COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Urs Schneider
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Joseph Joachim Raff

Product: 747313549924

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Raff: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice, Urs Schneider

Joachim Raff’s symphonies present a synthesis of pure music and the programmatic elements of the neo-German school exemplified in the symphonic poems of Liszt. His eighth symphony from 1876, Frühlingsklänge, was followed in 1878 with his ninth, Im Sommer, forming a celebration of spring and summer that are part of a set that make up the four seasons. Both are written in an immediately attractive and approachable style, and scored for a relatively modest orchestra of Classical rather than Wagnerian dimensions.

Raff: Symphony No. 8 in A major, Op. 205 'Sounds of Spring'
Raff: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 208 'In Summer'