Despite its technical simplicity, Erik Satie's piano music can be performed in many ways. The compositions heard here marked early appearances of what would become major trends in music of the 20th century, and the emphasis can be placed in various places. Recorded in 1990 (and reissued as an "essential masterwork" in 2009), this selection of Satie pieces touches on what pianist Peter Dickinson called the composer's "mystical, comic, and popular veins." It was an early release in what may now be called a Satie revival, and ...
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Despite its technical simplicity, Erik Satie's piano music can be performed in many ways. The compositions heard here marked early appearances of what would become major trends in music of the 20th century, and the emphasis can be placed in various places. Recorded in 1990 (and reissued as an "essential masterwork" in 2009), this selection of Satie pieces touches on what pianist Peter Dickinson called the composer's "mystical, comic, and popular veins." It was an early release in what may now be called a Satie revival, and even if Dickinson does better with some of these "veins" than with others, the album served a lot of listeners as an introduction to Satie and is still worth considering for that purpose, especially at a budget price. Dickinson is on solid ground with the mystical works, represented here by Le fils des étoiles (1901), a work that sprang from Satie's association with the Rosicrucian order. His meditative yet forward-moving style results in an exceptional performance of this work, and...
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