(The) Erik Satie Show
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Composer or Director: Erik Satie
Label: Earthsounds
Magazine Review Date: 5/1993
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 63
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDEASM003

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(6) Gnossiennes |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Avant-dernières pensées |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Première pensée Rose + Croix |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
(Le) Fils des étoiles |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Chapitres tournés en tous sens |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
(3) Gymnopédies |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
(Le) Piège de Méduse |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Rêverie du pauvre |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Je te veux |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer John Lenehan, Piano |
Composer or Director: Erik Satie
Label: Classics
Magazine Review Date: 5/1993
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 77
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDCF512

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(3) Gymnopédies |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(Le) Piège de Méduse |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Poudre d'or |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Chapitres tournés en tous sens |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(Le) Piccadilly |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Prélude en tapisserie |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(3) Véritables préludes flasques |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Je te veux |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Sonatine bureaucratique |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(2) Pièces froides |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Sports et divertissements |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Vexations |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(Le) Fils des étoiles |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Composer or Director: Erik Satie
Label: Classics
Magazine Review Date: 5/1993
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: MCFC512

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(3) Gymnopédies |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(Le) Piège de Méduse |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Poudre d'or |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Chapitres tournés en tous sens |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(Le) Piccadilly |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Prélude en tapisserie |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(3) Véritables préludes flasques |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Je te veux |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Sonatine bureaucratique |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(2) Pièces froides |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Sports et divertissements |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Vexations |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
(Le) Fils des étoiles |
Erik Satie, Composer
Erik Satie, Composer Peter Dickinson, Piano |
Author: Christopher Headington
Dickinson's recital is one of the three recommended in the Good CD Guide and deservedly so. I thought highly of the playing and rich-sounding recording made in The Maltings, Snape, when I first heard it, and still do, so that I may recapitulate my earlier comments. Dickinson expertly conveys the unique blend of humour and gravity in his wide-ranging choice of pieces (there are 31 tracks in all), and the Trois Gymnopedies have a tender, dignified sadness, while there's panache and charm in the waltzes cafe-concert waltzes
That is hard on John Lenehan, whose recital for Earthsounds comes at full price and offers 14 minutes less music. Like Dickinson, he has written his own booklet essay, and also shows a penetrating insight into this wayward composer whose pawky laconicism may owe something to his Scottish mother, although she died when he was only six. The title of this disc refers to the Rosicrucian music of one work on it, the three preludes from the 'Chaldean pastoral' of 1891, Le fils des etoiles, that Satie possibly intended for other instruments but survives only as a piano score. As for the playing generally, Lenehan impresses me rather as Dickinson does, but also brings to the music a personal sensitivity and tenderness that is at once evident in the piece which opens his recital, the first of the Gnossiennes. What follows does not disappoint, either, although I'm not sure that it's a good idea to split the six Gnossiennes into two equal groups of which the second comes towards the end of the recital. Lenehan may have done this for fear of these rather similar pieces (which mostly resemble each other in mood, though not in notes) becoming monotonous; but that kind of 'monotony' is part of Satie and the Gymnopedies are more alike.
Inevitably, perhaps, they are on both of these discs; so are four other works. Yet despite the duplications, these are many things in Lenehan's recital that I would not want to be without, such as his moving playing of the Reverie du pauvre, his thoughtful account of Je te veux and the witty performance of Le Piege de Meduse. He's also crisper and more brilliant than Dickinson in the first of the three
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