![]() ![]() "Vexations has become a cause celebre within the avant-garde, anticipating many of the arguments about the serious intentions, or otherwise, of John Cage's 4.33 by nearly 60 years. "It's not a question of Satie's relevance. "The only musician who had eyes" ( Man Ray) Or, you can order with the option of tracked shipping from our friends at Burning Shed (click here to order) To order please first select correct shipping option (UK, Europe or Rest of World) and then click on Add To Cart button below cover image. Trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoutéĪvailable as a 4xCD box set. The 4 full length CDs are housed in a clamshell box, which also includes an illustrated 32 page booklet featuring detailed liner notes by James Nice and Stephen Whittington.Ģ. Disc 4 also finds space for Satie's single-act, neo-Dada lyric comedy Le Piège de Médusa, comprising 'seven tiny dances for Jonah the Monkey', illustrated by Cubist painter Georges Braque., as well as his 'Christian ballet' Uspud from 1892. Also included are the experimental pieces Descriptions automatiques and Sports et divertissements, the latter a collection of 21 miniatures from 1914 published with illustrations by Charles Martin. Intended to be heard in the background, rather than actually listened to, these five disparate pieces have been cited as a conceptual precursor to the ambient, minimal, functional and serial works of Brian Eno, Paul Hindemith, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Solo piano performed by Bojan Gorisek.ĭisc 4 leads with Satie's often referenced (but seldom heard) musique d'ameublement (furniture music), written to order for various benefactors between 19. This third disc also includes The Puppets Are Dancing, written for the French Futurist dancer/poet Valentine de Saint-Point in 1913, and the ludic Trois valses distinguées du précieux dégouté ('Three Disgustingly Precious Waltzes'), a barbed swipe at rival composer Maurice Ravel, premiered at an exhibition of works by Picasso, Matisse and others in 1916. These include piano and orchestral versions of his scores for the celebrated 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924), as well as a seldom-heard organ 'diversion', The Statue Found (1923). Both are arrangements for solo piano.Ĭubist Works on Disc 3 offers four works composed by Satie between 19 for his collaborations with Pablo Picasso. ![]() Relâche dates from 1924, while Cinéma is Satie's music for an intermission film by René Clair. Also included is Satie's score for Entr'acte, Picabia's dazzling multi-media 'instantaneist' ballet. Performed on piano by Bojan Gorisek, this disc includes Trois morceaux en forme de poire, performed by Satie in 1923 at Tzara's notorious Soirée du Coeur à Barbe, as well as Ragtime Dada, an extract from the ballet Parade performed at Dada events staged by Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg in 1922. An enthusiastic Dada activist in Paris between 19, Satie collaborated extensively with Tzara, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, and wrote often in Picabia's journal 391. This meditative 70 minute recording features 40 repetitions of the motif, performed by Alan Marks on piano.ĭisc 2 is a collection of Dada-related works, including music used by Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters and René Clair. First performed under the supervision of John Cage in 1963, this radical, enigmatic, proto-Surrealist work is now recognised as a significant milestone in the avant-garde canon. Les Disques du Crepuscule presents a comprehensive 4 disc CD anthology by visionary French avant-garde composer Erik Satie, collecting together piano works associated with the Dada, Cubist and Surrealist art movements, as well as his celebrated musique d'ameublement (furniture music) written between 19.ĭisc 1 offers Satie's extraordinary Vexations, the score for which is just three lines long, yet a complete performance (840 repetitions) may last for anything between 14 and 28 hours. L' Arlésienne, Suite for Orchestra no.Erik Satie \ Art Works 1892-1924 26 « Les voici ! Voici la quadrille ! » (Chœur, les gamins, Escamillo, Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès) is based on: Carmen : Prélude part of: Carmen Suite no. « Les voici ! Voici la quadrille ! ») (on ) composer: Georges Bizet ( composer) is based on: Carmen : Acte IV. ![]() Allegro giocoso ( theme from Carmen: Prelude to Act I and Carmen: Act IV. Allegro giocoso – Andante moderato (on ) composer: Georges Bizet ( composer) part of: Carmen Suite no. Producer: Walter Legge ( British classical record producer, 1906-1979) orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra ( London orchestra, known as New Philharmonia Orchestra from 1964-1976) (on ) conductor: Herbert von Karajan ( conductor) (on ) balance engineer: Douglas Larter recorded at: Kingsway Hall in London ( Greater London, which includes the City of London), England, United Kingdom (on ) recording of: Carmen Suite no. ![]()
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