Erik Satie: Piano Works

Reinbert de Leeuw (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B0000BWVDE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,733 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #28 in Music > Classical > Ballets & Dances > Baroque Dance Suites > Sarabande

Track Listings

1. Gnossiennes (6), for piano: No. 1

2. Gnossiennes (6), for piano: No. 2

3. Gnossiennes (6), for piano: No. 3

4. Gnossiennes (6), for piano: No. 4

5. Gnossiennes (6), for piano: No. 5

6. Gnossiennes (6), for piano: No. 6

7. Ogives (4), for piano: I

8. Ogives (4), for piano: II

9. Ogives (4), for piano: III

10. Ogives (4), for piano: IV

11. Petite ouverture à danser, for piano

12. Sarabandes (3) for piano: No. 1

13. Sarabandes (3) for piano: No. 2

14. Sarabandes (3) for piano: No. 3

15. Gymnopédies (3), for piano (also orchestrated by Debussy): No. 1

16. Gymnopédies (3), for piano (also orchestrated by Debussy): No. 2

17. Gymnopédies (3), for piano (also orchestrated by Debussy): No. 3

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUBLIME SATIE, August 2, 2005

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Melvyn M. Sobel "Melvyn M. Sobel" (Freeport, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Erik Satie: Piano Works (Audio CD)

In no way, shape or form has Satie sounded so metaphysical, so ethereal; in no way, shape or form does the composer's mystical visions receive a more rapt personal approach. In the hands of pianist de Leeuw, the music simply doesn't get more intimate than this. Time stops; the melancholic simplicity embraces; the nurturing repetition--- tres lent---soothes mind, body and spirit. Not a note is out of joint, or misjudged. This is the deepest essence of Satie revealed in a performance so ideal in timing, so uncannily concentrated and distilled, so beautifully recorded, and so fully in accord, as to be, ultimately, perfect.

[Running time: 66:49]

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Satie..., March 10, 2006

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Sébastien Melmoth (Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Erik Satie: Piano Works (Audio CD)

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Difficult to beat Pascal Rogé with Satie, but this disc is very fine indeed.

Pair this disc with Rogé's "After the Rain" After the Rain...The Soft Sounds of Erik Satie

Adequate faux-Magritte cover photo too.
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