After The Rain: Soft Sounds Of Erik Satie;

This is one of the best Satie discs available. Why? Well, the performances are superb, the recording very clear; but moreover, what Rog© has done here is select all Satie's lovely and haunting adagio pieces from Satie's entire oeuvre for solo piano. This is signifigant because apart from these pieces, the remainder of Satie's piano works consists of frantic, 'humorous' pieces that are supposed to be 'funny'. (Perhaps they were valuable as novelties during Satie's own day, as evocations of Modernism, Futurism, Vorticism, etc.)