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 ...

Aldo Ciccolini at the piano. Back in the 1960s, composer Erik Satie’s limpid, odd, but wonderful solo piano music became known largely through the recordings of the late Aldo Ciccolini, who very ...

À Honfleur, une grande exposition célèbre le centenaire de la mort d'Erik Satie, compositeur visionnaire et inclassable. À travers cet hommage, le public redécouvre l’univers foisonnant d'un artiste ...

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 ...

Centenaire de la mort de Satie. Cette série retrace, autour de cinq thèmes, la vie d’Erik Satie, compositeur français né à Honfleur (Calvados) en 1866 et mort il y a cent ans, le 1er juillet 1925. Ce ...

This is starting to look like the year of Erik Satie. How else could there be two magnificent albums dedicated to his music? The first was Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen's The Satie Project (Daywood ...

The notorious piano work Vexations by the smiling prankster of modern music Erik Satie is aptly named. What could be more vexing than to hear the same solemn procession of chords interspersed with a ...

What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a good start. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim A French composer specified ...

Many compelling musicians share a May 17 birthday, including Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, blues titan Taj Mahal and more. But longevity is the ultimate present, ...

Safe at home this spring 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 ...