[Leica] OT Erik Satie

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

You're going to make me break out the vinyl;^)

Ric


On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Phil,
> If you can find it there's a wonderful recording by France Clidat  
> on Dutch Gramophone (CD85001).
> And a rather strange recording with Michel Legrand  playing the  
> piano and recitations in French by Raymond Devos (French humorist)  
> mostly as voice-overs but interesting all the same. (on Erato  
> 4509-92858-2).
>
> Erik Satie is a wonderful start to discovering lesser known French  
> (and Swiss) composers of the turn of the Century 19th -20th.
> Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc (love him), Germaine Tailleferre  
> (not enough on records) , Arthur Honegger (perhaps a little too  
> modern for some tastes), Jacques Ibert, Georges Auric, Louis  
> Durey.  All of them were around at about the same time as the more  
> "mainstream" French composers Ravel, Debussy and Faure (who wrote  
> the best Requiem ever!!).
> You may also find your way to Jean Francaix who followed this  
> "modern", but still recognisably musical, trend in French classical  
> music until his death in 1997.
>
> There is an anecdote (one of many) about Erik Satie: He apparently  
> asked Debussy what "La Mer" was all about. On being told that it  
> depicted a day in the life of an ocean, Satie replied," I  
> particularly liked the bit between 3 and 4 in the afternoon"
>
> There's also a fascinating recording on Chandos records with 2  
> ballet suites composed by about 12 French composers in the 1920s,  
> one of which "Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel" is the music for a  
> rather surrealistic ballet by Jean Cocteau where the main theme is  
> what can happen when a photographer says "watch the birdie" while  
> taking wedding photographs at the Eiffel Tower.  ( The title of the  
> record is L'eventail de Jeanne,  # CHAN 8356)
>
> There's another recording of music for 2 pianos by a selection of  
> these composers performed by Eduard Exerjean and Philippe Corre  
> including Darius Milhauds glorious "Boeuf sur le Toit" and  
> "Scaramouche" , 2 delightful cameos from Francis Poulenc and a  
> selection of works from Tailleferre, Auric, Durey and Honneger
> (Disques Pierre Verany PV.786091 Title Le Groupe des Six - The Six  
> - Le Boeuf Sur le Toit)
>
> Hope you find as much enjoyment in this period of French classical  
> music as I do
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
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