New Album Releases: LETTER(S) TO ERIK SATIE (Bertrand Chamayou)

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Artist:
Bertrand Chamayou

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
69:52

Record Label:
Erato

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
September 1, 2023




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Product Description: Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely different prism," says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. "They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be." With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. Satie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following it's rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney - whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme. Chamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: "I thought we should do something a little different - and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano... Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie (03:38)

2 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent (03:03)

3 . Prelude for Meditation (01:21)

4 . 3 .Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux (02:58)

5 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 2, Avec étonnement (02:02)

6 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent (02:46)

7 . A Room (01:17)

8 . In a Landscape (08:01)

9 . 3 .Petites pièces montées: No. 1, De l'enfance de Pantagruel. Rêverie (01:14)

10 . 3 .Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien): No. 1, Sévère réprimande (00:40)

11 . 3 .Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien): No. 2, Seul à la maison (00:58)

12 . 3 .Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien): No. 3, On joue (00:50)

13 . 3 .Gymnopédies: No. 2, Lent et triste (02:41)

14 . Sports et divertissements: No. 9, Le bain de mer (00:28)

15 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent (02:08)

16 . Sports et divertissements: No. 2, La balançoire (00:44)

17 . Swinging (00:46)

18 . Gymnopédies: No. 3, Lent et grave (02:31)

19 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 5, Modéré (02:47)

20 . 5 .Nocturnes: No. 2, Simplement (01:48)

21 . Sports et divertissements: No. 17, Le tango perpétuel (02:08)

22 . Perpetual Tango (01:33)

23 . 6 .Gnossiennes: No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse (01:50)

24 . 3 .Sarabandes: No. 3 .in B-Flat Minor (04:26)

25 . 6 .Pièces de la période 1906-1913: No. 6, Songe-creux (01:44)

26 . Le fils des étoiles: Prélude du premier acte. La vocation (03:38)

27 . Gnossienne No. 7 . (02:26)

28 . Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (In Celebration of Erik Satie) (00:33)

29 .Dream (09:11)

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