The title Satie & Compagnie (Satie & Company) will give prospective buyers an idea of his/her reactions to the little release by veteran pianist Anne Queffélec. Are Debussy and Ravel and the host of lesser composers who followed them part of Satie's "company?" Queffélec has recorded Satie before, to the acclaim of those who value the limpid, artless Satie of the Gymnopédies, for she delivers smoothly hypnotic, almost static readings of those. She has less to offer those who value the quirky Satie, represented here most ...
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The title Satie & Compagnie (Satie & Company) will give prospective buyers an idea of his/her reactions to the little release by veteran pianist Anne Queffélec. Are Debussy and Ravel and the host of lesser composers who followed them part of Satie's "company?" Queffélec has recorded Satie before, to the acclaim of those who value the limpid, artless Satie of the Gymnopédies, for she delivers smoothly hypnotic, almost static readings of those. She has less to offer those who value the quirky Satie, represented here most fully by the Valse du mystérieux baiser dans l'oeil (Waltz of the Mysterious Kiss in the Eye, track 10), but, many would argue, never really absent in Satie's music. Satie, it is true, idolized Debussy, but his music reflected the anxiety of influence and went its own way. Here it is paired not only with Debussy and Ravel but with a host of lesser-known composers who may, for many buyers, be a prime attraction: Déodat de Séverac (whose Ou l'on entend une vielle boîte à musique, Where One...
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Add this copy of Satie & Compagnie to cart. $18.98, fair condition, Sold by New England Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Greenfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Mirare.
Add this copy of Satie & Compagnie to cart. $18.98, Sold by New England Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Greenfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Mirare.
