Erik Satie: Avent dernières pensées

Erik Satie: Avent dernières pensées

Erik Satie: Avent dernières pensées
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Composer: Erik Satie
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud
Performer: Eric le Sage
Performer: Jean Delescluse
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Gnossienne for piano No. 1
  2. Gymnopedie for piano No. 1
  3. Gnossienne for piano No. 2
  4. Gnossienne for piano No. 3
  5. Le Piccadilly, march for piano
  6. Descriptions automatiques, for piano: Sur un vaisseau
  7. Descriptions automatiques, for piano: Sur une lanterne
  8. Descriptions automatiques, for piano: Sur un casque
  9. Gnossienne for piano No. 4
  10. Les pantins dansent (The puppets dance), for piano
  11. Le Piège de Méduse, dances for piano: 6. Polka
  12. Le Piège de Méduse, dances for piano: 7. Quadrille
  13. Carnet d'esquisses et de croquis (Notebook of Sketches and Rough Drafts), for piano: Gambades
  14. Gnossienne for piano No. 5
  15. Valse-ballet, for piano
  16. Poudre d'or (Gold Dust), for piano
  17. Gnossienne for piano No. 6
Music CD 2
  1. Morceaux (3) en forme de poire (3 pieces in the form of a pear), for piano, 4 hands or orchestra: 1. Lentement
  2. Morceaux (3) en forme de poire (3 pieces in the form of a pear), for piano, 4 hands or orchestra: 3. Brutal
  3. Morceaux (3) en forme de poire (3 pieces in the form of a pear), for piano, 4 hands or orchestra: En plus
  4. Morceaux (3) en forme de poire (3 pieces in the form of a pear), for piano, 4 hands or orchestra: Redite
  5. Chez le docteur (At the doctor's), for voice & piano
  6. J'avais un ami, song for voice & piano
  7. La diva de l'Empire, song for voice & piano
  8. La belle excentrique, 'serious fantasy' for orchestra (or piano, 4 hands): 1. Marche franco-lunaire
  9. La belle excentrique, 'serious fantasy' for orchestra (or piano, 4 hands): Grande Ritournelle
  10. La belle excentrique, 'serious fantasy' for orchestra (or piano, 4 hands): Grande Ritournelle
  11. La belle excentrique, 'serious fantasy' for orchestra (or piano, 4 hands): 3. Cancan Grand-Mondain
  12. Ludions, song cycle for voice & piano: Le chat, burlesque
  13. Allons-y chochotte, song for voice & piano

Music reviews of Erik Satie: Avent dernières pensées

Music Review: COMPLEXLY SPLENDID!
Rating: 5 Stars

Having chased releases of Satie's work for many years and having experienced many shades of disappointment, this is finally and by far the most satisfying, thoughtful, entertaining and lovely set of performances one could expect to hear, by a long shot. Full of nuance, humor and detail -- even a casual listening reveals an atypical approach to establishing the soundstage: the sort of "music hall" pieces actually exhibit a kind of music hall ambience -- in performances that animate not just the music, but the compositional conception of the music.

Only one negative. The liner notes bemoan some people for liking the Gymnopédies for the "wrong reasons". Of course, the right reasons are not given. One should certainly note the degree of comprehension a listener might demonstrate, and encourage that comprehension to grow. And, even after decades of listening to many forms of music, I'm not sure that I would have the right reasons for liking Satie either. There's the humor, the seemingly casual yet incredibly detailed constructs, the self-parody and parody of other forms, moments of understatement, moments of overstatement, their brevity and absence of useless ornament, the puns, calm set beside the animated, recognizable and familiar harmonies in unusual juxtaposition. Of course, these reasons in and of themselves do not constitute my experience of the music, no matter how many might be right, and how many might be wrong.

So, all our many, varied, right and wrong reasons aside, it's a measure of the value and distinctiveness of Satie's work that artists return to the compositions again and again, teasing out more and more of what makes these pieces so profoundly unique and so engaging, both emotionally and intellectually. And Tharaud's interpretations are easily the finest I have yet to hear.

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Description of Erik Satie: Avent dernières pensées

World premiere recordings as well as relaxing favourites (including the famous Gymnopedie No. 1) from France's chicest, quirkiest composer. Alexandre Tharaud is renowned as an expert in French chamber music. Features acclaimed violinist Isabelle Faust. Beautifully packaged 2-CD set with access to downloads of extra bonus tracks. 'My aim in these two discs has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano and chamber music, spanning his whole lifetime.Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters.' - Alexandre Tharaud

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