Satie/Planès
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Alain Planès returns to Erik Satie's crystalline piano works with the intimate knowledge of a musician who has spent decades in dialogue with this singular voice. These pieces—the Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, and Pièces Froides among them—occupy a strange territory in classical music: spare and almost austere on the surface, yet layered with a quiet melancholy and harmonic sophistication that rewards close listening. Planès navigates Satie's deliberately anti-virtuosic aesthetic not with restraint that feels cold, but with a pianist's warmth that honors the composer's paradoxical vision: music meant to disappear into a room, yet somehow unforgettable. This new recording captures both the weightlessness and the emotional depth that made Satie's late-nineteenth-century minimalism feel oddly modern, then and now.
Item Details+
| Genre | Classical |
| Style | Impressionist |
| Media | Mint (M) |
| Sleeve | Mint (M) |
| Description | Sealed. |
| Label | Harmonia Mundi |
| Year | 2025 |
| Country | France |
| Format | CD |
Tracklist+
1. Valse-ballet 2:14
2. Première Gnossienne (Lent) 3:00
3. Première Gymnopédie (Lent Et Douloureux) 3:23
4. Deuxième Gnossienne (Avec étonnement) 2:03
Pièces Froides
Première Partie : Airs à Faire Fuir
8. Troisième Gnossienne (Lent) 2:21
9. Deuxième Gymnopédie (Lent Et Triste) 2:47
10. Quatrième Gnossienne (Lent) 2:10
Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire
Embryons Desséchés
Trois Mélodies
Chapitres tournés en tous sens
27. Troisième Gymnopédie (Lent Et Grave) 2:36
28. Cinquième Gnossienne (Modéré) 3:19
Avant-dernières Pensées
32. La Diva de L'Empire (Temps de Marche Modérée) 1:39
33. Je Te Veux 4:16
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