Title & Reference
SATIE
A selection of piano pieces
GCD P30508
Performer
PATRICK
COHEN , piano Érard
Production details
Total playing time: ca. 64 minutes
Recorded in Cuenca, Spain, in December 1997
Engineered and produced by Carlos Céster
Originally released in 1998 as GCD 920508
Booklet essay
Text by Reduán Ortega
Spanish, English, French, German
Bar code
8 424562 30508 3
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
01
Gnossienne nš 1
02 Gnossienne nš 2
03 Gnossienne nš 3
04 Gnossienne nš 5
05 Danse de travers III
06 Gnossienne nš 4
07 Air à faire fuir I
08 Danse de travers I
09 Air à faire fuir II
10 Danse de travers II
11 Petite ouverture à danser
12 Gnossienne nš 6
13 Première pensée rose-croix
14 Gymnopédie nš 1
15 Caresse
16 Gymnopédie nš 2
17 Air à faire fuir III
18 Gymnopédie nš 3
19 Sarabande nš 1
20 Le fils des étoiles: L’initiation
A cult record if there ever was one, Patrick Cohen’s Satie goes far beyond any one of the many versions of this music on the market. It is simply something else. Possibly the best CD Glossa has ever produced, it has provoked controversies of all sorts since its release in 1998, not only due to the interpretation and the instrument used, an 1855 Érard piano, but also because of the polemical essay which accompanied the original edition.
Words fall short. Let yourself be carried away...
