Schleiermacher is already famous for his Satie interpretations and he gives well nigh definitive accounts of the music on disc. |
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The ex-punk, classically outlandish Clark gave Trevitt a superb solo to music of Erik Satie, titled Satie Stud. |
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When she played Satie on her own, I noticed she used the sustaining pedal sparingly. |
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Satie was in advance of his time with his love of bitonality, polytonality and non-triadic harmony to name but a few of his gravity-breaking techniques. |
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Composed in the 1920s, when Erik Satie and Dadaist ideas about art were much in vogue, the opera lives on the borderline between childhood fantasy and campy surrealism. |
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