Satie

Featuring

Alain Planès
Philippe François Pinel (Dumanoir)
Marc Mauillon
Erik Satie

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Compositional Technique

In Embryons desséchés, Satie reworks memorable musical excerpts, linking Bach, Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven, and parodies Chopin's 'Funeral March'.

Composer Biography

At age thirty-nine, Satie returned to school, enrolling in the austere Schola Cantorum, where he was mentored by Albert Roussel.

Cultural Impact

Satie's disconcerting humor, evident in his later works, foreshadowed the destructive spirit of Dada and the iconoclasm of Marcel Duchamp.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Satie's early works, like the Gymnopédies, established a 'poetics of purity' where few notes express a distant world, reducing means of expression while saying much.

Composer Biography

Erik Satie's childhood was marked by significant losses, including his mother at age six and his grandmother at age twelve, who was found drowned.

Compositional Technique

In his Gnossiennes, Satie removed bar lines and was inspired by gypsy folklore he encountered at the 1889 Paris Exposition.

Performer Biography

Alain Planès, the pianist on this album, was taught by Jacques Février, who was a student of Ricardo Viñes, a great interpreter of Satie, Debussy, and Ravel.