Name: Letter(s) to Erik Satie - Vinyl Edition
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The result is not so much a viewing of Satie though a Cageian lens, but a viewing of the two through the distinctive, brilliant lens of a sensitive pianist, newly converted. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Nov 2023
Catalogue No: 5419778266
Label: Erato

Gramophone Awards

2024 Winners

Concept Album

Cage: All Sides of the Small Stone for Erik Satie and (Secretly Given to Jim Tenney as a Koan)

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 1

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Cage: Prelude for Meditation

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 2

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 3

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Cage: A Room

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Cage: In a Landscape

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Rêverie de L'Enfance de Pantagruel

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Véritables préludes flasques (3), pour un chien

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gymnopédie No. 2

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Excerpt, Satie: Sports et Divertissements

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 4

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Cage: Swinging

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gymnopédie No. 3

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 5

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Nocturne No. 2 'Simplement'

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Cage: Perpetual Tango

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 6

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Sarabande No. 3

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Songe-creux

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Prelude du Premier Acte - La Vocation

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 7

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Tenney: 3 Pages in the Shape of a Pear

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Cage: Dream

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

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“Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely different prism,” says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. “They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be.” With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. Satie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following its rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney – whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme. Chamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: “I thought we should do something a little different – and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano … Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.”

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January 2024

The result is not so much a viewing of Satie though a Cageian lens, but a viewing of the two through the distinctive, brilliant lens of a sensitive pianist, newly converted.

March/April 2024

Chamayou bears a major responsibility for the disc’s success through his consistently beautiful playing. Effective performances of Satie’s piano music require a combination of skills: delicacy, clarity, supple phrasing, and wit.

December 2023

the challenge with these deceptively simple pieces is to maintain perfect balance, weight, poise and equilibrium in the music throughout, alongside a clear sense of line and unswerving tempo. Chamayou manages this quite brilliantly in In a Landscape.

16th November 2023

as Bertrand Chamayou’s beautifully planned and presented sequence of miniatures by both composers shows, Satie’s music imprinted itself on Cage’s own piano works, especially in some of his pieces for conventional and prepared piano from the late 1940s...it’s a gem of a collection.

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