The Swiss-born Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was hugely prolific and often claimed as an influence on composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Richard Strauss and Sibelius, yet his music is ...

German composer Joachim Raff (1822-82) is a footnote in musical history. But he made enough of an impression on Mendelssohn that the older man helped get his music published, and he also became a ...

Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony, Lenore, after a macabre 18th-century ballad about a dead soldier returning to lead his beloved to his grave, was written in 1872 and remained popular early i nto the ...

From Slane to Glastonbury, festival-goers are prepared to run the gauntlet of potentially inclement weather in pursuit of their musical pleasure. Not so, normally, those who go to concert halls.

Prolific Joachim Raff (1822-82) wrote his Symphony No 2 (of 11) in 1866, and it carries the opus number 140. He went on to complete nearly 300 works and was for a time one of the most frequently ...

Quartetto di Milano. J.J. Raff (born in Lachen, Sitzerland) is one of those composers who stand a little apart from the great masters. Dictionaries have treated him rather shabbily, and he is accused ...

Naxos turns 40 next year and who’d have guessed that they’d still be releasing world-premiere recordings by composers as notable as Joachim Raff? Raff’s experience in the opera house was rather less ...

Album Lyrique Tra Nguyen, Musician, Piano (Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer (5) Eglogues (Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Tra Nguyen, Musician, Piano Impromptu-Valse (Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Tra ...

Symphony No. 2 (Joseph) Joachim Raff, Composer Suisse Romande Orchestra Neeme Järvi, Conductor Overtures to Shakespeare plays, Movements: The Tempest Suisse Romande Orchestra (Joseph) Joachim Raff, ...