Strauss: Metamorphosen / Tod und Verklarung (Metamorphoses / Death and Transfiguration)
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Composer: Richard StraussConductor: Herbert Von Karajan
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1983-11-01
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Metamorphoses - BPO/Herbert Von Karajan
- Death And Transfiguration, Op.24 - BPO/Herbert Von Karajan
Music reviews of Strauss: Metamorphosen / Tod und Verklarung (Metamorphoses / Death and Transfiguration)
Music Review: Very Famous Strauss Metamophosen plus Death and Transfiguration
Rating: 5 Stars
This is one of Herbert von Karajan's greatest recordings from his last decade, the 1980's. This album won the Gramophone orchestral record of the year award and it has always received the coveted Penguin Guide "Rosette Award" in every edition of that publication. I want to state first of all that this performance of Death and Transfiguration has been remastered and re-released on a different CD. It was re-released on Karajan Gold, catalog number 439 039-2, coupled with Karajan's digital Ein Heldenleben.
That Karajan Gold disc has much better sound in Death and Transfiguration than the CD you are looking at here. Please if you want to hear Karajan's greatest Death and Transfiguration, ( yes this one from the 1980's ), go buy that Karajan Gold disc with it's great sound. However, the Metamorphosen on this CD, to the best of my knowledge, has never been remastered, it's always been available here. The sound is fine, early digital, there is no glassiness or digital edge but there is also an overriding smoothness in texture. I know that this is primarily a Karajan attribute and not just the recording's fault but if DG ever decides to remaster this Metamophosen, they are really going to have a winner on their hands. Basically the sound is a bit too soft-grained for my liking.
The performance itself is masterful, in a category of it's own, this Metamorphosen is Karajan's greatest and the only competition I have ever found for it is Furtwangler's recording from 1947. Furtwangler is faster than Karajan but Karajan compensates with just as much emotion and utterly stunning string virtuosity which has never been surpassed. Get Furtwangler and Karajan, you won't regret it, they are the pinnacle in the recorded history of this Strauss masterpiece. Karajan's Death and Transfiguration is magnificient too, possibly the best ever, just do yourself a favor and get it on the remastered Karajan Gold CD if you want to hear Karajan's interpretation given full justice by great engineering.
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