Rosicrucian
Satie meets three like-minded eccentrics: a young Debussy, a beautiful (but spoken for) painter, and a very unusual priest.
Donald Macleod explores the life of maverick composer Erik Satie, the inventor of 鈥渇urniture music鈥�, whose innovations delighted and divided France. Satie's compositions 鈥� and their peculiar annotations 鈥� were a revolution, paving the way for a new generation of musical rebels, including Les Six. He was just as odd in his day-to-day life, known for his quirky fashion and dramatic outbursts, he always kept a hammer in his pocket for fear of muggers and once even founded his own church.
In this episode, Satie meets three like-minded eccentrics: a young Debussy, a beautiful (but spoken for) painter, and a very unusual priest. But Satie鈥檚 relationships were rocky at best and, as Donald learns, the composer was fond of making a scene.
Vexations
Alessandro Deljavan, piano
Trois Gnossiennes
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Le Fils des 茅toiles
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
Danses gothiques
Alessandro Simonetto, piano
Sonneries de la Rose+Croix: 1. Air de l'Ordre
Reinbert de Leeuw, piano
Pr茅lude de la porte h茅ro茂que du ciel
Reinbert de Leeuw, piano
Produced by Alice McKee for 蜜芽传媒 Audio Wales & West
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- Tue 1 Jul 2025 16:00蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
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