- Audio CD (Jan 23 1992)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Import
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B000002SBP
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Oeuvres Pour Piano: Gymnopedie I | |||
| 2. Oeuvres Pour Piano: Gymnopedie II | |||
| 3. Oeuvres Pour Piano: Gymnopedie III | |||
| 4. Oeuvres Pour Piano: Les Trois Valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté I: Sa taille | |||
| 5. Oeuvres Pour Piano: II: Son binocle | |||
| 6. Oeuvres Pour Piano: III: Ses jambes | |||
| 7. Oeuvres Pour Piano: Trois Gnossiennes: I Lent | |||
| 8. Oeuvres Pour Piano: II Avec étonnement | |||
| 9. Oeuvres Pour Piano: III Lent | |||
| 10. Oeuvres Pour Piano: Trois Gnossiennes: IV Lent | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Jack In The Box: Prelude | |||
| 2. Jack In The Box: Entracte | |||
| 3. Jack In The Box: Final | |||
| 4. Sports et Divertissements: Choral inappetissant | |||
| 5. Sports et Divertissements: La Balançoire | |||
| 6. Sports et Divertissements: La Chasse | |||
| 7. Sports et Divertissements: La Comédie italienne | |||
| 8. Sports et Divertissements: Le Réveil de la Mariée | |||
| 9. Sports et Divertissements: Colin-Maillard | |||
| 10. Sports et Divertissements: La Pêche | |||
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Product Description
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It's simple: in his various realizations of the piano music of Erik Satie, Aldo Ciccolini set a standard that has yet to be bettered. This compilation, drawn from recordings made between 1966 and 1971, is consequently the best of the best. Ciccolini always played Satie's music as though it had been written by Claude Debussy, not by some cheap charlatan or uneducated primitive (which, to an extent that is still debatable, Satie was). The result is that these seemingly simple piano pieces acquire a tonal allure that is as surprising as it is undeniable. They possess an understated sophistication that points directly toward Ravel and Poulenc, at the same time providing an opening to the minimalist aesthetic of the later 20th century. Ciccolini's playing is pliant and graceful, and under his fingers the music seems to breathe and come alive. What more could a composer or a listener want? --Ted Libbey
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Piano Works Ciccolini (Audio CD)
If you're reading this, you've already heard Satie's music, so I needn't to go into that. I do want to say that this is the only recording of Satie that is worth hearing. Ciccolini is the only foot that will fit the Satie glass slipper. Don't waste your money on the ugly step-sisters.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic,
By DigDug (Somewhere Here) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Piano Works Ciccolini (Audio CD)
Satie was a genius. Noone I know of has been able to squeeze so much depth into compositions so "simple", although Aphex Twin (a completely different genre, has come close). I've always been drawn to classical music, but grew quickly tired of the repetitive structures and rigid arrangements - perhaps my ignorance shows itself, but it seems as if much classical music allowed for only so much creativity within certain well-defined walls. Perhaps this rigidity is what, as I've read above, Satie was trying to buck against with outlandish titles and a distinctly un-orthodox musical style.Aldo does a fantastic job with Satie. I'd originally bought a Naxos compilation after hearing Satie at a friend's place, and was disappointed to find a very jarring, mechanical performance of the pieces. Perhaps, this may be how Satie intended it, but Aldo's work here breath of such warmth and brings out such depth, completely missing in the other CD collection. Satie is one of those essential works that NEED to be in your collection, and Aldo apparently is the only one who can do them right.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't forget Satie was an Anti-Romantic,
By Eduardo Pablo Fabbian (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Piano Works Ciccolini (Audio CD)
No one could deny that setting every disperse music in a unique album is a remarkable job. But I didn't like much the approach of Ciccolini, which I knew around 1975 while getting borrowed the vinyl LPs in the Embassy of France in Buenos Aires. Now I'd like to explain to whom it may concern why do I feel that way.Satie was an anti-romantic composer, at the point of creating the "furniture-music" (musique d'ameublement) which refuses that music could be so expressive as romantics wanted. Other ones clasifies him as a "Surrealist" composer (anti-romantic movement too), but there are no signs of dreams of unconsciousness through his work. Since that point of view you could play Satie's music anyway but expressively. Satie wasn't Debussy, besides the fact that they knew personally and admire each other. Could you play Debussy in a plain style without damage?. I don't think so, because Satie was farther of expressive tradition than Debussy: we can say that Debussy is a spirit of the XIX Century while Satie is a precursor of the XXth. Remember his own words: "I came to the world too young in a time too old". The best performance I heard of the piano work of our composer was in charge of Jacques Fevrier on the excelent album called "Monsieur Erik Satie", with such a "sideman" as another member of the group of six as Georges Auric for the 4 hands pieces. I wave goodbye with a great embrace to all Satie's fans.
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