Radio Kamer Filharmonie / Orchestre de Picardie / Het Gelders Orkest / Robin de Raaff
Melodies Unheard
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917276220
- Catalog number CC 72762
- Release date 04 May 2018
About the album
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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11Symphony No. 2 ?Two Worlds Colliding? for saxophone quartet and orchestra Movement I
07:45 -
12Symphony No. 2 ?Two Worlds Colliding? for saxophone quartet and orchestra Movement II
08:15 -
13Symphony No. 2 ?Two Worlds Colliding? for saxophone quartet and orchestra Transition-Movement III
07:31 -
14Symphony No. 1 ?Tanglewood Tales? for large orchestra Movement I (Untangled Tales)
08:03 -
15Symphony No. 1 ?Tanglewood Tales? for large orchestra Movement II (Untangled Tales)
09:01 -
16Symphony No. 1 ?Tanglewood Tales? for large orchestra Coda
03:38 -
17Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson I. How Still the Bells
06:41 -
18Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson II. Orchestral Interlude
04:47 -
19Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson III. Softened By Time?s Consummate Plush
03:48 -
110Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson IV. The Farthest Thunder
04:42 -
111Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson V. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
03:46 -
112Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson VI. The Soul Selects Her Own Society
02:23 -
113Symphony No. 4 ?Melodies Unheard? a symphony of songs for soprano (or mezzo) and orchestra on poems by Emily Dickinson VII. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
06:52