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Furtwängler's "Metamorphosen"
Posted by Ralph Moore on April 5, 2021, 11:23 am
In his extensive review of Xavier Roth's new set of Strauss' "Sound Poems" - I am trying to help out here by rehabilitating the correctly translated name - Gwyn Parry-Jones mentions in passing that he is unsure whether the live 1947 recording of the above has been released on CD. I have it in a good transfer on the two CD set "Furtwängler - Maestro Classico vol 2" on the History label - along with, incidentally, his live recording of the Sinfonia domestica - a work of which I have a higher opinion than Gwyn! https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4pcAAOSw6ttcm4es/s-l300.jpg
The two performances he gave on 26th and 27th Oct. 1947 were the only ones he ever gave of Metamorphosen. (His October 1947 Berlin Tristan (Acts 2 & 3) comes from concerts around this time, too.) I don't have it to hand, but I imagine it was included in the complete DG boxed set - it was originally issued on a DG LP, after all. But, it has appeared on a SWF CD, issued in France, devoted to Furtwängler C20th recordings; Hindemith, Honegger and Furtwängler's own Te Deum and has also appeared on Music & Arts.
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In his extensive review of Xavier Roth's new set of Strauss' "Sound Poems" - I am trying to help out here by rehabilitating the correctly translated name - Gwyn Parry-Jones mentions in passing that he is unsure whether the live 1947 recording of the above has been released on CD. I have it in a good transfer on the two CD set "Furtwängler - Maestro Classico vol 2" on the History label - along with, incidentally, his live recording of the Sinfonia domestica - a work of which I have a higher opinion than Gwyn! https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4pcAAOSw6ttcm4es/s-l300.jpg