Credits:

Bizet / Weyand / Abel

Description:

The 8th volume of the complete Satie: Piano Works by Schleiermacher! The eighth volume of Satie: The Complete Piano Works by Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher, a collection of Satie-like pieces including "Sport and Distraction." Schleiermacher was born in Halle in 1960, and is a composer himself, specializing in contemporary music including John Cage's works. The recording on this release includes "Sports and Distractions" and a group of three small pieces including "Automatic Descriptive Method," "Dried Fetus," and "Sketches and Teasing of a Fat Wooden Doll". The "Sports and Distractions," a collection of 21 pieces, was composed by Satie for a collection of drawings by Charles Martin, one piece at a time. Titles include "Yachting," "Bathing," "Horse Racing," and "Tennis," with the ever-repeating, never-ending "Tango" being particularly well-known. Satie was known for his unique sense of humor and was affectionately called "the teacher of the town of Arcueil" by his friends and self-appointed disciples. What's the use of being mean? I never joke.We don't know the real Eric Satie, but this collection of songs offers a glimpse of the truth in Satie's work, including a cynical side that can be inferred from the song titles included here. King International

Tracklisting:

1.Descriptions automatiques~Sur un vaisseau
2.Descriptions automatiques~Sur une laterne
3.Descriptions automatiques~Sur un casque
4.Embryons desseches~d'Holothurie
5.Embryons desseches~d'Edriophthalma
6.Embryons desseches~de Podophthalma
7.Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois~Tyrolienne torque
8.Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois~Danse maigre
9.Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois~Espanana
10.San Bernardo
11.Chapitres tournes en tous sens~Celle qui parle trop
12.Chapitres tournes en tous sens~Le porteur de grosse pierres
13.Chapitres tournes en tous sens~Regrets des enfermes
14.Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses~Chez le marchand d'or
15.Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses~Danse cuirassee
16.Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses~La Defaite des Cimbres
17.Menus propos enfantins~Le chant guerrier du Roi des Haricots
18.Menus propos enfantins~Ce que dit la petite Princesse des Tulipes
19.Menus propos enfantins~Valse du Chocolat aux Amandes
20.Trois nouvelles enfantines~Le vilain petit vaurien
21.Trois nouvelles enfantines~[Berceuse]
22.Trois nouvelles enfantines~La gentille toute petite fille
23.Enfantillages pittoresques~Petit Prelude a la journee
24.Enfantillages pittoresques~Berceuse
25.Enfantillages pittoresques~Marche du Grand Escalier
26.Peccadilles importunes~Etre jaloux de son camarade qui a une grosse tete
27.Peccadilles importunes~Lui manger sa tartine
28.Peccadilles importunes~Profiter de ce qu'il a des cors aux pied pour lui prendre son cerceau
29.Sports et divertissements~Choral Inappetissant
30.Sports et divertissements~La Balancoire
31.Sports et divertissements~La Chasse
32.Sports et divertissements~La Comedie Italienne
33.Sports et divertissements~Le Reveil de la Mariee
34.Sports et divertissements~Colin-Maillard
35.Sports et divertissements~La Peche