Matthias Lika - Raff: Dame Kobold [CD] Carlos Garnett After it's initial 2010 release

After it's initial 2010 release

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the group recorded most of the music live to enhance their unity in a way that gives the album a fuller sound compared to past releases

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Matthias Lika - Raff: Dame Kobold [CD] Carlos Garnett After it's initial 2010 releaseJoachim Raff moved in circles that included Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann, and he ultimately became one of the best known German composers of his day. Of Raff's six stage works Dame Kobold ('The Phantom Lady') was the first of a series of comic operas that anticipated later trends, moving away from Wagnerian pathos and looking back to the levity of Rossini. Admired for it's utterly gorgeous musical setting, the opera is notable for a disarmingly