大象传媒

Donald Macleod explores five aspects of Satie. Today, his penchant for composing in threes, which has been likened to presenting three different views of the same sculpture.

Composers who write 鈥榮uites鈥� tend to go for variety of tempo, texture and so on. One of Satie鈥檚 innovations was the mini-suite of three similar movements, of which the composer observed: 鈥淚 invent an absolutely new form. The piece I wrote seems good to me. But might that not just be luck? If I compose a second and a third piece along the same lines but with different melodic ideas, and if these pieces are still good, then the form I have invented is good in itself.鈥�

Les trois valses distingu茅es du pr茅cieux d茅go没t茅
1. Sa taille 鈥� pas vite
2. Son binocle 鈥� tr猫s lent, s鈥檌l vous pl芒it
3. Ses jambes 鈥� d茅termin茅
Joanna MacGregor, piano

Pi猫ces froides
I. Airs 脿 faire fuir
1. D鈥檜ne mani猫re tr猫s particuli猫re
2. Modestemente
3. S鈥檌nviter
II. Danses de travers
1. En y regardant 脿 deux fois
2. Passer
3. Encore
Roland P枚ntinen, piano

Choses vues 脿 droite et 脿 gauche {sans lunettes}
1. Choral hypocrite
2. Fugue 脿 t芒tons
3. Fantaisie musculaire
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Isabelle Faust, violin

Trois Gnossiennes
Noriko Ogawa, piano

Trois m茅lodies
1. La statue de bronze
2. Daph茅n茅o
3. Le chapelier
R茅gine Crespin, mezzo soprano
Philippe Entremont, piano

Trois Morceaux en forme de poire, for piano 4 hands
1. Mani猫re de commencement, allez mod茅r茅ment
2. Prolongation du m锚me, au pas
3. Morceaux 1, lentement
4. Morceaux 2, en lev茅
5. Morceaux 3, brutal
6. En plus, calme
7. Redite, dans le lent
Anne Queff茅lec, Catherine Collard

Produced by Chris Barstow