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Release Date: 14 November 2025
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3701624511923
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Satie amoureux
Description
We know Satie as a loner, but it is less well known that Satie had also been in love. He had a brief and stormy affair with the painter Suzanne Valadon. The portrait she made of him is on the cover of this album, as pianist Guillaume Coppola has conceived it as an intimate portrait of the composer, "one masked by a veil of modesty or provocation and which lies between antique and oriental inspiration, mystical phases, humour and cabaret". The miniature Bonjour Biqui and the motif of the Vexations possess rare allusions to Valadon and become commas between these chapters, as does Desespoir agreable, whose title alone seems to sum up Satie's life and work. This tribute is released to mark the centenary of Satie's death; whilst the famous Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes feature on the programme, the album also presents rare and infrequently recorded discoveries that testify to the richness of the works that the whimsical Satie had created.
La Nereide
Justin Taylor
Emmanuel Ceysson; Veronique Gens; Quatuor Voce
Barbara Hannigan; David Chalmin; Katia Labeque; Marielle Labeque
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Ensemble Altera; Christopher Lowrey
Julien Chauvin; Le Concert de la Loge; Amihai Grosz
Guillaume Coppola
Arta Arnicane
Naruhiko Kawaguchi
Daan Vandewalle
Yuan Sheng
Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
Renee Chemet; Arthur Loesser; Harry Kaufman; Waldemar Liachowsky; Anca Seidlova; Michio Miyagi
Reentko Dirks
Peter Jacobs
