Author Description

this album brings together three groups of pieces, all written in 1913 by the eccentric French composer, Erik Satie. ingeniously devised to make full and basic use of the five fingers of each hand display the characteristic simplicity of Satie´s music and, in the text sprinkled across the music, his quirky humour Berceuse (Lullaby): No. 2 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’ Ce que dit la petitePrincesse des Tulipes (What little Princess Tulip says): No. 2 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’ Etrejaloux de son camarade qui a une grosse tete (Being jealous of a playmate): No. 1 from ‘PeccadillesImportunes’ Le chant guerrier du Roi des Haricots (The War Song of King Haricot): No. 1 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’ Lui manger sa tartine (Eating someone else’s bread and jam): No. 2 from ‘Peccadilles Importunes’ Marche du Grand Escalier (March of the Grand Staircase): No. 3 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’ Petit Prelude a la journée (Little Overture to the Day): No. 1 f