An enigma of classical music, Erik Satie is still mysterious 150 years after his birth. The composer who declared himself ‘not fond of jokes,’ is regarded as one of the most eccentric and tricky composers of Western Music. London-based pianist Noriko Ogawa presents this first album of Satie’s piano works. In addition to a successful touring and recording career, Ogawa is also a professor at the Guildhall School of music and Drama in London, and is a visiting professor at the Tokyo College of Music. The instrument on which Noriko Ogawa performs these works is an 1890 Erard grand piano, built in the same year that Satie’s Gnossienne No. 1 was composed.