Bowled over by Raff's "Welt-Ende"

Started by Wheesht, Saturday 10 November 2012, 18:47

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Wheesht

Last night I attended a concert in Bern: The 'Gemischte Chor Bern' and the Sinfonieorchester Ausserschwyz performed Schumann's Requiem and the Schicksalslied by Brahms, plus - and this was my main reason for going -  the Judgement ('Abtheilung II - Gericht')  from Raff's 'Welt-Ende', this was a Swiss premiere. I was absolutely bowled over by Raff's music, especially the orchestral intermezzi with their wealth of contrasts. As often happens, I thought this was music that many more people would enjoy and wondered how one might get more of them to attend such concerts and encourage unadventurous concert organisers to take more risks in trying to educate their (potential) audiences to like unknown music. I would love to hear news of a forthcoming recording or at least a complete performance...

Details of the concert, which will be repeated tomorrow, Sunday 11 November, in Raff's birth place, Lachen, can be found here:
http://www.joachim-raff.ch/004/default.nsf/Aktuell?OpenFrameSet
and here:
http://www.sinfonieorchester-ausserschwyz.ch/