Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen, für 23 Streicher, Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe (1973)

In Memoriam!

[@mannymanpagan5354]

its incredible that this picture has so much horror and distruction. But yet Mr strauss had this vision of beautiful music in his mind.it comes to show that there is always a light at the end of each dark tunnel. no matter how dark and hopeless the tunnel might be. bravo Mr Strauss. your music gave hope when hope was just but a unreachable dream

[@thobisimoloi5438]

words can not describe the beauty on this reading by kempe, truly this was the marriage that was done in heaven

[@christianguignard9980]

Quelle magnifique composition, quelle magnifique interprétation ! Ça c' est de la musique ...

[@user-yx5sj1vm4q]

I love this version.

[@irmavargas4786]

A partir de hoy soy una fan de la música clasica también... Eata obra es algo genial... ¿Tan insólito dentro de algo que se llama dizque «la música clásica//clasiquita»...:? Es algo maravilloso... y de veras genial...

[@shakingguy]

Magnifique version !

[@nosmoderni]

This version is so poignant. Thank you!!

[@daniellouet2922]

Une lamentation éternelle

[@invisiblesoloaqui66]

Pura tristeza. La muscia nos habla.
Fueron ataques contra la población civil, contra refugiados.... acabaron con una bella ciudad ...

[@ghassanalhammadi7690]

ever note in this music expresses a sense .

[@franciscoladrondeguevara4995]

You guys! Honestly, have a war debate in a war video.
This is music, whatever Strauss had in his mind this is as beautiful a piece of music as there will ever be. Leave the war out of it and just enjoy the music.

[@douglasmurphy9127]

the most astute comment there is also speculation mahler in his 9th foretold of coming tragedy but one thing stands clear these mighty 2 men of music have in the excellence of there art rendered many emotions ideas and things that transcend

[@joseto2006]

Of course this piece of music has to do with the war. Richard Strauss wrote with pain in his heart to see the horrors of the Second World War, it is a theme dedicated to the city of Munich after the fire of a beautiful theater.

[@franciscoladrondeguevara4995]

+José Luis Rivera Súlez That is a theory and not a fact.

[@ahoghill54]

I believe Strauss wrote this after hearing about the bombing of the Vienna State Opera building. I'm surprised the person who posted this beautiful version didn;t include a photo of the bombing of Vienna.

[@prototropo]

The insistence that human failures be banished from soiling human achievements, Francisco, is artificial and antiseptic.
How can we be transformed by the generative powers of art if we can’t discuss our political, social and selfish capacities for degradation and dehumanization? Or if we are forbidden to compare the revivifying spirit of art to the anthropocidal ruin of war?
Think of “Surrender at Breda,” or “Guernica,” or “Los desastres de la guerra.” These majestic, appalling and soul-searing masterpieces are silent in their presence before us, the lovers of art. But Velasquez, Picasso and Goya, the angels behind those artworks, were not silent in their condemnation-by way of their paintbrush-of barbaric aggression, corporal dismemberment and the homicidal blood-hunger of war.
We, the lovers of music and literature, of poetry and painting, could as likely as 18th-century peasants become victims of authoritarian lies, militaristic expansion, armed brutality and “pre-emptive regime change.” The rape, degradation and cultural decimation of god-forsaken nations has been common throughout history-perpetrated by deluded, god-arrogated nations, who pillage humanity’s art as eagerly as they slaughter humanity ‘s lives. Hitler forbade performances of the music of Mendelssohn, but he stole paintings by the truckload from Jewish families all over Europe.
How happy would Goya and Beethoven be if the “Third of May” and “Eroica” helped people understand our potential for both human magnanimity and malignant inhumanity because those works might remind us that the Napoleonic wars had obliterated, not liberated, so many lives around them. Sculptors, composers, playwrights, painters, novelists, photographers, dancers, singers, poets and filmmakers give us safe spaces and beautiful ideas on which to create a better, more peaceful, more creative world. But it won’t happen if we discourage others from talking about the stories told in pictures, or the events propelled through musical tensions and resolutions.
Only through the exchange of experience, thoughts and gestures can we share metamorphosis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_Tres_de_Mayo,_by_Francisco_de_Goya,_from_Prado_thin_black_margin.jpg

[@geoluce8744]

The picture shown here is Dresden in Feruary 1945
150.000 deads (civils) in 48 hours by the "Atlantic" air forces !
Wasn't it a crime against humanity ?!

[@TheStockwell]

Georges Anthiaume I respectfully agree with you - and disagree. Respectfully.
According to recent - and more reliable - assessments by a commission of independent historians requested by the Dresden city council, the death toll was between 22,700 and 25,000. The commission spent five years collecting and examining every available factual source.
The 150,000-200,000 numbers were the invention of Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry.
I'm more inclined to believe the 2010 numbers provided by the Dresden city council rather than 1945 numbers by Joseph Goebbels.
I agree that the incinerating of Dresden was a crime against humanity. So was the entire war. As to the claims I've read of the city having no military or industrial importance, there were 110 factories in Dresden supporting the war. Those factories made - among other things - aircraft components, anti-aircraft and field guns, and poison gas. An eyewitness described Dresden as "an armed camp: thousands of German troops, tanks and artillery and miles of freight cars loaded with supplies."
The fact remains: 25,000 deaths in one night is horrific. To me, what happened in Dresen is summed up by a single photograph: Richard Peter's "Allegorie der Güte."
Civilization wasn't enhanced by events leading up to, during, or after the war. At this point in time, it's easy to say the war ended. It's almost impossible to say anyone actually "won" it.

