 | We are repurposing the music from a Vinyl's Revenge post of February 12, 2019 as a new montage in our ongoing A la Carte series on For Your Listening Pleasure. Mobile followers can listen to the montage on our Pod-O-Matic Channel, and desktop users can simply use the embedded player found on this page. The following notes are an update. |
Today’s podcast builds on the Karajan recording of the
Alpine Symphony with another Strauss/Karajan recording, this one of the Metamorphosen
from 1969.
By 1944, Strauss was in poor health and needed to visit the
Swiss spa at Baden near Zürich. But he was unable to get the Nazi government's
permission to travel abroad. Karl Böhm, Paul Sacher and Willi Schuh came up
with a plan to get the travel permit: a commission from Sacher and invitation
to the premiere in Zurich. The commission was made in a letter by Böhm on
August 28, 1944, for a "suite for strings". Strauss replied that he
had been working for some time on an adagio for 11 strings; In fact, his early
work on Metamorphosen was for a septet (2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and a
bass). The starting date for the score is given as 13 March 1945, which suggests
that the destruction of the Vienna opera house the previous day gave Strauss
the impetus to finish the work and draw together his previous sketches in just
one month (finished on 12 April 1945).
Enjoy!
Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings, Op.142, TrV290
[NEW]
Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.64, TrV233
[VR-47]
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conducting
Internet
Archive - https://archive.org/details/alc-10-richard-strauss-a-la-carte
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