Satie Surprises

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Label
OUR Recordings
Release Date
June 6, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Erik Satie
    • PERFORMER
      Christina Bjorkoe
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 06, 2025
    • UPC
      0636943692929
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8226929
    • LABEL
      OUR Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. Petite ouverture à danser

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    2. Musiques intimes et secretes: III. Facheux exemple

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    3. 6 Pieces for Solo Piano: Effronterie

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    4. No. 1. Airs à faire fuir

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    5. No. 2. Danses de travers

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    6. No. 2. Danses de travers: 3. Encore

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    7. Les 3 valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté: No. 2. Son binocle

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    8. 6 Pieces for Solo Piano: Profondeur. Avec calme

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    9. No. 1. Idylle

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    10. No. 2. Aubade

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    11. No. 3. Méditation

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    12. No. 1. Doux et calme

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    13. No. 2. —

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    14. No. 3. Un peu mouvementé

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    15. Musiques intimes et secretes: II. Froide songerie

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    16. 6 Pieces for Solo Piano: Prelude canin. Lent

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    17. I. —

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    18. II. —

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    19. La Porte héroïque du ciel: Prélude

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    20. 6 Pieces for Solo Piano: Songe creux. Tres calme

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    21. Caresse

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    22. Poesie. Andante

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    23. Desespoir agreable. Calme

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    24. Musiques intimes et secretes: I. Nostalgie

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    25. Prelude d'Eginhardt

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    26. 1er Prelude de Nazareen

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe

    27. 2e Prelude du Nazareen

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Christina Bjørkøe


Erik Satie's influence, once barely acknowledged, has now permeated nearly every corner of modern music. Best known for the sensual simplicity of his tender Gymnopedies, such seeming naivety masked a colorful, and frequently, complex life and artistic vision. The experimental composer John Cage famously called Satie "indispensable," citing him as a profound inspiration for his own groundbreaking work. Satie's eccentricities were part of his charm, and this whimsy often seeped into his work. In Embryons desseches (Dried Embryos), for instance, he included absurd instructions in the score, phrases like "on the tip of your tongue" or "open your head," as well as giving his works absurd titles like Effronterie and Prelude canin, gleefully written to deflate the precious seriousness of classical music traditions. In contrast, there are works like Pieces froides (1897) that anticipate the rhythmic minimalism of Philip Glass and his visionary 5 Nocturnes (1919), the final series of his cyclically organized piano pieces composed using a highly complex system rigorously guiding the interplay of melody (right hand) and harmonic accompaniment (left hand). Even today, there are many surprises to be discovered in Satie's oeuvre. This specially curated program is brilliantly realized by Christina Bjorkoe, one of Denmark's leading musicians. Much in demand as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with symphony orchestras, ClassicsToday praised Bjorkoe for her dynamism and passion. Her extensive discography includes critically acclaimed recordings of works spanning the piano repertoire from Beethoven to Borup-Jorgensen.