Second of four programmes
Raff and Liszt
Piano music played by MALCOLM BINNS
Raff composed numerous works for piano solo, many of them making considerable technical demands on the exponent. Liszt, with whom the composer had a close working relationship in Weimar for some years, made his transcription from Raff's first opera, King Alfred, in 1853. Raff Elegy in Sonata Form: Folksong with Variations (Suite in G minor. Op 162)
The Gladiators (Romances. Op 8)
Raff. transc Llszt
Andante-Finale and March (King Alfred)
(first broadcasts)