Noriko Ogawa - Erik Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 1 '2016

Tracks list

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 dun gros bonhomme en bois: I. Tyrolienne turque
16. Croquis et agaceries dun gros bonhomme en bois: II. Danse maigre
17. Croquis et agaceries dun gros bonhomme en bois: III. Españaña
18. Sonatine bureaucratique: I. Allegro
19. Sonatine bureaucratique: II. Andante
20. Sonatine bureaucratique: III. Vivace
21. Poudre dor
22. Embryons desséchés: I. DHolothurie
23. Embryons desséchés: II. DEdriophthalma
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
Saties 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 Saties)
performs all of this on an instrument from Saties 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.

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