Erik Satie: 'Gnossienne No 1' (flute & guitar). скачать в хорошем качестве

Erik Satie: 'Gnossienne No 1' (flute & guitar).

   • willie-whistleblower   Satie's originality is seen both in his music and his imaginative interpretative directions. In this piece they are: 'Very glowing'/ 'Questioning'/'From the end of the thought'/ and 'Upon the tongue'. Satie may have developed the idea from Rossini who towards the end of his life composed a box of musical bonbons for piano solo, called: 'Pêchés de Vieillesse'. He called one 'Miscarriage of a Polish Mazurka' and another 'Hygienic Prelude for Morning Use'. The player must do what he can with these enigmatic directions. Alfred Eric Leslie Satie was born in Honfleur in 1866 and died in Paris in 1925. His French father and Scottish mother were both composers. After studying for a year at the Paris Conservatoire, he played in cabarets before spending 3 years with Schola Cantorum, a largely religious-based school founded by d'Indy and others. He adopted a defiantly modernistic style and attached whimsical titles to his compositions. Both Debussy and Ravel encouraged him (Debussy by orchestrating the first and third 'Gymnopédie') and in the 1920's he helped found, along with Cocteau, 'le Groupe des Six', which included Honegger, Milhaud and Poulenc. Through Picasso he got to know Braque with whom he shared several projects. Following the break-up of his relationship with the painter, Suzanne Valadon (the mother of Maurice Utrillo), he composed his "Vexations" -a short melody to be played 840 times after a period of silent preparation. The work lasts about 20 hours and has been performed by John Cage, Thomas Bloch and others. Satie died alone and in dire poverty, with his collection of umbrellas and his 7 identical mustard coloured velvet suits. (Having a French father and Scottish mother, Satie today might have been perplexed by Brexit and the ruthless deceptions that those self-serving politicos responsible for our well-being practised on us when pushing us into so terrible a trap. No question that the cultural divide between our nations is far narrower than the post Brexit politico-philosophical abyss, with all its bitterness and bickering...).