RAFF; JOACHIM

Major Discoveries: Raff’s Second and Shakespeare Preludes

David Hurwitz

Joachim Raff’s symphonies have a reputation as being diffuse, bloated, […]

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Major Discoveries: Raff Chamber Works (No Kidding)

David Hurwitz

Raff’s Piano Quintet was considered by Hans von Bülow to

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Raff: Symphony No. 7

Victor Carr Jr

Though subtitled “In the Alps”, Joachim Raff’s 1875 Symphony No. 7 is not an explicitly programmatic work in the manner of Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony

Joachim Raff Symphony

Victor Carr Jr

In his massive, five-movement Symphony No. 1 “To the Fatherland” (1861), Joachim Raff (1822-82) set out to describe in music the character and high aspirations

Raffy boy Trios 1&4

Victor Carr Jr

Joachim Raff’s (1822-82) First and Fourth trios exhibit many of the same qualities found on the previous CPO disc of Nos. 2 & 3, reviewed

Raff Trios 2&3

Victor Carr Jr

Joachim Raff (1822-82) is little known today, but he enjoyed considerable success as a composer and teacher during his lifetime. Although he composed an appreciable