Release Date: 01 July 2018
Label: Willowhayne Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001668111
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Richard Fowles
Description
Richard Fowles wrote a couple of Satiean pieces during his time at Brunel University; pieces which Sally Goodworth, Brunel’s piano teacher, was kind enough to record for him. After the recording session, Sally encouraged him to publish the compositions because today “everyone loves Satie’s music but has heard it a million times before”. Fowles heeded this advice, and with 2016 being the 150th anniversary of Satie’s birth, it seemed an appropriate time to celebrate his unique music. The ideas for the pieces came from the life of Satie himself. The first pieces in the collection are the only ones that directly acknowledge works by the composer. The works in question are his much loved Gnossiennes. There are several theories as to why Satie chose this peculiar name; the predominant one being his association with a gnostic sect. In naming Fowles’ own Knossiennes, he decided to take influence from another potential source of the name: the excavations in Knossos that were taking place around the time Satie composed his works. The ‘K’ is also a reference to Satie’s uncommon spelling of his first name.
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Tbilisi So/Djansug Kakhidze
Tbilisi So/Djansug Kakhidze
Tbilisi So/Djansug Kakhidze
