JOACHIM RAFF (1822-1882): Grande Sonate in E Flat Minor, Op. 14 (2nd version) (rec. 1999), Suite No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 91 (rec. 1971).

Description: The weighty and virtuosic suite has its sixth CD appearance, coupled with the last of Raff's solo piano compositions, dating from late 1881, where easy and generous melody takes a back seat here to a craftsman of sometimes rather dense polyphony in all four movements although the slow movement produces melody recognizably Raffian. Adrian Ruiz (piano).