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

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 1, 2000
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SATIE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestre Symphonique Et Lyrique De Nancy
    • PERFORMER
      Klára, Jérôme, Körmendi, Kaltenbach
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 01, 2000
    • UPC
      730099668828
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8556688
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Lent et douloureux

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    2. No. 2. Lent et triste

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    3. No. 3. Lent et grave

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    4. Gnossienne No. 1

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    5. Gnossienne No. 2

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    6. Gnossienne No. 3

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    7. Gnossienne No. 4

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    8. Gnossienne No. 5

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    9. Gnossienne No. 6

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    10. Je te veux (Valse pour Piano)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    11. 1. Idylle 2. Aubade 3. Meditation

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    12. La Diva de l'Empire (Intermezzo Americain d'apres la celebre chanson)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    13. 1. Sa Taille - 2. Son Binoche - 3. Ses Jambes

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    14. Premiere Sarabande

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    15. Deuxieme Sarabande

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    16. Troisieme Sarabande

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    17. Premier Nocturne

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    18. Deuxieme Nocturne

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    19. Troisieme Nocturne

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    20. Reverie du Pauvre

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Klára Körmendi

    21. No. 1: Lent et douloureux (orch. Debussy)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Ensemble: Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy

      Conductor: Jérôme Kaltenbach

    22. No. 2: Lent et triste (orch. Roland-Manuel)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Ensemble: Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy

      Conductor: Jérôme Kaltenbach

    23. No. 3: Lent et grave (orch. Debussy)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Ensemble: Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy

      Conductor: Jérôme Kaltenbach


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