Celebrated for a prodigious output as much as for the dramatic range of his works , Raff was for many years the protege of Liszt and the influence on Raffs technique is unmistakable. The Reminiscenzen is one of many salon works that Raff...

Modelled with a clear deference to the Song without Words form of Mendelssohn, Loreley is based loosely on the 1801 poem by Clemens Brentano, 'Zu Bacharach am Rheine' in which the tragic heroine Lore Lay climbs a rock on the Rhine to...

Raff wrote this picturesque study in reminiscence of the Giessbach falls in Switzerland. A prodigious talent who for many years worked for Franz Liszt as a musical assistant and secretary this piece was written later when Raff was fully...

A composer with a vastand varied catalogue of works Raff is celebrated as much for his prodigious originality as for his technical accomplishments. A former protégé of Liszt, Raff's Ungarische Rhapsodie Opus 113, pays homage to the...

The Deux Elégies were composed in 1868 during a period of great stability in Raff's life. After years spent under apprenticeship to his mentor and friend, Franz Liszt, Raff had struck out on his own in his efforts to refine his personal...

The Romanze of 1847 was composed at a pivotal moment in Raff's career when the "next serious phase" of his musical career was being envisaged. Living a precarious existence between abject poverty and tempestuous creativity the Romanze is...

The mazurka started life in the17C as a Polish dance of rustic regional origins and is said to have borrowed its distinctive accent on the weak beat of a measure from the Polish language itself. When Raff composed the Grande Mazurka, the...