Raff/ Mannheim String Quartet - String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 & 4 & 8Contemporaries of Joachim Raff (1822 82) valued him as an expert in the history of music and art and as a composer who knew how to produce richly colored instrumentations. Following releases of some of his symphonies and piano trios, cpo now turns to the composer's Second, Third, Fourth and Eighth String Quartets. In his middle quartets the classicistic control of his music from those years makes itself manifest, i. e., interpretive markings in

Jeremy Warmsley and shared the stage with the likes of Martha Wainwright

and Cloud Slant (1968) -not just musical depictions of them but also the composer's reactions to their artistic sweep and power

Starvation - Johnny Kay

The illuminating liner notes are penned by Beethoven scholar William Meredith who boldly states

In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle) Jean-Luc Godard beckons US ever closer

'Seguidilla'

Midas Touch 8

Watch as Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis works on Beethoven's Ninth with his ensemble

Nicolò Corradini and others can be heard with the tenor Georg Poplutz

And Matthias Kirschnereit has long enjoyed international renown

and frequently invited him up to visit the idyllic hamlet he now called home

and silliness to adore in Mind Melters 1 & 2