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mark@raff.org — 18 Feb 2013 09:00:00 GMT

New on 18 February 2013

New orchestral music CD from Chandos reviewed
The exciting new recording from Chandos of the Symphony No.2 and the four Preludes to Shakespeare Plays, played by L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conducted by Neeme Järvi is reviewed. The review is illustrated with streaming mp3 extracts. .

Raff's first opera described
Raff's first stage work, the four act grand opera König Alfred, is examined in depth in a new page in the Works in Detail section. A full synopsis of the plot, together with a streaming audio example of its music is included.

New Sterling CD of religious music reviewed
There is a review of the new CD from Sterling of Raff's religious choral music, featuring a major work for chorus and orchestra, his setting of De Profundis, together with the early Te Deum and six shorter a capella pieces. The review features streaming mp3 extracts from the CD.

Comic opera Dame Kobold described in detail
The three act comedy Dame Kobold, an adaptation of a famous Spanish farce, was Raff's last opera to be staged. A new page in the Works in Detail section charts its complicated plot and includes a streaming audio extract from its overture.

Playbills advertising Raff concerts added to the Gallery
A new page has been added to the Galleries section, which has good quality scans of ten fascinating playbills advertising concerts of Raff's music in Weimar and Leipzig in the years 1851-1883. Several are for the premiere performances of important works.

Recommended recordings updated
The recommended recordings pages for Symphonies and Vocal works have been updated.

Seven more Raff concerts
Details of seven new concerts in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, all featuring Raff's music, have been added to the Concert News page. Information about a further two concerts has been updated.

News of more Raff CDs
The CD News page has details of two more upcoming recordings of orchestral musk from Chandos and Sterling, together with details of the current new releases from each label.

Opera score available at IMSLP
IMSLP, the site for free downloadable PDF scans of Public Domain scores has added the manuscript of the full score of Raff's third opera, Die Parole, to its catalogue.

More piano scores published
The US music publisher Bisel Classics has recently published five new editions of Raff piano scores.

Another portrait of Raff
A newly found picture of Raff has been added to the Portraits page in Gallery section.

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Joachim Raff

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