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New Releases > 2007 New Releases - Highlights > Classical Music
Satie Piano Works (Complete)
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| Artist: | Satie |
| Price: | €24.99 |
| Label: | Brilliant Classics |
Catalogue
Number: | 93559 |
| Format: | 6 CDs |
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Piano music by Satie usually comes down to his Gymnopédies or his Gnossiennes, or to both. These are Saties best-known pieces and represent his early work. But the composer of musique dameublement wrote far more for the piano. All charming pieces of varied character more often than not with unusual, to say the least, titles.
Being a Parisian at the turn of the (last) century Satie frequented the cabarets and music-halls. He assimilated the style of their music into quite a few of his piano works. Including the Divertissements and the Pièces froides (cold pieces).
Satie was a humorous composer, although his humour sometimes has a serious undertone. This does not prevent his music from being highly entertaining or food for thought. Great stuff.
The sixth CD is entirely devoted to Vexations. Officially this piece consists of 840 repetitions of the motif given. 42 Are recorded here. By playing it 20 times over one meets the composers requirements....
Pianist Cristina Ariagno is a renowned specialist for this piano repertoire. She has recorded a lot of music by Saties contemporaries. Here with great enthusiasm she delves just under the surface or into great depths of the music. |
CD 1: Musique des origines
1 3. Sarabandes
4 6. Gymnopédies
7 13. Gnossiennes
14 19. Pièces froides (1897)
20 22. Nouvelles pièces froides (1907)
CD 2: Musique à genoux
1. Fête donnée par des chevaliers normands en l'honneur d'une jeune demoiselle
2 7. Ogives (1886 - 1889?)
8 10. Sonneries de la rose+croix (1892)
11 20. Danses gothiques (1893)
21 33. Douze petits chorals (1906 - 1908)
CD 3
Humour fantaisiste
1. The dreamy fish ou le poisson rêveur (1901) 7:22
2 5. Préludes flasques pour un chien (1912)
6 8. Véritables préludes flasques pour un chien (1912)
9 11. Descriptions automatiques (1913)
12 14. Embryons desséchés (1913)
15 17. Croquis & agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois (1913)
18 20. Chapitres tournés en tous sens (1913)
21 23. Vieux sequins & Vieilles cuirasses (1913)
24 26. Heures séculaires & instantanées (1914)
27 29. Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté (1914)
30 32. Avant-dernières pensées (1915)
33 35. Sonatine bureaucratique (1917)
CD 4
1 8. Jeux et divertissements
9 11. Trois nouvelles enfantines (1913)
12 14. L'enfance de ko-quo (1913)
15 17. Menus propos enfantines (1913)
18 20. Enfantillages pittoresques (1913)
21 23. Peccadilles importunes (1913)
24 46. Sports & divertissements (1914)
CD 5: Musique de scène
1 3. Préludes du "fils des étoiles" (1891)
4 8. Prélude du "Nazaréen" (1892)
9 11. Jack in the box (1899)
12 19. Sept toutes petites danses pour "Le piège de méduse" (1913)
20 21. La belle excentrique (1920 - 1924)
22 27. Six nocturnes (1919)
CD 6: Vexations
1 42. Vexations |
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