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Conductor: Urs Schneider
Slovak Philharmonic
Year: 1993
Symphony No. 11 in A minor "Der Winter" (The Winter) (1876), Op. 214 was the last symphony by German-Swiss composer Joachim Raff. It concluded his series of symphonies (No. 8 through to No. 11) which each marked the four seasons of the year. Though work on this symphony began in 1876, it remained incomplete at the time of Raff's death in 1882. There is evidence in Raff's sketches of dissatisfaction, which might explain why the piece remained incomplete. Nonetheless, the symphony was completed by Max Erdmannsdörfer shortly after Raff's death.
0:00 I. Allegro - Die erste Schnee
10:32 II. Allegretto
16:43 III. Larghetto - Am Kamin
26:41 IV. Allegro - Carneval
Conductor: Urs Schneider
Slovak Philharmonic
Year: 1993
Symphony No. 11 in A minor "Der Winter" (The Winter) (1876), Op. 214 was the last symphony by German-Swiss composer Joachim Raff. It concluded his series of symphonies (No. 8 through to No. 11) which each marked the four seasons of the year. Though work on this symphony began in 1876, it remained incomplete at the time of Raff's death in 1882. There is evidence in Raff's sketches of dissatisfaction, which might explain why the piece remained incomplete. Nonetheless, the symphony was completed by Max Erdmannsdörfer shortly after Raff's death.
0:00 I. Allegro - Die erste Schnee
10:32 II. Allegretto
16:43 III. Larghetto - Am Kamin
26:41 IV. Allegro - Carneval







![Bartók - Viola Concerto
Conductor: András Kórodi
Soloist: Géza Németh
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Viola Concerto, Sz. 120, BB 128 was one of the last pieces written by Béla Bartók. He began composing the work while living in Saranac Lake, New York, in July 1945. The piece was commissioned by William Primrose, a respected violist who knew that Bartók could provide a challenging piece for him to perform.
He said that Bartók should not feel in any way proscribed by the apparent technical limitations of the instrument; Bartók, though, was suffering from the terminal stages of leukemia when he began writing the viola concerto and left only sketches at the time of his death.
0:00 I. Moderato [BB 128]
11:32 II. Adagio religioso [BB 128]
15:46 III. Allegro vivace [BB 128] Bartók - Viola Concerto](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TSZSTV90R4k/mqdefault.jpg)


