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The Best Of Erik Satie / Körmendi, Kaltenbach, Nancy So

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Details

Composer
SATIE
Artist
Klára, Jérôme, Körmendi, Kaltenbach
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
May 01, 2000
Catalog #
8556688
UPC
730099668828

About

For me, the real "Best of Satie" would include at least excerpts from the opera Socrate and the ballet Parade. But this is a nice overview of the eccentric composer's keyboard gems, culled from Klára Körmendi's excellent Satie cycle for Naxos. Many pianists take Satie's wistful melodic sensibility as license to let the music wallow and droop. Körmendi will have none of that. Her sensitive, expertly colored playing brings uncommon, refreshing urgency to the first three Nocturnes, the well-worn Gymnopédies, and all six Gnossiennes. Moreover, she has a way of making the composer's idiosyncratic expressive indications audible without hitting listeners over the head. The disc concludes with the Gymnopédies in their familiar orchestrations by Debussy (Nos. 1 & 3) and Roland-Manuel (No. 2). The French orchestra plays rather patchily in the first but redeems itself with some very nice playing in the other two. No. 3 features a lovely oboe soloist surrounded by silvery, reed-organ-like high strings. If you're looking for a Satie piano music start-up kit, this is the one. --Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Lent et douloureux 02:39
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Lent et douloureux
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  2. 2 No. 2. Lent et triste 02:13
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Lent et triste
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  3. 3 No. 3. Lent et grave 02:04
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Lent et grave
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  4. 4 Gnossienne No. 1 03:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    Gnossienne No. 1
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  5. 5 Gnossienne No. 2 01:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    Gnossienne No. 2
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  6. 6 Gnossienne No. 3 02:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    Gnossienne No. 3
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  7. 7 Gnossienne No. 4 02:56
    Track
    7
    Title
    Gnossienne No. 4
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  8. 8 Gnossienne No. 5 02:29
    Track
    8
    Title
    Gnossienne No. 5
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  9. 9 Gnossienne No. 6 01:46
    Track
    9
    Title
    Gnossienne No. 6
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  10. 10 Je te veux (Valse pour Piano) 04:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    Je te veux (Valse pour Piano)
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  11. 11 1. Idylle 2. Aubade 3. Meditation 03:33
    Track
    11
    Title
    1. Idylle 2. Aubade 3. Meditation
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  12. 12 La Diva de l'Empire (Intermezzo Americain d'apres la celebre chanson) 02:33
    Track
    12
    Title
    La Diva de l'Empire (Intermezzo Americain d'apres la celebre chanson)
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  13. 13 1. Sa Taille - 2. Son Binoche - 3. Ses Jambes 03:55
    Track
    13
    Title
    1. Sa Taille - 2. Son Binoche - 3. Ses Jambes
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  14. 14 Premiere Sarabande 04:30
    Track
    14
    Title
    Premiere Sarabande
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  15. 15 Deuxieme Sarabande 04:24
    Track
    15
    Title
    Deuxieme Sarabande
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  16. 16 Troisieme Sarabande 03:52
    Track
    16
    Title
    Troisieme Sarabande
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  17. 17 Premier Nocturne 02:29
    Track
    17
    Title
    Premier Nocturne
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  18. 18 Deuxieme Nocturne 01:49
    Track
    18
    Title
    Deuxieme Nocturne
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  19. 19 Troisieme Nocturne 02:30
    Track
    19
    Title
    Troisieme Nocturne
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  20. 20 Reverie du Pauvre 04:14
    Track
    20
    Title
    Reverie du Pauvre
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Performer
    Klára Körmendi
  21. 21 No. 1: Lent et douloureux (orch. Debussy) 04:03
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 1: Lent et douloureux (orch. Debussy)
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
    Conductor
    Jérôme Kaltenbach
  22. 22 No. 2: Lent et triste (orch. Roland-Manuel) 02:43
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 2: Lent et triste (orch. Roland-Manuel)
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
    Conductor
    Jérôme Kaltenbach
  23. 23 No. 3: Lent et grave (orch. Debussy) 02:15
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 3: Lent et grave (orch. Debussy)
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Erik Satie
    Ensemble
    Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
    Conductor
    Jérôme Kaltenbach