Raaff: Melodies Unheard

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Release Date: 25th May 2018
Catalogue No: CC72762
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 77 minutes

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Raaff: Symphony No. 2 'Two Worlds Colliding'

Work length23:31

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Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Doelen Ensemble, Ràscher Saxophone Quartet
Emilio Pomárico

Track length7:45

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II.

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Transition / III.

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Raaff: Symphony No. 1 'Tanglewood Tales'

Work length20:42

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Doelen Ensemble, Ràscher Saxophone Quartet, Orchestre de Picardie
Arie van Beek

I. (Untangled Tales)

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II. (Untangled Tales)

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Coda

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Raaff: Symphony No. 4 'Melodies Unheard'

Work length32:59

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Sophia Burgos
Het Gelders Orkest, Doelen Ensemble, Ràscher Saxophone Quartet
Antonello Manacorda

I. How Still the Bells

Track length6:41

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II. Orchestral Interlude

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III. Softened By Time’s Consummate Plush

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IV. The Farthest Thunder

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V. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized

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VI. The Soul Selects Her Own Society

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VII. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere

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The Dutch composer Robin de Raaff has four symphonies to his name. Will De Raaff follow in the footsteps of tradition, or will he give the name, the form, a new meaning, a new direction?

His symphonies have little to do with the classical concept. Of course, his love for composing was partly derived from the symphonies of composers such as Brahms, Mahler, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and even Bernstein, but De Raaff is too much of a constructivist to write a symphony in the classical sense of the word. De Raaff became more and more convinced there was something to be gained in the concertante form, the orchestra and the soloist, the individual and the crowd. He shies away from prescribed forms and developments, a recapitulated theme followed by various movements with different characters. The symphony, the orchestral apparatus sounding together, telling its story for a period of at least 20 minutes, is what he took as his starting point. Working from there, this led to a reinterpretation of the symphonic form. De Raaff’s Second and Fourth Symphonies are the result of a reinterpretation of works for a soloist or soloist group with accompaniment. They are a revision of the material, reminiscent of the way in which Pierre Boulez let Incises for piano grow into Sur incises for ensemble and how Luciano Berio recomposed a number of his Sequenzas into Chemins.

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