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But from the audio recording it seems like one pilot is noticing them bering in the CUTOFF position, and asking why (and moving it back). If the switch was actually in RUN, but some other issue caused the signal to be sendt, the pilot would see it beeing in the RUN position, not CUTTOF.

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Are they looking at the physical switch or data about the state of the engine displayed in some other fashion?

This is very clearly EAFR data, so the logical/electrical switch state. Nothing about the mechanical state of the switches has been mentioned, except a picture that shows their final state to be in the RUN position (which makes sense given the relight procedure was ongoing).

From what I understand, the relight procedure involves cycling these back to CUTOFF and then to RUN anyway. So it is not clear if they were mechanically moved from RUN to CUTOFF preceding the loss of thrust, or cycled during relight.

Where can I listen to this recording?

You can't yet - what we have is this sentence from the report: "In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so."

It's not a direct quote or transcript, it's reported speech.

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