Browse: Satie - Nocturne No. 2 'Simplement'

the challenge with these deceptively simple pieces is to maintain perfect balance, weight, poise and equilibrium in the music throughout, alongside a clear sense of line and unswerving tempo.... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…

Ciccolini 1980s Satie recordings are notable for their big-boned, magisterially sculptured approach. He avoids romanticising or sentimentalising the music, and it's stronger for it. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

“The performances…challenge the safe conformity, the curious predicatiblty that smooths the edges in so many Satie recitals…there is an improvisatory, mercurial air about much of the palying... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…