Erik Satie S/D

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Not adding anything new, but I've got a CD of Ciccolini performances; chock full of smashing good stuff (and great titles, as well). Where should I go from there?

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

i have this sinking feeling reading this thread that i'm about to spend a lot of money

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Akira Rabelais's renditions of the G's & G's are pretty good too.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

i am listening to the de leeuw right now, it has just arrived in the mail, it is lovely.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

two additional favorites:

Francis Poulenc plays the music of Satie and Poulenc -- recorded in 1950, one of the earliest available recordings, though I think this was a disc you had to look for, not as well distributed as the later Ciccolini's on Angel. 42 minutes, great fidelity, Poulenc understands. Side 1 is Satie, side 2 is Poulenc & both are great.

Camarata did three moog + orchestra Satie records, velvet gentleman, through the looking glass and the electronic spirit of erik satie. the last one is the best, the cartoon moog solos playing the lead melodies, mixed just as loud as the entire orchestra, the sound makes you blink. Strange spoken word interjections, a Satie impersonator introducing the pieces, it's a great record

(& in my last post, I meant Jack not Scott, comedy)

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

closing tag

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

cool milton i was just about to ask about the poulenc one!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

I was so used to the faster pace that the first time I heard it I felt like yelling 'wake up and play' but by the end of the 1st disc I was happily chilled

i was used to it too except when i got the deleeuw version i realized that the faster pace was a mistake and here was how his pieces should've been played all along.

― VVVVVVVVVVV (eman), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

Look for the Debussy Orchestrations of the Gymnopedies and Gnossienes--very beautiful. Just start with the music for piano, there's a good CD that has a Miro painting on the cover, can't remember the pianist...

― Iago Galdston (Iago), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dumboclaat:

here's the lp w/ the Furniture Music

and, i just found mp3s here:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/satie_conceptual.html

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

well I now have the LTM reissue (from Marks' 1987 performance) in my possession -- however it is 1 CD, 40 repetitions and 70 minutes. As Marks says in the notes, "it is just an introduction".

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

there's a good CD that has a Miro painting on the cover, can't remember the pianist...

that's the pascal roge

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 05:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dumboclaat:
here's the lp w/ the Furniture Music
and, i just found mp3s here:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(messed my login up) thx nerve pylon, been wanting to hear this stuff for years and have never been able them on any cd/record. "ahead of their time" is an understatement.

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

yep--they're great. i looked for years for that lp, finally found it on eBay, it's not in very good shape (plus the postage from france!)--and now, there they are on the web. go figure!

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

there wouldn't be a cd version somewhere? course not

i forgot to add, that version of "cinema" is far better than other recordings i've heard. it's a funny piece. kinda philip glass-y (only not annoying)

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 29 September 2006 01:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

I really do seem to be accumulating a Satie collection almost without trying -- LTM's just sent their newest, Avant-dernières pensées, which is subtitled 'Selected Piano Works Vol. 1,' so presumably there's more on the way. Tracklisting:

Trois Gymnopédies
Gnossiennes 1-7
Je te veux
Caresse
Musiques intimes et secretes
Embryons desséchés
Le Piège de Méduse
Descriptions automatiques
Sports et divertissements
Avant-dernières pensées

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2007 02:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

I was also able to snag a compilation of the Ciccolini recordings on Angel via the Tower implosion last year, so that's been handy for a bit of contrast.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2007 02:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

I would recommend his published journals, A Mammal's Notebook

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 29 June 2007 02:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

i have the Yitkin Seow recordings on Hyperion. Really, really good.

― poortheatre, Friday, 29 June 2007 05:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

how is that LTM disc, Ned? I'm a little afraid of the performer Goran Borisek, but have only heard other disc disc of his.

electronic spirit of erik satie by camarata, utter classic, full chamber orchestra with the leads played by loud moog. if you like perrey & kingsley and you like satie, you already love this record

― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

correction Bojan Gorisek

gettin my balkans confused

― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Bojan Gorisek recorded the complete piano works of Satie for a label called Audiophile Classics that were released as a 10-CD box set and as individual volumes (I have two of the individual CDs). I suppose the LTM releases are reissues of some of those recordings. The ones I have are not bad - it's nice to hear some of the less familiar Satie pieces, including ones for voice and piano that are more in a cabaret-influenced style.

― o. nate, Friday, 29 June 2007 21:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

There's still a link to some of them from the Amazon.uk page:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_m_h_/203-6608162-3103925?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=satie+audiophile&Go.x=14&Go.y=11

I have volumes 5 and 9.

― o. nate, Friday, 29 June 2007 21:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 08:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

@ 4:33-5:28

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 08:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

behave yourselves, the monkeys are watching

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

want to start subversive public art campaign using erik satie performance instructions

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

oooooh i love Binaryland!

― zappi, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

How I found Erik Satie:

― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://pitchfork.com/news/43980-fucked-up-tokyo-police-club-members-to-do-smells-like-teen-spirit-144-times/

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

That family fodder is really good. I like the rhythm at the start of it, when it's just piano.

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

I need to get that box you guys talk about upthread. I only have a one-disc piano thing. It's good and long, but too much of it is of those later parodies.

― bamcquern, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

full of subtlety, if you believe me

― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

'Apply yourself to renunciation'
'Behave yourself, please: a monkey is watching you'
'Coldly'
'Do not speak'
'Even duller if you can '

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

'From a distance, bored'

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

satie-inspired desserts: http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm7-10/Desserts-en.html

― geeta, Friday, 17 February 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

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