Letter(s) to Erik Satie Bertrand Chamayou

• John Cage (1912 - 1992):
• 1 Cage: All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie 03:37
• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925):
• 2 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent 03:02
• John Cage:
• 3 Cage: Prelude for Meditation 01:20
• Erik Satie:
• 4 Satie: 3 Gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux 02:57
• 5 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 2, Avec étonnement 02:02
• 6 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent 02:45
• John Cage:
• 7 Cage: A Room 01:16
• 8 Cage: In a Landscape 08:00
• Erik Satie:
• 9 Satie: 3 Petites pièces montées: No. 1, De l'enfance de Pantagruel. Rêverie 01:14
• 10 Satie: 3 Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien): No. 1, Sévère réprimande 00:39
• 11 Satie: 3 Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien): No. 2, Seul à la maison 00:58
• 12 Satie: 3 Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien): No. 3, On joue 00:49
• 13 Satie: 3 Gymnopédies: No. 2, Lent et triste 02:41
• 14 Satie: Sports et divertissements: No. 9, Le bain de mer 00:28
• 15 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent 02:08
• 16 Satie: Sports et divertissements: No. 2, La balançoire 00:44
• John Cage:
• 17 Cage: Swinging 00:45
• Erik Satie:
• 18 Satie: Gymnopédies: No. 3, Lent et grave 02:30
• 19 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 5, Modéré 02:47
• 20 Satie: 5 Nocturnes: No. 2, Simplement 01:47
• 21 Satie: Sports et divertissements: No. 17, Le tango perpétuel 02:07
• John Cage:
• 22 Cage: Perpetual Tango 01:32
• Erik Satie:
• 23 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse 01:50
• 24 Satie: 3 Sarabandes: No. 3 in B-Flat Minor 04:26
• 25 Satie: 6 Pièces de la période 1906-1913: No. 6, Songe-creux 01:44
• 26 Satie: Le fils des étoiles: Prélude du premier acte. La vocation 03:37
• 27 Satie: Gnossienne No. 7 02:25
• James Tenney (1934 - 2006):
• 28 Tenney: Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (In Celebration of Erik Satie) 00:32
• John Cage:
• 29 Cage: Dream 09:10
• Total Runtime 01:09:52

Info for Letter(s) to Erik Satie

“Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely different prism,” says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. “They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be.”

With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration.

Satie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following its rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney – whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme.

Chamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: “I thought we should do something a little different – and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano … Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.”

Bertrand Chamayou, piano

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