Track Listings (58) - Disc #1| All Artists: Satie, Abravanel, Utah Symphony Title: Complete Ballets Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Vanguard Classics Release Date: 5/10/1993 Genre: Classical Styles: Ballets & Dances, Ballets, Forms & Genres, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 723918403021, 3351474030718 |
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Satie's Parade is a ballet that means nothing. It's exactly what the title implies--an procession of nonsensical images--and its orchestration includes such novelties as a typewriter, roulette wheel, pistol shots, and ju... more » |
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Amazon.com Satie's Parade is a ballet that means nothing. It's exactly what the title implies--an procession of nonsensical images--and its orchestration includes such novelties as a typewriter, roulette wheel, pistol shots, and just about anything else you can imagine. This disc includes all of Satie's original orchestral music, and some pieces that were orchestrated by others. As a composer, Satie was as important for the influence he had on future composers as for his own music, which is certainly charming enough. Maurice Abravanel was in Paris when all of this music was new and exciting, and he knows better than just about anyone how it should sound. A classic recording. --David Hurwitz Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsIf you like Erik Satie.... Photoscribe | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA | 03/24/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "...Especially if you like him orchestrated rather than through piano, as he seems to always BE interpreted, you can find no better example of his work than this album! The Utah Symphony makes the Phillies look sick here, as they produce faultlessly lush orchestral tones for this semi-obscure composer's work. Remember what I said about "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue"? This album will ALSO put you in a cherry-paneled den, with books lining all the walls, seated in a big, red leather easy chair, (with wings, natch!) smoking on a pipe filled with Blend II, reading Dumas' "The Three Musketeers"! No album will ever make you feel artsy-fartsier!An odd thing about this album is that none of the cuts is longer than 3.25 minutes! However, it all feels like a cohesive whole, at 74:28. The real show-stopper in the set is the exquisite rendition of "Gymnopedies 1 & 3" by this orchestra. Talk about a thing of beauty! NOWHERE will you hear a better version or a prettier piece of music, (with the possible exception of Menotti's "Barcarolle" from "Sebastian"). "No. 3" is the longest cut on the album at 3:15. Other cuts range from 24 seconds to 2m:53s.No composer has sounded more French, more comic and more adept at composition than Satie...! Perhaps the only equal he had was his distaff colleague, Germaine Taillafaire, whose "Concerto For Harp and Orchestra" is yet ANOTHER example of Gallic exquisiteness."
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