Satie: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 (New Salabert Edition)

Featuring

Nicolas Horvath
Erik Satie

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Cultural Impact

Satie's iconoclastic ideas, particularly in his piano music, had a marked effect on the aesthetic of John Cage and his contemporaries after World War II.

Compositional Technique

Satie's early Rose+Croix music, like the four Ogives, used slow chordal chains and contrasts of texture and dynamics, taking inspiration from medieval plainsong.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Erik Satie (1866-1925) rejected Romantic expressiveness and emotional excess, choosing simplicity, clarity, precision, elegance, and economy in his music.

Performer Biography

Nicolas Horvath, the pianist, is known for organizing concerts of unusual length, sometimes lasting over twelve hours, including the complete piano music of Philip Glass.

Composer Biography

Satie's 'Vexations' and 'Danses Gothiques' were composed during a tempestuous affair with artist Suzanne Valadon (1867-1938), whom he asked for police protection from at one point.

Recording & Production

This album is part of a complete piano works series based on Robert Orledge's new Salabert Edition of Satie's piano music, published in 2016.

Compositional Technique

Satie's 'Vexations' is considered the first example of organized total chromaticism and quasi-serialism in music, using 11 of the 12 semitones in its theme.