JOACHIM RAFF (1822-1882)-WORKS FOR CHOIR, PIANO & ORCHESTRA
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DIE TAGESZIETEN, OP. 209; MOREGNLIED, OP. 186A; EINER ENTSCHLAFENEN, OP. 186B; DIE STERNE, WOO 53 Norrlands Opera Symphony Orchestra; Andrea Quinn, conductor Tra Nguyen, piano Given the rather spotty evidence, one might conclude that Raff was not a choral composer per se. As with most all thisng Raffian, however,this is an illusion. Raff required an unusual challenge to set his creative juices flowing. The last 3 works are nothing if not unconventional solutions without precedent, and the results are wholly satisfying in form and content, and utterly original in their manner of construction and presentation. As with Die Tageszeitn, Raff’s compositional interests were frequently at odds with the conventions of the day. The shifting stylistic perspectives of his music, often within the same work, tended to drive his critics to condemn him as fundamentally heterodox. Raff ignored his critics, while a the same time producing a body of literature whose objectivism predicted many of the new directions of 20th Century composition.