‘He was certainly the oddest person I’ve ever known,’ said Stravinsky. Stately and serene, Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies offer music of radical simplicity and transcendent beauty, from a composer who ...

Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No ...

But, no. Rather than take Vex­ations as a joke, posterity’s judgment has been to take it very seriously indeed. On the strength of this tiny-yet-huge piece, Satie has been hailed as a spiritual ...

Erik Satie: Complete Piano Music (Aldo Ciccolini, pianist; EMI). There aren`t many pianists today who would care to record Satie`s complete piano music, nor are there many who could do it justice.

The shō is a Japanese wind instrument long associated with traditional court music. Looking like a bundle of sticks, its 17 pipes each plays a distinct pitch. Its sound is something else, the shō’s ...

This is starting to look like the year of Erik Satie. How else could there be two magnificent albums dedicated to his music? The first was Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen's The Satie Project (Daywood ...

What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a good start. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim A century after the ...