A timeless television theme tune, ‘Satie-fied’, in a sublime rendition for solo piano courtesy of Classic FM presenter, Tim Lihoreau. The popular British sitcom Blackadder takes its cast of ...

Originally released in 1984 as a companion to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Music for Nine Post Cards, this collection of Satie’s solo piano pieces is a cornerstone of Japanese ambient. In a short span of time, ...

Safe at home this spring has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the ...

Erik Satie: Complete Piano Music (Aldo Ciccolini, pianist; EMI). There aren`t many pianists today who would care to record Satie`s complete piano music, nor are there many who could do it justice.

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 ...

Lovers of Erik Satie’s exquisite piano music would baulk at the mere suggestion that his later pieces are just mood-setting background music. In fact, it was he that inferred this by describing some ...

On September 9, 1963, a small classroom-size crowd of abstract artists, Off Broadway actors, and miscellaneous beatniks gathered at the Pocket Theatre—a former vaudeville house on Third Avenue and ...

A French composer specified that his composition be repeated hundreds of times. His wishes will be followed at N.Y.U. today. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at why 24 ...

Last year, FABLES made its debut in Toronto at Gallery 345 with an unlikely mixture of sounds: classical piano music from the French Impressionists and piano covers of Japanese video game scores. On ...