Artist: Noriko Ogawa

Title: Erik Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 1

Year Of Release: 2016

Label: BIS

Genre: Classical, Piano

Quality: flac lossless + booklet

Total Time: 01:18:04

Total Size: 262 mb



Tracklist

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01. Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent

02. Gnossiennes: No. 2, Avec etonnement

03. Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent

04. Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent

05. Gnossiennes: No. 5, Modéré

06. Gnossiennes: No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse

07. Gnossiennes: No. 7, Le fils des étoiles

08. Le piccadilly

09. Chapitres tournés en tous sens: I. Celle qui parle trop

10. Chapitres tournés en tous sens: II. Le porteur de grosses pierres

11. Chapitres tournés en tous sens: III. Regrets des enfermés

12. Avant-dernières pensées: I. Idylle

13. Avant-dernières pensées: II. Aubade

14. Avant-dernières pensées: III. Méditation

15. Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: I. Tyrolienne turque

16. Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: II. Danse maigre

17. Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: III. Españaña

18. Sonatine bureaucratique: I. Allegro

19. Sonatine bureaucratique: II. Andante

20. Sonatine bureaucratique: III. Vivace

21. Poudre d'or

22. Embryons desséchés: I. D'Holothurie

23. Embryons desséchés: II. D'Edriophthalma

24. Embryons desséchés: III. De Podophthalma

25. Descriptions automatiques: I. Sur un vaisseau

26. Descriptions automatiques: II. Sur une lanterne

27. Descriptions automatiques: III. Sur un casque

28. Heures séculaires et instantanées: I. Obstacles venimeux

29. Heures séculaires et instantanées: II. Crépuscule matinal

30. Heures séculaires et instantanées: III. Affolements granitiques

31. Prélude en tapisserie

32. 3 Valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté: No. 1, Sa taille

33. 3 Valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté: No. 2, Son binocle

34. 3 Valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté: No. 3, Ses jambes

35. Je te veux

36. 3 Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux

37. 3 Gymnopédies: No. 2, Lent et triste

38. 3 Gymnopédies: No. 3, Lent et grave



150 years after his birth, Erik Satie is still one of the great enigmas of classical music a composer who said of himself 'I am not fond of jokes I never make jokes' but is nevertheless regarded as one of the great tricksters of Western music; who at one stage was involved with esoteric societies such as the Rosicrucian Order and founded a church of his own (the 'Metropolitan Art Church of Jesus the Conductor'), and inventing the genre 'furniture music' that, for Satie, was 'fundamentally industrial', similar to 'light, heat and all the forms of comfort'. In this anniversary year, Noriko Ogawa launches a complete set of Satie's music for solo piano a body of works which includes the sets of Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies, which through their use in countless movie sound tracks have reached and affected audiences across the planet, pieces that Satie wrote for his own use when working as a bar pianist (Je te veux, Le Piccadilly), parodies on other composers (Sonatine bureaucratique is a spoof on a sonata by Clementi) as well as experiments such as Vexations, a brief theme with chordal accompaniment which according to an instruction in the score is to be played 840 times! Noriko Ogawa, whose wide-ranging and acclaimed discography includes music by Mozart and Rachmaninov as well as complete recordings of the piano music by her compatriot Toru Takemitsu and by Debussy (a friend and rival of Satie's) performs all of this on an instrument from Satie's own time an exquisite Erard grand piano built in 1890, the very year that Satie composed his Gnossienne No. 1 which opens this disc and new cycle.