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Noriko Ogawa plays Satie - Piano Music, Vol. 1

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Catalogue numberBIS-2215 SACD
Release date2016-07-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time78:02

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’), but who could also be strikingly down to earth, preferring the description ‘phonometrician’ to that of ‘musician’ and inventing the genre ‘furniture music’: ‘fundamentally industrial’ and filling the same role as ‘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! With a wide-ranging and acclaimed discography which 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 of Satie’s), Noriko Ogawa performs all of this on an instrument from Satie’s own time – an exquisite Érard 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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  Composer: Satie, Erik
  Gnossiennes 18:30
01 Gnossienne No. 1 (1890). Lent 03:34 $ 0.86 USD
02 Gnossienne No. 2 (1890) 01:49 $ 0.44 USD
03 Gnossienne No. 3 (1890). Lent 02:29 $ 0.60 USD
04 Gnossienne No. 4 (1891). Lent 02:09 $ 0.52 USD
05 Gnossienne No. 5 (1889). Modéré 03:29 $ 0.84 USD
06 Gnossienne No. 6 (1897) 01:07 $ 0.27 USD
07 Gnossienne No. 7 (1891) 03:53 $ 0.93 USD
 
08 Le Piccadilly (Marche) (1904). Pas trop vite 01:23 $ 0.33 USD
 
  Chapitres tournés en tous sens (1913) 05:04
09 I. Celle qui parle trop. Vif 00:50 $ 0.20 USD
10 II. Le porteur de grosses pierres. Très lent 02:20 $ 0.56 USD
11 III. Regrets des enfermés (Jonas et Latude). Soyez modéré 01:54 $ 0.46 USD
 
  Avant-dernières pensées (1915) 02:41
12 I. Idylle. Modéré, je vous prie 00:51 $ 0.20 USD
13 II. Aubade. Pas vite 01:08 $ 0.27 USD
14 III. Méditation. Un peu vif 00:42 $ 0.17 USD
 
  Croquis et agaceries d’un gros bonhomme en bois (1913) 04:31
15 I. Tyrolienne turque. Avec precaution et lent 01:51 $ 0.44 USD
16 II. Danse maigre (à la manière de ces Messieurs). Assez
lent, si vous le voulez bien
01:21 $ 0.32 USD
17 III. Españaña. Sorte de Valse 01:19 $ 0.32 USD
 
  Sonatine bureaucratique (1917) 03:43
18 Allegro 01:04 $ 0.26 USD
19 Andante 01:11 $ 0.28 USD
20 Vivace 01:28 $ 0.35 USD
 
21 Poudre d’or (Valse) (1900). Modéré 04:36 $ 1.10 USD
 
  Embryons desséchés (1913) 06:02
22 I. d’Holothurie. Allez un peu 01:53 $ 0.45 USD
23 II. d’Edriophthalma. Sombre 02:27 $ 0.59 USD
24 III. de Podophthalma. Un peu vif 01:42 $ 0.41 USD
 
  Descriptions automatiques (1913) 05:03
25 I. Sur un vaisseau. Assez lent 02:12 $ 0.53 USD
26 II. Sur une lanterne. Lent 01:57 $ 0.47 USD
27 III. Sur un casque. Pas accéléré 00:54 $ 0.22 USD
 
  Heures séculaires et instantanées (1914) 03:31
28 I. Obstacles venimeux. Noirâtre 01:46 $ 0.42 USD
29 II. Crépuscule matinal (de midi). Sans grandeur 00:52 $ 0.21 USD
30 III. Affolements granitiques. Vivement 00:53 $ 0.21 USD
 
31 Prélude en tapisserie (1906). Lent 02:03 $ 0.49 USD
 
  Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté (1914) 03:18
32 I. Sa taille. Pas vite 01:04 $ 0.26 USD
33 II. Son binocle. Très lent, s’il vous plait 01:28 $ 0.35 USD
34 III. Ses jambes. Déterminé 00:46 $ 0.18 USD
 
35 Je te veux (Valse) (1897). Modéré 05:16 $ 1.26 USD
 
  Trois Gymnopédies (1888) 09:24
36 Gymnopédie No. 1. Lent et douloureux 03:28 $ 0.83 USD
37 Gymnopédie No. 2. Lent et triste 03:09 $ 0.76 USD
38 Gymnopédie No. 3. Lent et grave 02:47 $ 0.67 USD
 
  Album total 78:02
ComposerSatie, Erik
PianoOgawa, Noriko

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