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L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi - Joachim Raff: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2014)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 3 Oct 2022 20:26:43

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi - Joachim Raff: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2014)

This is the second volume in a series from Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande dedicated to the orchestral music of the Swiss-born composer Joachim Raff. Although he was a highly popular and prolific composer during his day, his works quickly fell out of the repertoire after his death and are largely forgotten today. The idiomatic performances by Neeme Järvi and his Swiss orchestra in Volume 1, described as ‘peerless’ by BBC Music (*****), suggest that they are the perfect performers to reinvigorate interest in Raff’s music.

This second volume features the rhapsody, Abends, and a number of overtures and preludes alongside Symphony No. 5. Subtitled Lenore, the fifth is one of Raff’s so-called programme symphonies, the only one based on a precise extra-musical source: Gottfried August Bürger’s poetic ballad of the same name. The shorter works show very different sides of Raff’s compositional personality. The grandiose Overture to König Alfred reflects the heroic/romantic nature of the opera’s story while the overtures to the comic operas Dame Kobold and Die Eifersüchtigen are full of humour and high spirits. Dornröschen is an oratorio based on the famous story of Briar Rose, or The Sleeping Beauty, by the brothers Grimm and its prelude has been recorded here.

Volume 2 in Neeme Järvi’s Raff series for Chandos brings the Fifth (and best-known) of the prolific Swiss-German composer’s 11 symphonies. Finished in 1872, it was a hugely popular concert item in the years prior to the Great War and derives its programme from the poetic ballad ‘Lenore’, written a century earlier by Gottfried August Bürger (1747 94). It’s the finale, entitled ‘Reunion in Death’, that draws most heavily on the grisly narrative (a soldier returns to his lover after his death and whisks her off on horseback to the grave that will be their wedding bed) and leaves the listener in no doubt that Raff certainly knew how to handle the orchestra: the apotheosis even brings spooky premonitions of the close of Also sprach Zarathustra. Audiences of the period lapped up the third movement’s rousing march to war, which starts and finishes in the distance, but by far the most rewarding music is to be found in the thrusting opening Allegro – a really fine achievement, this, boasting some genuinely indelible melodies. The slow movement, too, is very touching (gorgeous woodwind-writing towards the close).

Happily, Järvi’s performance is an absolutely splendid one – both markedly more propulsive and, to my ears, more excitingly cogent than any other I have encountered, yet with no loss in terms of technical sophistication or affectionate glow. Playing of beguiling sheen also illuminates all five items with which the symphony has been most generously coupled. In addition to three operatic overtures, we are treated to the delectable Prelude from Raff’s epic oratorio based on the Grimms’ Dornröschen, and there’s also the pretty 1874 rhapsody Abends (a reworking of the fifth movement from the Piano Suite No 6 completed three years previously). Chandos’s non-interventionist SACD production (which hails from Geneva’s acoustically superb Victoria Hall) wraps you in a warm cocoon of sound. Collectors with a sweet tooth will find this irresistible.

Review by Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone

Joachim Raff at Allmusic
Joachim Raff at Wiki

Neeme Järvi at Allmusic
Neeme Järvi at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Overture to ‘Dame Kobold’, Op. 154 (1869) (06:55)
Comic Opera in Three Acts

02. Abends, Op. 163b (1874) (05:27)
Rhapsody. Orchestration by the composer of the fifth movement
from Piano Suite No. 6, Op. 163 (1871)

03. Overture to ‘König Alfred’, WoO 14 (1848–49) (13:51)
Grand Heroic Opera in Four Acts

04. Prelude to ‘Dornröschen’, WoO 19 (1855) (06:11)
Fairy Tale Epic in Four Parts

05. Overture to ‘Die Eifersüchtigen’, WoO 54 (1881 – 82) (08:34)
Comic Opera in Three Acts

Symphony No. 5 in E major, Op. 177 ‘Lenore’ (1872)
06. I. Allegro (10:33)
07. II. Andante quasi Larghetto (08:08)
08. III. Marsch-Tempo (09:17)
09. IV. Allegro (11:55)

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