Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Valse-Ballet Op.62 (1885)

Fantaise-Valse (1885)
4 Ogives (1886)
Trois Sarabandes (1887)
Trois Gymnop�dies (1888)
Gnossiennes (1889-1891)
Premi�re Pens�e Rose + Croix (1891)
Le Fils des �toiles (Pr�ludes) (1892)

Bojan Gorisek, piano

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01 Satie - Valse-Ballet Op 62 (1'45")

02 Satie - Fantaise-Valse (2'20")
03 Satie - 4 Ogives - Les Anges (2'5")
04 Satie - 4 Ogives - Elegie (2'51")
05 Satie - 4 Ogives - Sylvie (2'11")
06 Satie - 4 Ogives - Les Fleurs (3'0")
07 Satie - Trois Sarabandes (11'25")
08 Satie - Trois Gymnopedies - Lent et Douloureux (3'48")
09 Satie - Trois Gymnopedies - Lent et Triste (3'4")
10 Satie - Trois Gymnopedies - Lent et Grave (2'43")
11 Satie - Gnossienne No 5 (2'50")
12 Satie - Gnossienne No 1 (3'51")
13 Satie - Gnossienne No 2 (1'58")
14 Satie - Gnossienne No 3 (2'47")
15 Satie - Gnossienne No 4 (2'46")
16 Satie - Premiere Pensee Rose et Croix (0'58")
17 Satie - Le Fils des Etoiles - Preludes (9'29")

Erik Satie was (and is) mainly regarded as the clown, the blaguer (joker). With his
charming irony, his trademark, the composer assigned himself a place among the
visionaries. This strongly overshadowed the true impact of this razor sharp musical
chronicler of the Parisian fin de si�cle. Erik Satie, the eccentric Frenchman, in
his career wrote some of the most beautiful solo piano music ever to grace our
ears. He wrote deeply emotional and spiritual piano music, deceptive in its
simplicity and sparse structure. Satie gave his piano pieces names like Unpleasant
Glimpses, Genuine Flabby Preludes (for a dog), or Old Sequins and Old Breastplates.
He accompanied the scores of these pieces with all kinds of written remarks,
through which he insisted that these should not be read out during performance. It
is a well-documented fact that every day of his working life Satie left his
apartment in the Parisian suburb of Arcueil to walk across the whole of Paris to
either Montmartre or Montparnasse before walking back again in the evening. Satie
was known as an eccentric, and amongst other things he started his own church (with
himself as only member). Debussy and Ravel were among his friends. He was not
hailed by the masses, but was admired by many young composers and musicians. In
fact, Satie was the center of the Groupe des Six, a group of six French composers
(Auric, Durey, Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Milhaud and Poulenc. The group
advocated clear musical language, and opposed impressionism (for example Debussy
and Ravel ), slavism (Stravinsky) and post-Wagnerism (Sch�nberg) in music.

Pianist Bojan Gorisek (b. 1962 in Slovenia) completed his studies with Herbert
Henck in Cologne. He has performed in USA, Italy, Germany, France, Austria,
Switzerland, Spain, The Netherlands and Finland. He has worked with Luciano Berio,
Vinko Globokar, Jane Manning, Irena Grafenauer, John-Edward Kelly and David Harman.
In 2006 Bojan Gori�ek was appointed as regular professor for chamber music at the
Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He is under exclusiv contract with Blaricum Music
Group Amsterdam, AUDIOPHILE CLASSICS series. He recorded complete piano works of
Eric SATIE (10 CDs), George Crumb (4CDs), Marij Kogoj and Aldo Kumar. Bojan Gori�ek
won several awards for his work, including the most recent prestigious national
award for art Nagrada Pre�ernovega sklada in 2006.