British pianist Rolf Hind is a nontraditional performer in London's Wigmore Hall. He plays three pieces by French impressionist composer Erik Satie — "Gnossiennes No 1," "Preludes flasques," and ...
Stately and serene, Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies offer music of radical simplicity and transcendent beauty, from a composer who defied convention in his music and in his personal life. M. Erik Satie was ...
Erik Satie's music is better described by what it isn't than what it is. A contrarian, he wrote anti-emotional, anti-virtuosic and anti-Wagnerian music, basically rejecting all the major trends of ...
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