Raphael Immoos

Basler Madrigalisten, Raphael Immoos – Joachim Raff: Choral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:18 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Classical
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Even eleven romantic symphonies, various concert pieces and four operas have not quite brought Joachim Raff, Franz Liszt’s interim assistant and orchestrator, a breakthrough into the modern repertoire. Perhaps his varied a capella music, which can least be accused of epigonality, helps. Raff’s own dichotomy between liberal awakening and intellectual Catholicism is musically noticeable as a wandering between – and combination of – late Romanticism and his very own reinterpretation of Cecilianism (anticipating Hans Pfitzner by decades) between political awakening choruses and Marian antiphons.
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Basler Madrigalisten, Raphael Immoos – Ammann: Missa Defensor Pacis (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:16 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Classical
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Benno Ammann’s oeuvre reveals influences from impressionism to free tonality, yet he belongs to no stylistic school. The Swiss composer wrote Missa Defensor Pacis in 1946 for the official canonisation, at St. Peter’s in Rome, of Nicholas of Flüe, patron saint of Switzerland. This prestigious commission, with its complex polyphony, countless variations, and use of the cantus firmus technique, is one of the most important and extensive Masses by a Swiss composer for a cappella choir.
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