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 ...

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.

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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 ...

In the 20th century, composers such as Ernest Bloch, Arthur Honegger, Rolf Liebermann and Frank Martin contributed significantly to putting Switzerland on the musical map. Prior to them, however, ...

The worldwide revival of interest in the music of Swiss born composer Joseph Joachim Raff has made considerable progress during the last years. In addition to the new Raff Complete Edition published ...

If the medical break currently being taken by Neeme Jarvi deprived his Scottish fans of a visit from the RSNO's conductor laureate at the weekend, the Estonian's absence is presumably even more keenly ...