Raff - Chamber Music Vol.2: String Quartets 5 & 7 | MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm) MDG3072255

Raff - Chamber Music Vol.2: String Quartets 5 & 7

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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)

Cat No: MDG3072255

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd September 2022

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To mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, the renowned Leipzig String Quartet presents a world-premiere recording of the Fifth String Quartet from Joachim Raff's much under-appreciated chamber music.

In addition, the four musicians present the Quartet, op.192 no.2, with the epithet "Die schöne Müllerin".

Unlike Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, there seems to be no tragic ending in Raff's wanderer's fate, but a better one. Here, too, the young man falls in love with the miller's daughter, here, too, there is - as the title of the fourth movement reveals - "unrest", but after an "explanation" the work ends in the snappy "Polterabend" (wedding-eve party). Why Raff did not then also compose a wedding remains his secret...

While the Schöne Müllerin is laid out like a suite, the Fifth String Quartet follows the classical form. Raff had already broken away from Liszt's influence, and so the work is characterised by the extremely skilful treatment of the often catchy motifs. The fast second movement is remarkable, its familiar variations breathing Mendelssohnian esprit.

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