Satie: Piano Works

Creators: Erik Satie, Aldo Ciccolini
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music

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13 reviews
Sales Rank: 3173

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.9

MPN: 67282
UPC: 077776728223
EAN: 0077776728223
ASIN: B000002SBP

Release Date: January 23, 1992
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Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Gymnopedie I
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Gymnopedie II
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Gymnopedie III
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Les Trois Valses distinguees du precieux degoute I: Sa taille
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: II: Son binocle
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: III: Ses jambes
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Trois Gnossiennes: I Lent
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: II Avec etonnement
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: III Lent
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Trois Gnossiennes: IV Lent
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: V Modere
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: VI Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Trois Mouvements en forme de poire, a quatre mains: Maniere de commencement
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Prolongation du meme
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: I
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: II
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: III
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: En plus
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Redite
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: I Tyrolienne turque
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: II Danse maigre (a la maniere de ces messieurs)
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: III Espanana (Sorte de valse)
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Sonatine bureaucratique
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Trois Nocturnes: I Doux et calme
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: II Simplement
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: III Un peu mouvemente
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Premiere pensee et sonneries de la Rose Croix: Air de lOrdre
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Air du Grand Maitre
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Air du Grand Prieur
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Le Fils des Etoiles: Prelude du 1er acte: la Vocation
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Prelude du IIe acte: l'Initiation
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: Prelude du IIIe acte: l'Incantation

Disc 2

•	Jack In The Box: Prelude
•	Jack In The Box: Entracte
•	Jack In The Box: Final
•	Sports et Divertissements: Choral inappetissant
•	Sports et Divertissements: La Balancoire
•	Sports et Divertissements: La Chasse
•	Sports et Divertissements: La Comedie italienne
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Reveil de la Mariee
•	Sports et Divertissements: Colin-Maillard
•	Sports et Divertissements: La Peche
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Yachting
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Bain de mer
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Carnaval
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Golf
•	Sports et Divertissements: La Pieuvre
•	Sports et Divertissements: Les Courses
•	Sports et Divertissements: Les Quatre-Coins
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le pique-nique
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Water-chute
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Tango
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Traineau
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Flirt
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Feu d'artifice
•	Sports et Divertissements: Le Tennis
•	Oeuvres Pour Piano: I D'Holothurie
•	Embryons desseches: II D'Edriophtalma
•	Embryons desseches: III De Podophtalma
•	Preludes flasques (pour un chien): I Voix d'interieur
•	Preludes flasques (pour un chien): II. Idylle cynique
•	Preludes flasques (pour un chien): III. Chanson canine
•	Preludes flasques (pour un chien): IV. Avec camaraderie
•	En habit de cheval (a 4 mains): I Choral
•	En habit de cheval (a 4 mains): II Fugue litanique
•	En habit de cheval (a 4 mains): III Autre chose
•	En habit de cheval (a 4 mains): IV Fugue de papier
•	Apercus desagreables: I Pastorale
•	Apercus desagreables: II Choral
•	Apercus desagreables: III Fugue
•	Descriptions automatiques: I Sur un vaisseau
•	Descriptions automatiques: II Sur une lanterne
•	Descriptions automatiques: III Sur un casque
•	3 Petites pieces montees (a 4 mains): De l'enfance de Pantagruel (Reverie)
•	3 Petites pieces montees (a 4 mains): Marche de Cocagne (Demarche)
•	3 Petites pieces montees (a 4 mains): Jeux de Gargantua (Coin de Polka)
•	Peccadilles importunes: Etre jaloux de son camarade qui a une grosse tete
•	Peccadilles importunes: Lui manger sa tartine
•	Peccadilles importunes: Profiter de ce qu'il a des cors aux pieds pour lui voler son cerceau
•	Pieces froides - No. 1 Airs a faire fuir: I D'une maniere particuliere
•	Pieces froides - No. 1 Airs a faire fuir: II Modestement
•	Pieces froides - No. 1 Airs a faire fuir: III S'inviter
•	Pieces froides - No. 2 Danses de travers: I En y regardant par deux fois
•	Pieces froides - No. 2 Danses de travers: II Passer
•	Pieces froides - No. 2 Danses de travers: III Encore
•	La Belle Excentrique: I Grande ritournelle
•	La Belle Excentrique: II Marche franco-lunaire
•	La Belle Excentrique: III Valse du 'Mysterieux baiser dans l'oeil'
•	La Belle Excentrique: IV Can-can grand-mondain
•	3 Sarabandes: No. 1
•	3 Sarabandes: No. 2
•	3 Sarabandes: No. 3

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
It's simple: in his various realizations of the piano music of Erik Satie, Aldo Ciccolini set a standard that has yet to be bettered. This compilation, drawn from recordings made between 1966 and 1971, is consequently the best of the best. Ciccolini always played Satie's music as though it had been written by Claude Debussy, not by some cheap charlatan or uneducated primitive (which, to an extent that is still debatable, Satie was). The result is that these seemingly simple piano pieces acquire a tonal allure that is as surprising as it is undeniable. They possess an understated sophistication that points directly toward Ravel and Poulenc, at the same time providing an opening to the minimalist aesthetic of the later 20th century. Ciccolini's playing is pliant and graceful, and under his fingers the music seems to breathe and come alive. What more could a composer or a listener want? --Ted Libbey

Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Sophisticated but rather shallow playing March 28, 2008

Ciccolini's recording of Satie's piano music had dominated decades as finest set, but only because there wasn't any rivals at the time. Now compared to other superior recordings, his playing, highly sophisticated, sounds rather conventional and shallow. I get an impression that this pianist regarded Satie's music as some witty light music. I would love complete satie piano works played with more depth and delicacy (Leeuw's earlier recording comes close to ideal, but it was not complete set). Thibaudet's complete recording is very fine, but again without much depth.

5 out of 5 stars

The Master of Haunting Music March 5, 2008
From the first moment I heard his haunting piano pieces, I knew I must buy a CD with his best music, which from what I've heard, is just about anything. For anyone who wants to hear music that will stay in your memory long after listening to it, even though it seems to be simple notes on a piano, this CD collection is definitely the place to start.

3 out of 5 stars

Satie Again.... November 26, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful

The best available recording of an overplayed and utterly tapped out work. If only Hollywood hadn't gotten hold of Satie. But they have, and now his work forever invokes pale heroines wandering around in the forest/on the beach/in the ballroom, staring out of windows and whining anemically about the winter setting in.

5 out of 5 stars

Satie September 6, 2007
This is the best cd you can buy about Satie works on piano. Aldo Ciccolini is very good at the piano playing the major known works of this amazing artist. Great price, excellent music.

5 out of 5 stars

Picasso in sound February 19, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Eric Satie were drinking buddies; it shouldn't be surprising that their work, though in different media, should bear striking similarities. This CD set replaces a very badly abused vinyl recording from the 1960s. No one plays Satie like Aldo Ciccolini. I do wish the Parade had been included, Satie wrote the music, Cocteau the libretto and Picasso did the sets and costumes-Satie's only ballet. Of course, the circa 1910 audience walked out. It's the story of an out-of-work ballet company that goes out onto the streets of Paris to try to get customers to come inside. The customers are stereotypes like the American in a cowboy outfit who adds the sound of this six gun to the music and the secretary who types through the encounter. The back wall of the theater was covered with Picasso designed neon signs flashing in bright colors throughout the performance. Across the front of the stage he'd strung acetate on which were playing street scenes of Paris from three cameras-red, blue and green. The men were way, way ahead of their times.

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