Released more than a decade after it was recorded, one has to wonder what held up the issue of Werner Andreas Albert and the Philharmonia Hungarica's recording of Joachim Raff's Symphony No. 7 in B flat major, "In den Alpen," Op. 201, and Jubelouverture, Op. 103. It can't be the quality of the sound. CPO's recording is as clear and round and warm as its recordings have always been. It can't be the quality of the performance. The Philharmonia Hungarica has improved immeasurably in the decades since it formed and is now ...
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Released more than a decade after it was recorded, one has to wonder what held up the issue of Werner Andreas Albert and the Philharmonia Hungarica's recording of Joachim Raff's Symphony No. 7 in B flat major, "In den Alpen," Op. 201, and Jubelouverture, Op. 103. It can't be the quality of the sound. CPO's recording is as clear and round and warm as its recordings have always been. It can't be the quality of the performance. The Philharmonia Hungarica has improved immeasurably in the decades since it formed and is now firmly in ranks of the better provincial European orchestras and Werner Andreas Albert is as he has always been, a doughty and durable champion of repertoire that almost nobody has ever heard before. It must be the repertoire. Joachim Raff was the fellow who orchestrated some of Liszt's earlier symphonic poems and he may have been the greatest Swiss composer of the nineteenth century, but his Symphony No. 7, like the six that proceeded it and the four that followed it, is deadly dull and...
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