Composer: Joachim Raff
Performer: Basler Madrigalisten
Conductor: Raphael Immoos
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Catalogue: C5501
Release: 2022
Size: 958 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
10 Gesänge für gemischten Chor, Op. 198
01. No. 1, Frühlingsjubel
02. No. 2, Ave Maria
03. No. 3, Und dann nicht mehr
04. No. 4, Haidelieder I
05. No. 5, Haidelieder II
06. No. 6, Im Mondenglanz
07. No. 7, Stilles Glück
08. No. 8, Schneeglöckchen
09. No. 9, Maitag
10. No. 10, Nachtgruß vom Rhein
4 Marian Antiphones, WoO. 27
11. No. 1, Alma redemptoris mater
12. No. 2, Ave regina coelorum
13. No. 3, Regina coeli
14. No. 4, Salve Regina
15. Ave Maria, WoO. 33
Kyrie und Gloria, WoO. 31
16. I. Kyrie
17. II. Gloria
18. Pater noster, WoO. 32
It was typical of Joachim Raff, sometime assistant and orchestrator for Franz Liszt, that he completed eleven symphonies but failed to get any of them performed. If those symphonies didn’t quite establish themselves, then maybe his a capella choral music will. These works present Raff at his most diverse and imaginative best, proving him equally at home with sacred works and secular songs of awakening. The resultant musical style finds him drawing on the romantic vernacular of the time, whilst combining it with his very own take on the Cecilian Movement’s revival of Renaissance polyphony in a way rivaled only decades later by Hans Pfitzner.