Satie: Complete Music for Piano Four Hands

Aperçus Désagréables (1908): This album contains some of Satie’s most important works: Parade, written for Cocteau, Relâche, Gymnopédies Nos. 1 and 3, and his so-called ‘Furniture music’, Musique d’ameublement of 1917. Composer: Erik Satie Artists: Sandra en Jeroen van Veen (piano four hands) Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866–1925) was born in Honfleur, of a Normand father and a Scottish mother. He rates as one of music’s true originals – a real ‘one-off ’. After his studies as an organist, and then a period as a rather unsuccessful concert pianist having studied with several eminent teachers (he hated the rules of academic life), he enrolled in the French Army. This didn’t solve his problems with life either, so he deliberately contracted bronchitis and was invalide