℗ 2023 Parlophone Records Limited; A Warner Classics/Erato release
| Released | November 17, 2023 |
| Duration | 1h 09m 52s |
| Record Label | Warner Classics |
| Genre | Classical |
Letter(s) to Erik Satie
Bertrand Chamayou
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
3:37 | |||
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6 Gnossiennes
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1.2
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No. 1, Lent
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
3:02 | |||
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1.3
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Prelude for Meditation
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:20 | |||
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3 Gymnopédies
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1.4
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No. 1, Lent et douloureux
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:57 | |||
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6 Gnossiennes
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1.5
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No. 2, Avec étonnement
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:02 | |||
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1.6
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No. 3, Lent
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:45 | |||
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1.7
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A Room
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:16 | |||
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1.8
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In a Landscape
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
8:00 | |||
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3 Petites pièces montées
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1.9
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No. 1, De l'enfance de Pantagruel. Rêverie
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:14 | |||
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3 Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)
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1.10
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No. 1, Sévère réprimande
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:39 | |||
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1.11
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No. 2, Seul à la maison
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:58 | |||
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1.12
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No. 3, On joue
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:49 | |||
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3 Gymnopédies
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1.13
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No. 2, Lent et triste
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:41 | |||
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Sports et divertissements
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1.14
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No. 9, Le bain de mer
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:28 | |||
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6 Gnossiennes
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1.15
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No. 4, Lent
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:08 | |||
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Sports et divertissements
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1.16
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No. 2, La balançoire
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:44 | |||
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1.17
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Swinging
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:45 | |||
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Gymnopédies
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1.18
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No. 3, Lent et grave
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:30 | |||
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6 Gnossiennes
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1.19
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No. 5, Modéré
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:47 | |||
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5 Nocturnes
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1.20
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No. 2, Simplement
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:47 | |||
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Sports et divertissements
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1.21
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No. 17, Le tango perpétuel
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:07 | |||
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1.22
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Perpetual Tango
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:32 | |||
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6 Gnossiennes
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1.23
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No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:50 | |||
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3 Sarabandes
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1.24
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No. 3 in B-Flat Minor
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
4:26 | |||
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6 Pièces de la période 1906-1913
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1.25
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No. 6, Songe-creux
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
1:44 | |||
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Le fils des étoiles
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1.26
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Prélude du premier acte. La vocation
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
3:37 | |||
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1.27
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Gnossienne No. 7
Erik Satie; Bertrand Chamayou |
2:25 | |||
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1.28
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Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (In Celebration of Erik Satie)
James Tenney; Bertrand Chamayou |
0:32 | |||
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1.29
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Dream
John Cage; Bertrand Chamayou |
9:10 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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“Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely different prism,” says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. “They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be.”
With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie, Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. Satie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following its rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney – whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme.
Chamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: “I thought we should do something a little different – and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano … Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.”
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Warner Classics Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.70 -18.00 to -0.53 | -26.78 -42.99 to -19.00 | -23.69 -38.30 to -16.00 | 12 10 to 15 | |
| 1 | All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie | -8.52 | -29.29 | -26.4 | 12 |
| 2 | No. 1, Lent | -0.65 | -21.77 | -18.8 | 12 |
| 3 | Prelude for Meditation | -18.00 | -42.99 | -38.3 | 14 |
| 4 | No. 1, Lent et douloureux | -4.39 | -24.77 | -21.9 | 12 |
| 5 | No. 2, Avec étonnement | -2.37 | -23.92 | -20.6 | 12 |
| 6 | No. 3, Lent | -4.84 | -26.28 | -23.5 | 13 |
| 7 | A Room | -5.59 | -25.63 | -23.5 | 12 |
| 8 | In a Landscape | -8.70 | -30.19 | -27.6 | 14 |
| 9 | No. 1, De l'enfance de Pantagruel. Rêverie | -6.67 | -24.51 | -22.2 | 12 |
| 10 | No. 1, Sévère réprimande | -1.02 | -19.00 | -16.2 | 10 |
| 11 | No. 2, Seul à la maison | -5.49 | -27.14 | -24.2 | 12 |
| 12 | No. 3, On joue | -0.53 | -19.54 | -16.0 | 11 |
| 13 | No. 2, Lent et triste | -3.53 | -26.83 | -23.8 | 15 |
| 14 | No. 9, Le bain de mer | -1.77 | -22.72 | -18.2 | 12 |
| 15 | No. 4, Lent | -3.19 | -23.58 | -21.1 | 11 |
| 16 | No. 2, La balançoire | -11.61 | -31.24 | -28.6 | 11 |
| 17 | Swinging | -9.87 | -30.10 | -26.6 | 12 |
| 18 | No. 3, Lent et grave | -6.86 | -28.74 | -26.1 | 13 |
| 19 | No. 5, Modéré | -7.34 | -29.19 | -26.1 | 14 |
| 20 | No. 2, Simplement | -1.09 | -23.44 | -19.9 | 13 |
| 21 | No. 17, Le tango perpétuel | -14.39 | -33.74 | -30.9 | 12 |
| 22 | Perpetual Tango | -8.24 | -31.79 | -27.9 | 13 |
| 23 | No. 6, Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse | -9.38 | -28.37 | -25.7 | 11 |
| 24 | No. 3 in B-Flat Minor | -1.52 | -25.97 | -22.8 | 15 |
| 25 | No. 6, Songe-creux | -1.11 | -23.19 | -20.3 | 12 |
| 26 | Prélude du premier acte. La vocation | -0.53 | -23.14 | -19.0 | 14 |
| 27 | Gnossienne No. 7 | -0.53 | -22.28 | -19.4 | 13 |
| 28 | Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (In Celebration of Erik Satie) | -7.33 | -26.65 | -23.9 | 12 |
| 29 | Dream | -10.22 | -30.51 | -27.4 | 13 |