Satie: Piano Music - CD

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<br><br>In 1925 France’s most famous musical rebel and pioneer died in the Saint-Joseph hospital in Paris from an excess of drinking. His name: Erik Satie. Now, about 75 years after his death, his music appeals to a broad worldwide crosssection of listeners. The most important image that posterity has retained of Satie is<br /> that of a humorist, a whimsical composer devoted to provocation, extravagance and the absurd. He thoroughly enjoyed misleading critics and masking his own identy, character and intentions with his unambitious short piano pieces with wilfully ironic and fantastic titles to tease the public.<br /> <br /> On this release, pianist Håkon Austbö plays Satie's Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, Sarabandes, Nocturnes and a wealth of other solo piano pieces. <br /> <br /> Other information:<br /> Recorded in May-July 1999, Remonstrantse Gemeente, Deventer, The Netherlands.