Erik Satie: Oeuvres pour piano, Parade Christoph Deluze, Orchestre National de France & Manuel Rosenthal

• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925): Petite Ouverture à danser:
• 1 Satie: Petite Ouverture à danser: Petite ouverture à danser 01:16
• Gnossienne No. 1:
• 2 Satie: Gnossienne No. 1 03:18
• Cinq grimaces pour "Le songe d'une nuit d'été":
• 3 Satie: Cinq grimaces pour "Le songe d'une nuit d'été": I. Préambule 00:46
• 4 Satie: Cinq grimaces pour "Le songe d'une nuit d'été": II. Coquecigrue 00:47
• 5 Satie: Cinq grimaces pour "Le songe d'une nuit d'été": III. Chasse 00:38
• 6 Satie: Cinq grimaces pour "Le songe d'une nuit d'été": IV. Fanfaronnade 00:21
• 7 Satie: Cinq grimaces pour "Le songe d'une nuit d'été": V. Retraite. Pour sortir 01:08
• Gymnopédie No. 1:
• 8 Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1 03:21
• Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois:
• 9 Satie: Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: I. Tyrolienne turque 01:25
• 10 Satie: Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: II. Danse maigre 01:31
• 11 Satie: Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois: III. Españaña 01:21
• Gnossienne No. 2:
• 12 Satie: Gnossienne No. 2 01:44
• Les 3 valses distinguées du précieux dégouté:
• 13 Satie: Les 3 valses distinguées du précieux dégouté: I. Sa taille 00:52
• 14 Satie: Les 3 valses distinguées du précieux dégouté: II. Son binocle 01:03
• 15 Satie: Les 3 valses distinguées du précieux dégouté: III. Ses jambes 00:42
• Première pensée Rose-Croix:
• 16 Satie: Première pensée Rose-Croix 00:53
• La belle Excentrique:
• 17 Satie: La belle Excentrique: II. Marche franco-lunaire 02:11
• Gymnopédie No. 2:
• 18 Satie: Gymnopédie No. 2 02:15
• Gnossienne No. 7:
• 19 Satie: Gnossienne No. 7 02:40
• La belle Excentrique:
• 20 Satie: La belle Excentrique: III. Valse du mystérieux baiser dans l'œil 02:19
• Gnossienne No. 3:
• 21 Satie: Gnossienne No. 3 02:38
• Je te veux:
• 22 Satie: Je te veux 04:43
• Pièces froides:
• 23 Satie: Pièces froides: Airs à faire fuir I 02:17
• 24 Satie: Pièces froides: Airs à faire fuir II 01:16
• 25 Satie: Pièces froides: Airs à faire fuir III 02:23
• Gnossienne No. 4:
• 26 Satie: Gnossienne No. 4 02:24
• Gnossienne No. 5:
• 27 Satie: Gnossienne No. 5 02:27
• La Diva de l'Empire:
• 28 Satie: La Diva de l'Empire 02:16
• Troisième Sarabande:
• 29 Satie: Troisième Sarabande 04:50
• Descriptions automatiques:
• 30 Satie: Descriptions automatiques: I. Sur un vaisseau 01:36
• 31 Satie: Descriptions automatiques: II. Sur une lanterne 01:49
• 32 Satie: Descriptions automatiques: III. Sur un casque 01:00
• Gymnopédie No. 3:
• 33 Satie: Gymnopédie No. 3 02:29
• Parade, musique de ballet pour orchestre:
• 34 Satie: Parade, musique de ballet pour orchestre: Choral. Prélude du rideau rouge - I. Presdigitateur chinois - II. Petite Fille américaine - III. Acrobates 13:17
• Parade, musique de ballet pour orchestre:
• 35 Satie: Parade, musique de ballet pour orchestre: Final. Suite au Prélude du rideau rouge 02:57
• Total Runtime 01:18:53

