Rezension
For me, the real "Best of Satie" would include at least
excerpts from the opera Socrate and the ballet Parade. But this is a
nice overview of the eccentric composer's keyboard gems, culled from
Klára Körmendi's excellent Satie cycle for Naxos. Many pianists
take Satie's wistful melodic sensibility as license to let the music
wallow and droop. Körmendi will have none of that. Her sensitive,
expertly colored playing brings uncommon, refreshing urgency to the
first three Nocturnes, the well-worn Gymnopédies, and all six
Gnossiennes. Moreover, she has a way of making the composer's
idiosyncratic expressive indications audible without hitting listeners
over the head. The disc concludes with the Gymnopédies in their
familiar orchestrations by Debussy (Nos. 1 & 3) and Roland-Manuel
(No. 2). The French orchestra plays rather patchily in the first but
redeems itself with some very nice playing in the other two. No. 3
features a lovely oboe soloist surrounded by silvery, reed-organ-like
high strings. If you're looking for a Satie piano music start-up kit,
this is the one. -- From ClassicsToday.com
Produktbeschreibungen
3 Gymnopédies - 6 Gnossiennes - Je te veux - Avant-dernières pensées - La Diva de l'Empire - Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté... / Artistes divers