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Atmospheric <strong>Piano</strong> Music<br />
Satie, Erik<br />
(1866–1925)<br />
Avant-dernières pensées<br />
Urtext / Ed. J. Rosteck<br />
With notes on performance<br />
practice by S. Schleiermacher<br />
☞ BA 10849<br />
No distribution rights<br />
for France<br />
The atmospheric cycle Avantdernières<br />
Pensées (Next-to-last<br />
Thoughts) of 1915, with its<br />
underlaid words, belongs to<br />
Satie’s ‘story pieces’.<br />
The curious performance<br />
instructions in these three<br />
miniatures, all based on ostinato<br />
figures, amusingly lampoon<br />
the ideal of Romantic<br />
expressiveness.<br />
Embryons desséchés<br />
Urtext / Ed. J. Rosteck<br />
With notes on performance<br />
practice by S. Schleiermacher<br />
☞ BA 10811<br />
No distribution rights<br />
for France<br />
In the summer of 1913 Satie<br />
once more poked fun at<br />
himself and the world of music<br />
with a set of parodic piano<br />
pieces on various marine<br />
animals, giving it the<br />
grotesque title Embryons<br />
desséchés (Desiccated<br />
Embryos). The notation<br />
without barlines, the ‘stories’<br />
beneath the music and the<br />
From: Satie, Avant-dernières pensées · BA 10849<br />
spoofs of well-known pieces<br />
of music, most strikingly the<br />
Funeral March from Chopin’s<br />
<strong>Piano</strong> Sonata in B-flat minor,<br />
make the work a barrel of<br />
musical fun.<br />
Gnossiennes<br />
Urtext / Ed. J. Rosteck<br />
With notes on performance<br />
practice by S. Schleiermacher<br />
☞ BA 10807<br />
No distribution rights<br />
for France<br />
This Bärenreiter Urtext edition<br />
offers new variant readings<br />
and presents Gnossienne<br />
No. 7 in its authentic form for<br />
the first time.<br />
The Gnossiennes are<br />
particularly suitable for piano<br />
teaching because of their easy<br />
to medium difficulty level.<br />
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