Peter Krauss: Satie For Two Guitars - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Satie For Two Guitars
Artist: Peter Krauss
Label: El
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929332034
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2016-10-28
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

Obscure, and often ridiculed during his lifetime, Erik Satie, the most unusual protagonist of the early 20th century French avant-garde, has transcended cult status and is now a composer whose modernity is at last appreciated. Satie's inimitable, bare and serenely objective music was largely neglected until the eclectic 1960s and '70s when such pioneering figures as John Cage, who was enthralled by the composer's desire to tear up the rule-book, to embrace the absurd and the surreal, and to blend low and high art, and Brian Eno, who proclaimed Satie to be "the first ambient composer", fell under his spell. On hearing French pianist Jean-Joël Barbier's recordings of Satie, Peter Kraus realised the possibilities of transcribing the music for the classical guitar. Peter began with the Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes for solo guitar. The greater complexity of such works as the Pièces Froids led him to transcribe for two guitars, inviting fellow Los Angeles guitarist Mark Bird to collaborate. Experimentation and revision ensued with "Satie for Two Guitars" the impressive result. In this edition, Satie for Two Guitars is complimented by an intensely coloured, very French recording of the composer's music for the controversial ballet Parade in a performance by the conductor Louis Fremaux with the Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte Carlo.

Tracks:
1.1 Trois Airs À Faire Fuir
1.2 Trois Nouvelles Pièces Froids
1.3 Trois Gnossiennes (I-III)
1.4 Sarabandes (I ; II)
1.5 Trois Gymnopédies
1.6 Trois Gnossiennes (Iv-VI)
1.7 Troisième (Third) Sarabande
1.8 Deux Reveries Nocturnes
1.9 Deux Ogives
1.10 Songe-Creux
1.11 Manière de Commencement
1.12 Prolongement Du Même
1.13 Morceau I
1.14 Morceau II
1.15 Morceau III
1.16 En Plus
1.17 Redite
1.18 Chorale
1.19 Prélude Du Rideau Rouge
1.20 Prestidigitateur Chinois
1.21 Petite Fille Américaine
1.22 Acrobates
1.23 Finale: Suite Au Prélude Du Rideau Rouge
1.24 Gnossienne No. 3 - Francis Poulenc