Alessandro Simonetto - Satie: Esoteric Works, Vol. 1 - Ogives, Sonneries de la Rose Croix, Préludes & Danses gothiques '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Ogives: No. 1, —
02. Ogives: No. 2, —
03. Ogives: No. 3, —
04. Ogives: No. 4, —
05. Leit-motiv du "Panthée"
06. Première pensée Rose Croix
07. Sonneries de la Rose Croix: No. 1, Air de l'ordre
08. Sonneries de la Rose Croix: No. 2, Air du grand maitre
09. Sonneries de la Rose Croix: No. 3, Air du grand prieur
10. Prélude du Nazaréen No. 1
11. Prélude du Nazaréen No. 2
12. Fête donnée par des Chevaliers Normands en l'honneur d'une jeune
demoiselle
13. Prélude d'Eginhard
14. Danses gothiques: No. 1, A l'occasion d'une grande peine
15. Danses gothiques: No. 2, Dans laquelle les Pères de la Très
Véritable et Très Sainte Église sont invoqués
16. Danses gothiques: No. 3, En faveur d'un malheureux
17. Danses gothiques: No. 4, A propos de Saint Bernard et de Sainte Lucie
18. Danses gothiques: No. 5, Pour les pauvres trépassés
19. Danses gothiques: No. 6, Où il est queston du pardon des injures recues
20. Danses gothiques: No. 7, Par pité pour les ivrognes, honteux,
débauchés, imparfaits, désagréables, et faussaires en tous
21. Danses gothiques: No. 8, En le haut honneur du vénéré Saint Michel,
le gracieux Archange
22. Danses gothiques: No. 9, Après avoir obtenu la remise de ses fautes
23. Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel

Erik Satie's opus is undoubtedly recognized, not only by the academic world, as
original and tremendously innovative. Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud and many others
took ideas and inspiration from Satie. It is not coincidence that he created new
prototypes of combinations and compositional inventions, often extemporaneous
and unpretentious, but which opened new horizons in classical music history.
Atonality, bitonality, but also what is now called 'Ambience' music,
increasingly fashionable, are all marks by Satie's genius. "It is almost
offensive to even compare the genius of a genuine composer like Satie to the
pragmatic and often cunning attitude of certain "modern" composers of today's
business." - wrote Alessandro Simonetto - "Satie is also much, much more other
just "minimal". His "Sports et Divertissement" - just to mention his main piano
collection - is a vademecum of new piano ideas, his best will ike the Preludes
for Chopin."
”Satie, you never had greater admirers than Ravel and myself; many of your
early works had a great influence on our writing. Your 'Prélude de La porte
héroïque du ciel' was to us a revelation, so original, so different from
that Wagnerian atmosphere which has surrounded us in late years. I liked your
Gymnopédies so much that I orchestrated two of them. You have some kind of
genius, or you have genius, period. Now, as a true friend may I warn you that
from time to time there is in your art a certain lack of form." -Claude Debussy
This album is part of the omnia recording of Satie's Piano Works re-recorded in
2019 (after the 'Early & Esoteric Works' 3-CD set, AE16019 for the label Aevea)
by Alessandro Simonetto. The recent recording is set in 4-CD's collecting all
early works and the works of the "spiritual period" (1887-1900). In the new
recording, in fact, new pieces were added such as the 'Deux Quators'
(unfinished) and the 'Messa du Pavres' in the original transcription by
Simonetto which maintains the sacred and organistic character intact.
The music of Satie included in these first 4 discs concerns the early works
(from 1887) and the esoteric works written up to 1900.

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