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Bertrand Chamayou- Letter(S) to Erik Satie

SKU: 5054197696442
$150.00
Bertrand Chamayou- Letter(S) to Erik Satie
Bertrand Chamayou- Letter(S) to Erik Satie

Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely different prism," says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. "They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be." With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. Satie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following it's rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney - whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme. Chamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: "I thought we should do something a little different - and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano... Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.

Track List

  1. Cage: All Sides of the Small Stone for Erik Satie and (Secretly Given to Jim Tenney As a Koan)
  2. Satie: Gnossienne No1
  3. Cage: Prelude for Meditation
  4. Satie: Gymnopédie No1
  5. Excerpt Satie: Six Gnossiennes
  6. No2 Avec Étonnement
  7. No3 Lent
  8. Cage: A Room
  9. Cage: In a Landscape
  10. Satie: Rêverie de L'enfance de Pantagruel
  11. Satie: Véritables Préludes Flasques (3) Pour Un Chien
  12. No1 Sévère Réprimande
  13. No2 Seul À la Maison
  14. No3 on Joue
  15. Satie: Gymnopédie No2
  16. Satie: Sports Et Divertissements: No9 Le Bain de Mer
  17. Satie: Gnossienne No4
  18. Satie: Sports Et Divertissements: No2 la Balançoire
  19. Cage: Swinging
  20. Satie: Gymnopédie No3
  21. Satie: Gnossienne No5
  22. Satie: Nocturne No2 'Simplement'
  23. Satie: Sports Et Divertissements: No17 Le Tango Perpétuel
  24. Cage: Perpetual Tango
  25. Satie: Gnossienne No6
  26. Satie: Sarabande No3
  27. Satie: Songe-Creux
  28. Satie: Prelude Du Premier Acte - la Vocation
  29. Satie: Gnossienne No7
  30. Tenney: 3 Pages in the Shape of a Pear
  31. Cage: Dream
Format: New CD/Classical

Bertrand Chamayou- Letter(S) to Erik Satie

SKU: 5054197696442
$150.00

Release Date: 2.16.24

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Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely different prism," says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. "They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be." With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. Satie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following it's rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney - whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme. Chamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: "I thought we should do something a little different - and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano... Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.

Track List

  1. Cage: All Sides of the Small Stone for Erik Satie and (Secretly Given to Jim Tenney As a Koan)
  2. Satie: Gnossienne No1
  3. Cage: Prelude for Meditation
  4. Satie: Gymnopédie No1
  5. Excerpt Satie: Six Gnossiennes
  6. No2 Avec Étonnement
  7. No3 Lent
  8. Cage: A Room
  9. Cage: In a Landscape
  10. Satie: Rêverie de L'enfance de Pantagruel
  11. Satie: Véritables Préludes Flasques (3) Pour Un Chien
  12. No1 Sévère Réprimande
  13. No2 Seul À la Maison
  14. No3 on Joue
  15. Satie: Gymnopédie No2
  16. Satie: Sports Et Divertissements: No9 Le Bain de Mer
  17. Satie: Gnossienne No4
  18. Satie: Sports Et Divertissements: No2 la Balançoire
  19. Cage: Swinging
  20. Satie: Gymnopédie No3
  21. Satie: Gnossienne No5
  22. Satie: Nocturne No2 'Simplement'
  23. Satie: Sports Et Divertissements: No17 Le Tango Perpétuel
  24. Cage: Perpetual Tango
  25. Satie: Gnossienne No6
  26. Satie: Sarabande No3
  27. Satie: Songe-Creux
  28. Satie: Prelude Du Premier Acte - la Vocation
  29. Satie: Gnossienne No7
  30. Tenney: 3 Pages in the Shape of a Pear
  31. Cage: Dream
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