Satie: Sonatine Bureaucratique

“They make the music spikier, less amiable than some interpreters - to its benefit.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 ****

"Rogé understands the music perfectly well ... [his] interpretations are entirely admirable ..." Gramophone

“A collection of Satie's piano music with all the best-known pieces, played elegantly and captured in beautiful sound.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2006 ***

“Roge has a real feeling for this repertoire and he conveys its bitter-sweet quality and its grave melancholy as well as he does its lighter qualities. He produces, as usual, consistent beauty of tone, and this is well projected by the recording.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

"entertaining and attractive anthology gets better and better as it proceeds. John McCabe has the full measure of Satie's understated melancholy and cool, lyrical nostalgia. ...response of the pianism places this amongst the finest of Satie collections" (Penguin Guide 3 stars)

“It's a pity the Regis transfers of piano music dampen the sound, for Satie needs to be more aggressive than this. John McCabe's playing is appropriately po-faced, the wit and the melancholy just under the surface of these pieces.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2006 ****