Review: A Big Box of Raff Symphonies

Joseph Joachim Raff, although largely forgotten now, was a major symphonic composer in the second half of the nineteenth century. He wrote eleven symphonies, including a "Four Seasons" quartet of them, and his most famous, No. 5 "Leonore," has never quite left the repertoire. This box of symphonies, overtures and suites on the Swiss Tudor label will appeal to all fans of romantic orchestral music.