Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 1

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In this utterly delightful disc [Ogawa] manages to convey not only Satie’s quirkiness, but his honesty…Ogawa does use the sustaining pedal, but sparingly. She also, as we know, has a fine technique... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2215
Label: BIS
Series: Noriko Ogawa plays Satie
Length: 77 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

1st July 2016
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2016

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Satie: Six Gnossiennes

Work length18:57

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent

Track length3:37

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Gnossiennes: No. 2, Avec etonnement

Track length1:52

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Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent

Track length2:32

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Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent

Track length2:11

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Gnossiennes: No. 5, Modéré

Track length3:32

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Gnossiennes: No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse

Track length1:10

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Gnossiennes: No. 7, Le Fils des étoiles

Track length4:03

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Satie: Le Piccadilly

Work length1:28

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

Satie: Chapitres tournés en tous sens

Work length5:14

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. Celle qui parle trop

Track length0:54

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II. Le Porteur de grosses Pierres

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III. Regrets des Enfermes (Jonas et Latude)

Track length1:59

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Satie: Avant Dernières Pensées

Work length2:52

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. Idylle. Modéré, je vous prie

Track length0:54

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II. Aubade. Pas vite

Track length1:09

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III. Méditation. Un peu vif

Track length0:49

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Satie: Croquis et Agaceries d'un Gros Bonhomme en bois

Work length4:43

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. Tyrolienne Turque

Track length1:54

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II. Danse maigre (a la maniere de ces Messieurs)

Track length1:23

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III. Expanana

Track length1:26

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Satie: Sonatine Bureaucratique

Work length3:48

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. Allegro

Track length1:06

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II. Andante

Track length1:11

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III. Vivace

Track length1:31

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Satie: Poudre d'or

Work length4:41

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

Satie: Embryons desséchés

Work length6:09

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. d'holothurie. Allez un peu

Track length1:56

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II. d'edriophthalma. Sombre

Track length2:28

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III. de podophthalma. Un peu vif

Track length1:45

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Satie: Descriptions automatiques

Work length5:14

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. Sur un Vaisseau. Assez lent

Track length2:14

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II. Sur une Lanterne. Lent

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III. Sur un Casque. Pas accéléré

Track length1:00

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Satie: Heures séculaires et instantanées

Work length3:39

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

I. Obstacles venimeux

Track length1:48

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II. Crepuscule matinal (de midi)

Track length0:54

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III. Affolements granitiques

Track length0:57

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Satie: Prélude à (en) tapisserie

Work length2:06

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

Prelude en tapisserie

Track length2:06

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Satie: Valses (3) distinguées du précieux dégoûté

Work length3:25

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

No. 1. Sa taille

Track length1:06

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No. 2. Son binocle

Track length1:28

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No. 3. Ses jambes

Track length0:51

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Satie: Je te veux

Work length5:23

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

Satie: Trois Gymnopédies

Work length10:03

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Recorded: August-September 2005
Recording Venue: Studio, Tokyo College of Music, Japan

No. 1. Lent et douloureux

Track length3:32

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No. 2. Lent et triste

Track length3:12

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No. 3. Lent et grave

Track length3:19

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Recording of the Week, Piano and Vocal music by Erik Satie

1st July 2016

James listens to a double helping of works by Satie, whose 150th anniversary falls this year.

150 years after his birth, Erik Satie is still one of the great enigmas of classical music – a composer who said of himself ‘I am not fond of jokes… I never make jokes’ but is nevertheless regarded as one of the great tricksters of Western music; who at one stage was involved with esoteric societies such as the Rosicrucian Order and founded a church of his own (the ‘Metropolitan Art Church of Jesus the Conductor’), and inventing the genre ‘furniture music’ that, for Satie, was ‘fundamentally industrial’, similar to ‘light, heat and all the forms of comfort’. In this anniversary year, Noriko Ogawa launches a complete set of Satie’s music for solo piano – a body of works which includes the sets of Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies, which through their use in countless movie sound tracks have reached and affected audiences across the planet, pieces that Satie wrote for his own use when working as a bar pianist (Je te veux, Le Piccadilly), parodies on other composers (Sonatine bureaucratique is a spoof on a sonata by Clementi) as well as experiments such as Vexations, a brief theme with chordal accompaniment which according to an instruction in the score is to be played 840 times! Noriko Ogawa, whose wide-ranging and acclaimed discography includes music by Mozart and Rachmaninov as well as complete recordings of the piano music by her compatriot Toru Takemitsu and by Debussy (a friend and rival of Satie’s) performs all of this on an instrument from Satie’s own time – an exquisite Erard grand piano built in 1890, the very year that Satie composed his Gnossienne No. 1 which opens this disc and new cycle.

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September 2016

In this utterly delightful disc [Ogawa] manages to convey not only Satie’s quirkiness, but his honesty…Ogawa does use the sustaining pedal, but sparingly. She also, as we know, has a fine technique and the relentless gossip of ‘Celle qui parle trop’ is given the full speed ahead, persuading us that the poor husband might indeed, as Satie’s commentary informs us, ‘die of exhaustion’

15th August 2016

Holds its own with other top Satie recordings; there’s the added incentive of a period piano and first-rate sound

1st July 2016

Ogawa performs all of these pieces on an Érard piano built in 1890 (coincidentally the year in which Satie wrote the first three Gnossiennes). The tone is really quite striking (especially to modern ears accustomed to the sound of a Steinway concert grand, for instance), and if ever you needed a demonstration of how the choice of instrument can fundamentally alter the overall sound produced, this may be the perfect disc!

11th September 2016

Ogawa sensibly juggles with chronology, breaks things up with Satie’s arrangements of his popular songs and bookends her selection with the Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies. The playing is unfailingly elegant, her crystalline sound enhanced by the Erard she uses.

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