Info for Erik Satie: Oeuvres pour piano, Parade

'Erik Satie's music is singular in numerous respects, in particular its simplicity of harmony and repetitions. The composer's occasionally minimalist writing seems to stem from a desire for music that was airier and easier to 'digest' at a time when works calling for large forces and playing times that were sometimes very long [Wagner operas, perhaps] were very much in fashion. Hence a return to a certain simplicity and the search for elementary emotion. I hope that listening to this disc will be both a caress for the soul and a spark for the mind! As Satie would say in his prologue to the 'Descriptions automatiques': 'it is quite obvious that the flattened, the insignificant and the bloated will take no pleasure here. May they swallow their beards, may they dance on their belly.'' [from the booklet note by Christoph Deluze] Christoph Deluze's selection of Satie's eclectic piano music is followed by 'Parade' in a recording from 1959. 'Astonish me', Diaghilev reputedly said to Cocteau one evening. In 1915 the latter would bring together the painter Picasso, the dancer/choreographer Massine, and Satie for the music of this ballet. The premiere took place on 18 May 1917 at the Théatre du Châtelet and provoked a real scandal, comparable to that of 'The Rite of Spring', four years earlier.

Christoph Deluze, piano
Orchestre National de France
Manuel Rosenthal, conductor

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Christoph Deluze
began his first musical studies at the Neuchâtel conservatory as a pupil of Dinu Lipatti. He then went to the Guild HallSchool of Music of London in the piano class of E. Philipp. During this period he was one of the few pianists who was able to work with Shura Cherkassky.

His further studies with Dagobert Buchholz in Vienna were very important for his future musical development. As Bucholz had met and knew Rachmaninoff, Katchaturian, Chostakovich as well as, of course, most major interpreters of Russian music, he was able to transmit to Deluze the interest and appropriate emotions for an enlightened understanding of the Russian repertoire. Dagobert BUCHHOLZ was also the friend of Vladimir SOFRONITSKY, son-in-law of Alexander SCRIABIN and one of the legendary interpreters of this composer. Christoph DELUZE has directly received a musical heritage of the very particular way SCRIABIN interpreted these works (not always annotated in the partitions).

He received awards at several international competitions and played in many major European concert halls: London, Barcelona (Teatro del Liceo), Vienna, Krakow, Brussels, Geneva (Victoria Hall), Minsk and Belgrade. He has also given concerts in Greece and India. He participated five times in the music festival “La Schubertiade” of the Radio Suisse Romande, and several concerts were broadcast live.

In 2000 he made a tour of concerts in Switzerland with the Fribourg Symphony Orchestra, with a CD-live (Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Tchaikovsky). In 2007 he has been invited by the Philarmonia of Bielorussia for the Festival (“Spring in Minsk”) with a standing ovation for his interpretation of Scriabin.

Since then he regularly worked with the clarinetist and conductor Pierre GACHOUD, also promoter of the OSF orchestra. This conductor is an expert of the Russian music and has undoubtedly advanced Christoph DELUZE in this repertoire. (He is in fact the musical director of most of his recordings.)

With Stephane CHARLES (pianist and organizer of cultural events) Christoph DELUZE has initiated several multicultural events in which he also participated as musician. Around a theme (water, Russia, liberty) several performers express themselves through music, philosophy, painting, poetry, sculpture and even science in the spirit that different forms of artistic expression, literature and philosophy are complementary and universal (as SCRIABIN had expressed in the beginning of the 20 th century). Notable participants at these multicultural events have been the philosopher Alexandre JOLLIEN , the painters and sculptors Ronald DUPONT and Françoise LANDOWSKY.

Christoph Deluze has played on radio and TV programs in Europe, Australia, Japan and U.S: Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2, DRS 2, France Musique, SWR 3 Köln, Radio Television Belge Musique 3, Klassik Heute, VRT, Concertzender Neederlands, VARA, WGBH Boston, Radio-TV of Bielorussia, Medici-TV and the BBC.

Booklet for Erik Satie: Oeuvres pour piano, Parade