Raff: Benedetto Marcello recording

[edurban]

Premiere Opera is offering a recording of Raff's Benedetto Marcello, presumably from a German radio broadcast in 2002.  I, like many of us, have been intrigued by Raff's largely unappreciated efforts in the theatre...this recording will offer the chance to assess the verdict of history.  Recordings of the various overtures, etc. have not suggested to me that Raff was really a man with the theatre in his blood, as many composers who could never have duplicated his symphonic accomplishments unmistakably were (Giovanni Pacini, anyone?), but I look forward to discovering that I was wrong...

http://premiereopera.net/product/benedetto-marcello-by-raff-metzingen-2002/


David