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Satie, Roge, Collard
4 Handed Piano
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (35) - Disc #1
1. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: Maniere de commencement
2. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: Prolongation du meme
3. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: I Lentement
4. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: II Enleve
5. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: III Brutal
6. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: En plus
7. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: Redite
8. PARADE: Prelude du rideau rouge
9. PARADE: Prestidigitateur chinois
10. PARADE: Petite fille americaine
11. PARADE: Rag-time du paquebot
12. PARADE: Acrobates
13. PARADE: Supreme effort et chute des managers
14. PARADE: Suite au Prelude du rideau rouge
15. Troisieme Sarabande
16. La Belle Excentrique: I Marche franco-lunaire
17. La Belle Excentrique: Grande Ritournelle
18. La Belle Excentrique: II Valse du 'mysterieux baiser dans l'oeil'
19. La Belle Excentrique: Grande ritournelle
20. La Belle Excentrique: III Cancan grand-mondain
21. Apercus desagreables: Pastorale
22. Apercus desagreables: Choral
23. Apercus desagreables: Fugue
24. Six Pieces de la periode: Desespoir agreable, No. 1
25. Six Pieces de la periode: Songe-Creux, No. 6
26. En Habit De Cheval: Choral
27. En Habit De Cheval: Fugue litanique
28. En Habit De Cheval: Autre choral
29. En Habit De Cheval: Fugue de papier
30. Trois Petites Pieces montees: I De l'enfance de Pantagruel (Reverie)
31. Trois Petites Pieces montees: II Marche de Cocagne (Demarche)
32. Trois Petites Pieces montees: III Jeux de Gargantua (Coin de Polka)
33. Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes): Choral hypocrite
34. Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes): Fugue a tatons
35. Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes): Fantaisie musculaire

CD Details

All Artists: Satie, Roge, Collard, Juillet
Title: 4 Handed Piano
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca
Release Date: 3/14/2000
Genre: Classical
Styles: Ballets & Dances, Ballets, Baroque Dance Suites, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028945540122

Synopsis

Amazon.com

The headline news is that the performers get Satie right here. Many Satie recordings are too lush, losing the astringent edge that keeps his loveliness from turning to sentimentality. Rogé, the main performer, has the right idea. He plays with beautiful tone and phrasing, but adds just enough edge to his sound that the music never turns mushy. The program includes all Satie's music for piano four hands, including the famous "Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear" (Satie's ironic reply to Debussy's suggestion that he pay more attention to form), along with a few solos. A four-hand version of the ballet Parade, without the gunshots and sirens of the orchestral version, might seem useless, but it comes off very well. Juillet joins Rogé for the rarely heard "Things Seen to the Right and Left (Without Eyeglasses)," also capturing the appropriate irony. This well-recorded disc is a winner. --Leslie Gerber

CD Reviews

Probably the Finest 4-Handed Satie...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 07/15/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

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For those who want to go indepth in their search for the elusive Satie, his music for piano duet must not be overlooked. And for 4-handed Satie, this is probably the finest realizations we're likely to hear.

Pascal Rogé is a very fine pianist; yet I feel he's slightly overlooked, when he should be actively sought out--espeically with the French literature. Seek: After the Rain...The Soft Sounds of Erik Satie ; and Satie: 3 Gymnopédies and Other Piano Works . (Although Erik Satie: Piano Works ; Satie: Gymnopédies No1-3; Petite ouverture à danser ; and Satie: Piano Music; Mélodies [includes DVD] are really good.)

Much of Satie's 4-handed piano music bears the quiet dignity of his "popular" Gymnopédes, Gnossiennes, and Nocturnes. Some of it is a little more tempestuous--i.e., the Parade. Doubleplus bonus, this disc contains Satie's only little works for violin and piano.

For those really interested in Satie, four recent discs are absolutely essential: Vexations ; Erik Satie: Musique de la Rose-Croix; Pages Mystiques; Uspud [Import] ; Socrate and Melodies .

This disc seems to be out of print, so recommend it be obtained from a 3rd party vendor quickly.

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