is the original for 23 solo strings. The score displayed is an arrangement for 7 strings.

  • @tailleferrestan
    @tailleferrestan 3 года назад +3

    Absolutely amazing. My new favorite work, for me, it's the height of human art. Everything before this leads here!

  • @예신-n2s
    @예신-n2s Год назад +1

    9:17

  • @예신-n2s
    @예신-n2s Год назад +1

    7:10

  • @malcolmx1932
    @malcolmx1932 3 года назад +7

    This composition makes a lot of sense for those who lived in Germany in 1918 and 1945.

    • @JafuetTheSame
      @JafuetTheSame 3 года назад +2

      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...

  • @mingmonk
    @mingmonk Год назад +2

    It’s the longest most beautiful chorale…

  • @ThomasF2711
    @ThomasF2711 11 лет назад +8

    Tief, verträumt, zeitlos.

  • @helenamarie4337
    @helenamarie4337 5 лет назад +6

    the counterpoint at times is stunning

  • @jaredschwartz4745
    @jaredschwartz4745 9 лет назад +9

    7:45

  • @BellXllebMusic
    @BellXllebMusic 3 года назад +1

    I can hear how Knights of the Old Republic 2 soundtrack took influence from this

  • @ANFeuerstahl
    @ANFeuerstahl 8 лет назад +13

    It's very dangerous for me to listen to Metamorphosen without being under the protective influence of lithium.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 8 лет назад +3

      I've found it helpful, then, to also steer clear of any chamber music by Vaynberg....in which case NEVER break your Prozacs in half.....