[@api9mm]

TheStockwell Actually the 25k figure is based on identified remains only. Hanns Voigt was in charge of the collection of remains as well as all missing persons lists at the time, where it was Voigt who originally estimated a figure of 135,000 killed.
Since the Dresden city council made their politically correct declaration for the lowest numbers they could possibly reach for, recent evidence revealed at the Public Records office in Windsor UK, of a secretly intercepted British Intelligence decoded transmission made by the police chief of Dresden dated March 24 1945, states that “eighty- to one-hundred thousand missing-person notifications are estimated to have been registered so far”.
This newly discovered missing persons report on top of a current and ongoing body count up to the time the report was made, could clearly indicate a death toll of well over 100,000. A number that substantiates a variety of estimates made by various authorities (including Voigt ) and witnesses involved in the collecting of bodies, registration, identification, burials and cremation, as well as the logging in of missing persons claims.

[@TheStockwell]

api9mm I'm not going to contradict you. As to "a secretly intercepted British Intelligence decoded transmission made by the police chief of Dresden dated March 24 1945," I can only assume the higher the numbers, the better it would look in terms of propaganda purposes. The numbers arrived at by the “Dresden Commission of Historians for the Ascertainment of the Number of Victims of the Air Raids on the City of Dresden on 13/14
February 1945” are the result of several YEARS of research, including "archival sources, many never previously consulted, on burial records and scientific findings -- including street-by-street archaeological investigations -- plus hundreds of eye-witness."
I apologise for the cutting and pasting of those two last statements, but the name of the commission alone is intimidatingly verbose. (!)
It's unlikely there will ever be anything resembling definitive numbers regarding the death tolls of World War II. If you have eighteen minutes to spare, I'd like to recommend you do a search for a video by Neil Halloran titled "The Fallen of World War II." Using what numbers seem most reliable, Mr. Halloran has created a sobering presentation of deaths by country, separating civilian and military deaths. To his credit, phrases along the line of "these number are still debated" are used judiciously.

[@api9mm]

TheStockwell Thank you. The 80K+ Missing persons transmission made by the police chief of Dresden dated March 24 1945 was never used for Propaganda, hence it was a secret transmission, not intended for public consumption, that was intercepted by British intelligence. Naturally of course, the British did not publicize it either.

[@robertbonter1190]

+Georges Anthiaume Damn, I hope so!

[@cesara.bautistaescobar3524]

No hay necesidad de estos comentarios. Richard Strauss compuso esta maravillosa obra en los días más sombríos de la segunda guerra mundial, expresando tristeza por la destrucción y degeneración de la cultura alemana por parte de los Nazis y su régimen de terror, y es también un tributo a las víctimas de la segunda guerra mundial, que también incluían a muchos alemanes, entre los que estuvieron miembros de su familia. Un comentario insensible considerando la historia detrás de la obra.

[@cesara.bautistaescobar3524]

@Unity SS New Reich Ss ¿Tiene usted algo qué contribuir? ¿Conoce usted la historia de esta obra o de la vida de Richard Strauss? Ilústreme si es tan amable.

[@cesara.bautistaescobar3524]

@Unity SS New Reich Ss Creo que usted está confundiendo a Richard Strauss con Johann Strauss II (que sí era de origen judío). Sin embargo, decir que Strauss era de "cierto origen racial" asume algo incorrecto ya que sólo hay una raza humana. Además, no entiendo por qué razón está buscando en lo que escribí lo que no está ahí, pero en fin...
Ahora, me dice que sería "perder el tiempo hablar con piedras", "sólo una voz que clama en el desierto", pero ¿por qué no lo intenta? Estoy dispuesto a decentemente escuchar lo que tenga que contribuir, y a corregir cualquier error que yo haya cometido. Es más, si puedo aprender algo, mejor. Eso sí, si se puede mantener el respeto.

[@roybatty8031]

@@cesara.bautistaescobar3524 no existe la "raza humana" existe la especie humana que se divide en razas o etnias y estas su vez en subrazas o subculturas.

[@cesara.bautistaescobar3524]

@@roybatty8031 www.google.com/amp/s/www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-explicacion-cientifica-no-existen-razas-humanas-201905231227_noticia_amp.html

[@musicodrome1731]

9:51 Simpson theme

[@1bateleur]

De rien! Je vous conseille l'extraordinaire version de Klemperer.

[@geraldsachs1325]

ah sim

[@rufocermoles8062]

Sí, in memoriam de los millones de muertos que provocó Alemania.

[@anitadiaz733]

La foto es de Dresden tonto

[@filipealexandresousa2087]

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[@jeffhoa3488]

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