Oldelaf Bonhomme

Erik Satie, the visionary French composer and pianist, left an indelible mark on classical music through his innovative and eccentric approach. The album "Satie, E.: Piano Works (1906-19); Pièces humouristiques & Other Works" delves into Satie's genius, characterized by simplicity, humor, and a rejection of traditional norms.

A collection of unrivalled completeness, Tout Satie proves that the music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) remains as provocative, delightful – and surprising – as ever. These 10 CDs, featuring artists with impeccable credentials in French repertoire, draw together his works for piano, orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. They constantly remind us that Satie was not just a maverick or an eccentric: he was a true original.

Erik Satie - The Complete Solo Piano Music - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (2003) {5CD Box Set, Decca 473 620-2}
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Classical / Fantasies / Chamber Music / Improvisation / Piano

Jean-Yves Thibaudet has undertaken the complete solo piano works of another late nineteenth/early twentieth century French composer: Erik Satie. This even includes a sample of Vexations, that theme and two variations that Satie instructs to be played slowly, 840 times. It's interesting to compare Thibaudet's interpretations of these works with those of Aldo Ciccolini, who was one of Thibaudet's teachers. Overall, Thibaudet gives a less-Romantic interpretation, with less overt emotion and more introverted abstraction, but it is not overly academic.

Talivaldis Kenins - Anthology of Canadian Music (1989) {4CD Set, Radio Canada International ACM-33}
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© 1989 Radio Canada International | ACM-33
Classical / Contemporary Classical / 20th Century

Anthology of Canadian Music/Anthologie de la musique canadienne(ACM). Collection of recorded music created by RCI devoted to prominent Canadian composers of serious music and to their most significant works. Tālivaldis Ķeniņš was born on 22 April, 1919, in Liepāja. He died on 21 January, 2008, in Toronto. He began to study music with Lūcija Garūta, then, having moved to France with his parents, he studied in Grenoble with Henri Miller. He studied composition at the Latvian State Conservatory with Jāzeps Vītols. After World War II, Ķeniņš once again travelled to France and in 1945 enrolled at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, where his professors were Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen.

Anne Sylvestre, Agnes Bihl, Nathalie Miravette, Dorothee Daniel - Carre de Dames (2015) {Banco Music BAN3269}
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© 2015 Banco Music | BAN 3269
French Pop / French Chanson

If there is one thing that brings together Anne Sylvestre and Agnès Bihl, two singers of different generations, it is the love of the good word and the way to make it live. Supported by pianists Dorothée Daniel and Nathalie Miravette, they reinterpret here, as a duo, a few selected moments from their personal repertoire. The result is spontaneous, often very funny (les Imbéciles, Son mec à mo). But what seduces the most in this album in the form of parenthesis is the pleasure it contains and the good mood that emerges from it. What does it matter if the interpretations are not always perfect, since the result is jubilant?

Celebrating Erik Satie represents a creative and stimulating selection of jazz arrangements and improvisations. Ximo Tebar is a respected guitarist and creative force from Spain who has taken the compositions of the eccentric, irascible, and innovative French composer and transmuted them into jazz ensemble performances. Tebar shakes things up while retaining enough straight-ahead jazz to appeal to the masses; it's no accident that "En Habit de Cheval" possesses a clear reference to John Coltrane's magnum opus, A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964). Like Coltrane, Tebar is fortunate enough to have recruited other outstanding musicians who can implement his complex ideas. The watchword of this album is "plays," with the implications of irony and humor, tinged with Chaplin-esque sadness that characterizes what Tebar and his ensemble, taking a cue from Satie, offer. Satie was an inventive, experimenting composer who influenced musical impressionism and minimalism, which in turn strongly impacted modern jazz.

Franck Valmont - Maléré (1976) {Moshe-Naim MN 42801 rel 2001}
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© 1976, 2001 Moshe-Naim | MN 42801
Jazz / World Fusion / Jazz Rock / World Music / Afro Beat

A fabulous French/West Indies Afro-jazz-funk-Caribbean-fusion album, originally released on the Moshé-Naïm label by poet-singer-painter Franck Valmont accompanied by multicultural progressive jazz-rock band, Synchro. Featuring Jo Maka (Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra) on sax, Louis Xavier on bass and fuzz-bass, Georges Nouel on electric piano and organ, Gerard Curbillon from Magma-related prog-fusion band Speed Limit on electric guitar, and Yves Dolphin on drums. Includes "Diamant", "Maléré", and more. Remastered sound.