Satie - Choice Works for Piano
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Label: Praga Digitals
Cat No: DSD250299
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd September 2013
Contents
Works
Cinq grimaces pour 'Le songe d'une nuit d'ete'Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois
Descriptions automatiques
Gnossiennes (6)
Gymnopedies (3)
La Belle Excentrique
Les Trois Valses distinguees du precieux degoute
Parade
Petite ouverture a danser
Pieces froides (6)
Premiere pensee Rose+Croix
Sarabandes (3)
Artists
Christoph Deluze (piano)Orchestre National de France
Conductor
Manuel RosenthalWorks
Cinq grimaces pour 'Le songe d'une nuit d'ete'Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois
Descriptions automatiques
Gnossiennes (6)
Gymnopedies (3)
La Belle Excentrique
Les Trois Valses distinguees du precieux degoute
Parade
Petite ouverture a danser
Pieces froides (6)
Premiere pensee Rose+Croix
Sarabandes (3)
Artists
Christoph Deluze (piano)Orchestre National de France
Conductor
Manuel RosenthalAbout
"Erik Satie's music is singular in numerous respects, in particular its simplicity of harmony and repetitions. The composer's occasionally minimalist writing seems to stem from a desire for music that was airier and easier to 'digest' at a time when works calling for large forces and playing times that were sometimes very long [Wagner operas, perhaps] were very much in fashion. Hence a return to a certain simplicity and the search for elementary emotion.
I hope that listening to this disc will be both a caress for the soul and a spark for the mind! As Satie would say in his prologue to the 'Descriptions automatiques': 'it is quite obvious that the flattened, the insignificant and the bloated will take no pleasure here. May they swallow their beards, may they dance on their belly.'" [from the booklet note by Christoph Deluze]
Christoph Deluze's selection of Satie's eclectic piano music is followed by 'Parade' in a recording from 1959. "Astonish me", Diaghilev reputedly said to Cocteau one evening. In 1915 the latter would bring together the painter Picasso, the dancer/choreographer Massine, and Satie for the music of this ballet. The premiere took place on 18 May 1917 at the Théatre du Châtelet and provoked a real scandal, comparable to that of 'The Rite of Spring', four years earlier.
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