On Saturday October 6, 2018 at the Philharmonie de Paris, Nicolas Horvath sat down to perform Erik Satie’s complete works for piano without a break. The event was captured in this fascinating film by acclaimed director Thierry Villeneuve and features selections from Horvath’s marathon eight-hour performance, filmed in black and white. This immersive visual experience sees Satie’s mysterious and timeless music brought to life in a dreamlike conflation of past and present in front of a captivated audience. Horvath wrote of the evening: “This concert was remarkable, the press coverage was incredible (all of the main media previewed it as a ‘must see concert’). Curiously, and unlike everything I had prepared, or even in my very own recordings – performing all of a composer’s music with no break at the very same concert takes you to unexpected territories. I was very surprised at the risks I took from time to time, both musically and technically. But listening to the whole eight hours of musical evolution makes clear that each decision was a logical part of a larger unity, as it was mirrored in other later pieces…”

WORKS:

3 Gnossiennes
Le piège de Méduse, “7 Monkey Dances”: Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7
Pièces froides: Nos. 1 and 2
Fantaisie-valse
Descriptions automatiques: Nos. 2 and 3
Le fils des étoiles: Autre musique pour le Troisième Acte
Sports et divertissements: Nos. 1, 2, 5
Premier menuet
Harmonies Délectables
Gnossienne No. 4
4 Ogives: Ogive No. 4
3 Gymnopédies: Nos. 1 and 3
Chanson hongroise
Enfantillages pittoresques
Sonatine bureaucratique
Gnossienne No. 5
Leit-motiv du Panthée
Quartet No. 2
Avant-dernières pensées: No. 2. Aubade

DETAILS:

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Language: French
Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean
Booklet notes: English, French
Running time: 90 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)

Picture format:1080i High Definition
Sound format: PCM Stereo
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Language: French
Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean
Booklet notes: English, French
Running time: 90 mins
No. of Discs: 1 (BD 25)