On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 Ren8sance@aol.com wrote:
quoted 2 lines So, can anyone recommend a good Satie album for someone who is curious about> So, can anyone recommend a good Satie album for someone who is curious about
> his music?
Well, I'd just go into a classical music store and look for the Satie
section (ask, cuz they might have a seperate 'modern' section). There
are two guys (whose name spellings escape me): an Italian pianist and a
Japanese pianist. The Italian pianist's interpretation is better on the
slow/sad/quiet peices, and the Japanese pianist's versions of the
faster/funnier stuff are best. The Japanese pianist's work is from
the 70's/80's and is probably easiest to find on CD, whereas the other
guy's work is on vinyl and has the Satie drawing (by Picasso!) on the
covers of all of them. I avoid any orchestral interpretations
completely, myself, as the peices are truly most intense (weird, quiet,
demented, goofy) on a lonely piano.
That reminds me, I distinctly heard some Satie-ish attitude on some '81
Colin Newman & Dome records last night.
David Chandler - chandler@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us (503)301-3011
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