RAFF Symphony No 5. Abends. Dame Kobold
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Composer or Director: (Joseph) Joachim Raff
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 05/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 81
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHSA5135
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Symphony No. 5 in E, 'Leonore' |
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Suisse Romande Orchestra |
Abends-Rhapsodie |
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Suisse Romande Orchestra |
Dame Kobold, Movement: Overture |
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Suisse Romande Orchestra |
Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), Movement: Prelude |
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Suisse Romande Orchestra |
(Die) Eifersüchtigen, Movement: Overture |
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Suisse Romande Orchestra |
King Alfred, Movement: Overture |
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer
(Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Neeme Järvi, Conductor Suisse Romande Orchestra |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
Happily, Järvi’s performance is an absolutely splendid one – both markedly more propulsive and, to my ears, more excitingly cogent than any other I have encountered, yet with no loss in terms of technical sophistication or affectionate glow. Playing of beguiling sheen also illuminates all five items with which the symphony has been most generously coupled. In addition to three operatic overtures, we are treated to the delectable Prelude from Raff’s epic oratorio based on the Grimms’ Dornröschen, and there’s also the pretty 1874 rhapsody Abends (a reworking of the fifth movement from the Piano Suite No 6 completed three years previously). Chandos’s non-interventionist SACD production (which hails from Geneva’s acoustically superb Victoria Hall) wraps you in a warm cocoon of sound. Collectors with a sweet tooth will find this irresistible.
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