Satie for Guitar

Pièces pour Guitare
Played by Pierre Laniau
EMI, 1982

http://www.ubu.com/sound/satie_guitare.html

if you listen carefully you can hear birds singing at the end of this one.

http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/satie_erik/guitare/Satie-Eric_Guitare_02_Four_Gnossiennes_2_Avec_etonnement.mp3

Ed and Ubu web come up trumps, again!

I'm loving these, Ed. Thanks! Interesting how the instrumentation really brings out Satie's french roots. Something which is not as apparent in pieces like the piano versions of Gymnopédie. Must be that guitar style which really reminds me of Django Reinhardt and the french gypsy jazz scene.
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just what i thought, the gnossienes (cant spell it) sound particularily folky and almost eastern european/russian or something on the guitar for some reason, good stuff. (there was an eastern influence in france around saties time, lots of russian emigres and the influence of the "mighty handful" and all that, some were prompted to call french music "russian music with the sustain pedal on" etc)

prompted me to learn the first one on the piano. (its quite straightfoward to play but probably as difficult as anything else to play "well")

found some sheet music for satie too (plus alot of other stuff)

http://www.el-atril.com/partituras/Satie/gnossienne_1-a4.pdf

main site (you`ll have to negociate the spanish)

http://www.el-atril.com/partituras/search.html

i know these were posted millions of years ago, but i've finally gotten around to downloading a lot of new music and Satie is just super ace, best thing I've heard in a long while. Thanks there Ed.
I'd also like to extend my thanks to Jerome as I've also finally got around to checking the Baroquedub mix tapes (mixtapes 4, 13 and 18 being faves so far). Just double, quadruple ace.
I also heard that Elvis Presley died recently, shame....
Back on tuesday so hope to catch up with whoever's around.

Al

Glad you liked the Satie Al, its very peaceful, less is more (in this case)

most peaceful. i just can't stop playing it!

P.S any chance of some more stuff like it? solo piano or guitar?

Satie is a bit of a one off really, within the 'classical' tradition Ravel is similar, however his music is not as simple and repetitive as Satie`s (which is more like pop or folk music really, or 'musique d’ameublement' as he called some of it, 'furniture music' or 'furnishing music')

Try this piano movement 'Forlane' by Ravel from his 'Tombeau De Couperin' piece (its 'nice' and melodic, a bit like Satie, but with more development/variation)

http://www.last.fm/music/Maurice+Ravel/_/Forlane?autostart

The Naxos version on Last FM is too quick for my liking, Hubert Laws did a nice version of it for flute and electric guitar and his Romeo and Juliet album, not as tasteless as you might think.

Cant find that track online at the moment, however there is a version of Gymnopedie #1 by Satie available (so much vibrato it becomes tremolando, a bit much for me thanks Hubert)

http://www.last.fm/music/Hubert+Laws/_/Gymnopedie%2B%25231

Also on LastFm is a Hubert version of Syrinx by Debussy (rather an odd one, with delay/echo for some reason), he is the other French composer normally associated with Satie (however he is even less 'pop' than Ravel, less repetition in general, 'understated')

Try his most famous piano piece, Claire de Lune (you will have heard it before, though possibly only bits of it on an advert or on a film or whatever)

http://www.last.fm/music/Claude+Debussy/_/Clair+de+Lune

L'Isle Joyeuse is probably my 'favourite' Debussy piano piece (its some way from Satie`s simplicity, a different thing/mood, mostly whole tone harmony for one thing)

http://www.last.fm/music/Claude+Debussy/_/L%27Isle+Joyeuse

If I think of anything else I`ll post. (maybe Tom can recommend some stuff also, being a classical pianist of sorts)

nice work there mate.
clair de lune i am rather fond of, shame it's only a 30 second clip. could you reccommend a good recordning of it, with other "hits" as well?

Hmm, the version of Clair de Lune is a full track I think, at least on this page anyway...

http://www.last.fm/music/Claude+Debussy (its the one that loads up straight away in the player)

Also a nice version for two guitars...

John Williams & Julian Bream: C.Debussy-Clair de Lune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1i_2HYmJkA

And try Chopin`s Prelude in E-minor (op28), sounds like it influenced Satie`s Gnossiene Nr1 to me (at least a bit, maybe, both fairly simple and brief minor key tunes anyway, not much in the way of virtuostic fireworks etc)

http://www.last.fm/music/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin/_/Prelude+in+E+Minor%2C+Op.+28%2C+No.+4?autostart

Its a bit fast though (for my taste), try this performance on YouTube..

chopin prelude op28 no 4 by maestro Paik Kun Woo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dseJl09blm8&feature=related

While we are in this ball park, worth revisiting Beethoven`s Moonlight Sonata, nice performance of it here..(the 1st movement)

Moonlight Sonata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOvK-mAk&feature=related

that john williams and julian breem clip was great. funnily enough a friend of mine was telling me about a couple of albums they did "Together" and "Together Again" (seems even classical musicians can't help sequelitis sometimes). meant to be pretty sweet. will check those other pieces out soon

ok mate (lol at 'sequelitis', sounds painful)

An amusing Bream clip here, an example of how you can be really polite and really pushy at the same time, forcing himself upon the great Stravinsky "Would you like to see my lute?".

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=t4f8fej9Sqo

(not sure why YouTube has gone all foreign, maybe their main servers are down, will check the link again tomorrow)