A timeless television theme tune, ‘Satie-fied’, in a sublime rendition for solo piano courtesy of Classic FM presenter, Tim Lihoreau. The popular British sitcom Blackadder takes its cast of ...
Today I heard–for the thousandth time– Satie’s famous solo piano tryptic 3 Gymopedies—the title refers to an ancient Spartan dance performed by naked men. Satie was an eccentric who gave his ...
Pianist Scott Dunn delivers a 2012 performance of Satie's "Vexations" at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Safe at home this spring has not ...
(6) Gnossiennes, Movements: No. 1 (1890) Erik Satie, Composer Claire Chevallier, Piano (6) Gnossiennes, Movements: No. 2 (1890) Erik Satie, Composer Claire Chevallier, Piano (6) Gnossiennes, Movements ...
A performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations can last 20 hours. But is it avant-garde art, or a misunderstood joke? Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...
6 July 1926: The Guardian’s Eric Blom reviews the first London performance of Erik Satie’s Jack in the Box, one year after the composer’s death Erik Satie: a life less ordinary M Serge Diaghileff, ...
Safe at home has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the inescapable ...