Composed by Erik Satie/Robert Orledge. Edited by Robert Orledge. Music inspired by Nature. Piano Music by Erik Satie. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFES004. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFES004).
8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Satie began this little piece as a composition for an orchestra consisting of two clarinets, cor anglais and a few strings. His famous remark after hearing the première of Debussy’s « La Mer » in October 1905 immediately springs to mind, as cited by Hélène Jourdan-Morhange in « Ravel et Nous ». Referring to the first movement « From Dawn to Midday on the Sea », Satie cried out : « Ah ! My old friend ! There is above all a little moment between 10h30 and 10h45 that I found amaing ! » His own aquatic evocation is of gently lapping wavelets, miles distant from Debussy’s often exuberant triptych, but I could not help thinking, as I completed the last 30 or so bars, that Satie might perhaps have put in one or two disguesed thematic references to Debussy’s masterpiece somewhere. Perhaps a few listeners may spot them in the piano version.
Composed by Erik Satie/Robert Orledge. Edited by Robert Orledge. Music inspired by Nature. Piano Music by Erik Satie. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFES004. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFES004).
8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Satie began this little piece as a composition for an orchestra consisting of two clarinets, cor anglais and a few strings. His famous remark after hearing the première of Debussy’s « La Mer » in October 1905 immediately springs to mind, as cited by Hélène Jourdan-Morhange in « Ravel et Nous ». Referring to the first movement « From Dawn to Midday on the Sea », Satie cried out : « Ah ! My old friend ! There is above all a little moment between 10h30 and 10h45 that I found amaing ! » His own aquatic evocation is of gently lapping wavelets, miles distant from Debussy’s often exuberant triptych, but I could not help thinking, as I completed the last 30 or so bars, that Satie might perhaps have put in one or two disguesed thematic references to Debussy’s masterpiece somewhere. Perhaps a few listeners may spot them in the piano version.
Preview: La Mer est pleine d’eau : c’est à n’y rien comprendre
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