What is your favorite Strauss The Last Four Songs?

I do love this piece deeply. One night I can't stop myself playing it continuously (4 times).

Sugarbrie,

Please kindly provide more details in term of the difference(s) between Schwarzkopf under the directions of Szell and Ackerman which is available on CD format, EMI CDH 61001. I am always wondering which recording I should collect.

The other post-war composition moves me profoundly is Metamorphosen. I can still remember so vivid the performance by Dresden Staatskapelle under the direction of Sinopoli at Carnegie Hall a few years ago. Subtle and refine. It is all history now. Pity!

Happy Listening!

Otto

Sugarbrie / Newbee,

Please kindly advise your favorite performance(s) of Metamorphosen.

Thanks!

Otto

Newbee,

Truly intense music indeed. There is another recording by Klemperer. That album released by EMI contains Siegfried Idyll (very rare original orchestration version), Mahler Symphony No. 9 and Metamorphosen. As most of Klemperper's interpretations, it is "heavy".

Happy Listening!

Otto