Great Composers in Words and Music: Erik Satie

Compilation by Satie

Released 26 August 2022
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Tracklist

  • 1
    Great Composers in Words and Music: Introduction
    Lucy Scott
    0:07
  • 2
    3 Sarabandes: II (excerpt)
    Klára Körmendi
    1:03
  • 3
    Great Composers in Words and Music: On 16th January 1911, French composer Maurice Ravel...
    Lucy Scott
    8:16
  • 4
    3 Gnossiennes: No 3. Lent (excerpt)
    Klára Körmendi
    1:41
  • 5
    Great Composers in Words and Music: An extract from the third movement of Satie’s Gnossiennes...
    Lucy Scott
    6:14
  • 6
    Valse-ballet (excerpt)
    Klára Körmendi
    1:27
  • 7
    Great Composers in Words and Music: The Valse-ballet was not only Satie’s first substantial piece…
    Lucy Scott
    2:36
  • 8
    4 Ogives: I.
    Klára Körmendi
    1:45
  • 9
    Great Composers in Words and Music: In November 1886, Satie left the Conservatoire to begin military service…
    Lucy Scott
    3:12
  • 10
    3 Gymnopédies: No. 3 (excerpt)
    Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Jérôme Kaltenbach
    0:59
  • 11
    Great Composers in Words and Music: In the spring of 1890, Satie moved higher up into the Butte Montmartre to 6 rue Cortot…
    Lucy Scott
    3:50
  • 12
    3 Sonneries de la Rose+Croix: I. Air de l’ordre (excerpt)
    Klára Körmendi
    1:35
  • 13
    Great Composers in Words and Music: On 14th August 1892, after a short but intense period of engagement with Rosicrucian ideology and practice…
    Lucy Scott
    3:11
  • 14
    Vexations (excerpt)
    Nicolas Horvath
    1:22
  • 15
    Great Composers in Words and Music: Satie’s outward appearance was soon to change…
    Lucy Scott
    4:15
  • 16
    Trois Morceaux en forme de poire (excerpt)
    Gábor Eckhardt, Klára Körmendi
    0:45
  • 17
    Great Composers in Words and Music: The Pear pieces, finished in November 1903…
    Lucy Scott
    1:45
  • 18
    En habit de cheval (excerpt)
    Gábor Eckhardt, Klára Körmendi
    1:16
  • 19
    Great Composers in Words and Music: 1911, of course, was the year of the breakthrough concert with which our history began…
    Lucy Scott
    3:57
  • 20
    Sports et divertissements: I. Choral inappétissant
    Klára Körmendi
    0:42
  • 21
    Great Composers in Words and Music: The commission of Sports et divertissements…
    Lucy Scott
    2:01
  • 22
    Parade: II. Petite fille américaine (excerpt)
    Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Jérôme Kaltenbach
    2:35
  • 23
    Great Composers in Words and Music: There was quite a commotion at Parade’s premiere on 18th May 1917…
    Lucy Scott
    4:05
  • 24
    Musique d’ameublement, Set 1: I. Tapisserie en fer forgé
    Sandra & Jeroen van Veen
    1:25
  • 25
    Great Composers in Words and Music: Curiously, the function of Satie’s Musique d’ameublement as a…
    Lucy Scott
    3:12
  • 26
    Mercure, Scène 3: ‘Le Chaos’
    Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Jérôme Kaltenbach
    0:35
  • 27
    Great Composers in Words and Music: Mercure, like Parade, created quite a stir on its premiere…
    Lucy Scott
    3:42
  • 28
    Relâche, Acte I: Cinéma (excerpt)
    Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Jérôme Kaltenbach
    1:15
  • 29
    Great Composers in Words and Music: In a sense, critics’ response to Relâche can be read as a microcosm of…
    Lucy Scott
    2:40
  • 30
    Relâche, Acte II: Petite danse finale (Chanson mimée). La queue du chien (excerpt)
    Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Jérôme Kaltenbach
    0:34

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