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PETER KRAUSS & MARK BIRD

SATIE FOR TWO GUITARS
Label EL
Catalog ACMEM320CD
Format CD
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2016-10-21
Description
・ Obscure, and often ridiculed during his lifetime, Erik Satie, the most unusual protagonist of the early 20th century French avant-garde, has transcended cult status and is now a composer whose modernity is at last appreciated.
・ On hearing French pianist Jean-Joël Barbier’s recordings of Satie, Peter Kraus realised the possibilities of transcribing the music for the classical guitar. Peter began with the Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes for solo guitar. The greater complexity of such works as the Pièces Froids led him to transcribe for two guitars, inviting fellow Los Angeles guitarist Mark Bird to collaborate. Experimentation and revision ensued with “Satie for Two Guitars” the impressive result.
・ In this edition, Satie for Two Guitars is complimented by an intensely coloured, very French recording of the composer’s music for the controversial ballet Parade in a performance by the conductor Louis Fremaux with the Orchestre National de l’Opera de Monte Carlo.
・ Parade’s scenario was written by Jean Cocteau in 1916-17 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with costumes and sets designed by the then-cubist painter Pablo Picasso and choreography by Léonide Massine. The public were outraged by Satie’s score which included typewriters and a foghorn and a considerable scandal ensued culminating in a short prison sentence for the composer.
・ Our programme is completed by Gaby and Robert Casadesus’ recording of the Trois morceaux en forme de poire (Three Pieces In The Shape Of A Pear), Satie’s eloquent riposte to a critic who had accused Satie of writing formless music.
・ Trois morceaux en forme de poire is a perfect example of the cinematic quality of Satie’s music, being used effectively in Terrence Malick’s celebrated directorial debut Badlands and liberally by Orson Welles in The Immortal Story along with the ‘Gnossiennes’ which are also performed by Johnny Mandel in Hal Ashby’s Being There and and is heard in Louis Malle’s sublime Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within).
tracklisting
1. TROIS AIRS À FAIRE FUIR
2. TROIS NOUVELLES PIÈCES FROIDS
3. TROIS GNOSSIENNES (I-III)
4. SARABANDES (I & II)
5. TROIS GYMNOPÉDIES
6. TROIS GNOSSIENNES (IV-VI)
7. TROISIÈME (THIRD) SARABANDE
8. DEUX REVERIES NOCTURNES
9. DEUX OGIVES
10. SONGE-CREUX
TROIS MORCEAUX EN FORME DE POIRE (THREE PIECES IN THE SHAPE OF A PEAR) GABY
CASADESUS, ROBERT CASADESUS (PIANOS):
11. MANIÈRE DE COMMENCEMENT
12. PROLONGEMENT DU MÊME
13. MORCEAU I
14. MORCEAU II
15. MORCEAU III
16. EN PLUS
17. REDITE
PARADE (BALLET RÉALISTE SUR UN THÈME DE JEAN COCTEAU) ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE L’OPERA DE MONTE CARLO LOUIS FREMAUX:
18. CHORALE
19. PRÉLUDE DU RIDEAU ROUGE
20. PRESTIDIGITATEUR CHINOIS
21. PETITE FILLE AMÉRICAINE
22. ACROBATES
23. FINALE: SUITE AU PRÉLUDE DU RIDEAU ROUGE
24. GNOSSIENNE No. 3 – Francis Poulenc
 

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