Tra Nguyen's orchestral recording début of Joachim Raff's Suite for Piano and Orchestra was chosen as Album of the Week by The Independent in March 2010.
Composer Biography
Raff, the composer, walked for two days through pouring rain to attend a recital by Franz Liszt, the great piano virtuoso, in Basel in 1845.
Composer Biography
Joseph Joachim Raff, the composer, was once considered the foremost symphonist of his day during the 1860s and 1870s.
Composer Biography
Raff became the founding director of the prestigious Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1877.
Performer Biography
Tra Nguyen, the British-Vietnamese pianist, gave her first performance at the Hanoi Opera House at the age of ten.
Composition History
The autograph score of Raff's Fantaisie in B major, WoO.15A, was discovered by chance in 2010 among unrelated Liszt organ works in a Dutch library.
Composer Biography
Raff was entirely self-taught and overcame early poverty, even being briefly imprisoned for debt in Weimar.
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