Guillaume Coppola – Satie Amoureux [CD]

Description

We know Satie as a loner, but it is less well known that Satie had also been in love. He had a brief and stormy affair with the painter Suzanne Valadon. The portrait she made of him is on the cover of this album, as pianist Guillaume Coppola has conceived it as an intimate portrait of the composer, “one masked by a veil of modesty or provocation and which lies between antique and oriental inspiration, mystical phases, humour and cabaret”. The miniature Bonjour Biqui and the motif of the Vexations possess rare allusions to Valadon and become commas between these chapters, as does Desespoir agreable, whose title alone seems to sum up Satie’s life and work. This tribute is released to mark the centenary of Satie’s death; whilst the famous Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes feature on the programme, the album also presents rare and infrequently recorded discoveries that testify to the richness of the works that the whimsical Satie had created.

Tracklist:

1. Je te veux, valse chante version piano de l’auteur
2. Valse-Ballet
3. Gymnopdie no. 3
4. Gnossienne no. 1
5. Fantaisie-Valse
6. Tendrement
7. Poudre d’or
8. Bonjour Biqui, bonjour!
9. Gnossienne no. 4
10. Gnossienne no. 2
11. Gnossienne no. 7
12. Vexations~Thme de la basse
13. Danse gothique~No. 1: A l’occasion d’une grande peine
14. Prlude de la Porte hroque du ciel
15. Vexations~Premire harmonisation du motif
16. trois valses distingues du prcieux dgot~I. Sa taille
17. trois valses distingues du prcieux dgot~II. Son binocle
18. trois valses distingues du prcieux dgot~III. Ses jambes
19. Sonatine Op. 36 no. 1~I. Spiritoso
20. Sonatine Op. 36 no. 1~II. Andante
21. Sonatine Op. 36 no. 1~III. Vivace
22. Sonatine bureaucratique~I. Allegro
23. Sonatine bureaucratique~II. Andante
24. Sonatine bureaucratique~III. Vivache
25. Vexations~Seconde harmonisation du motif
26. Nocturne no. 6
27. Dsespoir agrable
28. Jack in the Box~
29. Prlude
30. Piccadilly
31. Diva de l’Empire
32. Rag-Time Parade
33. Morceaux en forme de poire 4 mains~En plus
34. Morceaux en forme de poire 4 mains~Redite

UPC: 3701624511923
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: CD