Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes and Other Works for Piano(《吉母诺培迪组曲》《吉诺西安》和其它钢琴作品)

In his piano works especially, Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a witty musical caricaturist. The eccentric French composer loved to satirize academic rules in general and the impressionistic titles of Debussy's compositions in particular, giving his own works such surrealistic names as Pieces in Pear Form and Dried Embryos, and annotating them with equally bizarre musical directions: "Tres 'neuf heures du matin' " (Very "nine in the morning"), "'Corpulentus" (Corpulent), and so on. It is comic spirit is equally embodied in the music itself, as this delightful selection of seventeen piano works amply proves. They are as spare, lively and capricious as they are hauntingly melodic. In addition to the well-known Gumnopedies andGnossiennes, the pieces reproduced here include Sarabandes, Piices froides, Poudre d'or, En habit de cheval, Morceaux en forme de poire, Embryons desseches, Apercus desagreables, Descriptions automatiques and more.

Sarabandes (1887)
Gymnopedies [Gymnopaidiai] (1888)
Trois Gnossiennes [Three Dances of Knosos (?)] (1890)
Le Fils des Etoiles: Wagneie Kaldeenne du Sar Peladan [The Son of the Stars: A Chaldean Wagnery by Sar
Peladan] (1891) Prelude du ler Acte: La Vocation, 27. Pr41ude du 2e Acte
Sonneries de la Rose + Croix [Trumpet Calls of the Rose+ Cross] (1892)
Prelude de La Porte Heroique du Ciel [Prelude to The Heroic Gate of Heaven] (1894)
Pices Froides [Cold Pieces] (1897)
Poudre d'Or [Gold Dust] (c. 1901)
3 Morceaux en Forme de Poire (a4 mains) avec une Maniere de Commencement, une Prolongation du meme & un En Plus, suivi d'une Redite [3 Pieces in Pear Form (for four hands) with a By Way of a
Beginning, an Extension of the Same, and an In Addition, followed by a Repetition] (1903)
En Habit de Cheval [In Riding Habit] (four hands) (1911)
Apercus Desagreables [Unpleasant Observations]
Veritables Pre1udes Flasques (pour un chien) [Genuine Flabby Preludes (for a dog)] (1912)
Descriptions Automatiques [Automatic Descriptions] (1913)
Embryons Desseches [Dried Embryos] (1913)
Croquis et Agaceries d'un Gros Bonhomme en Bois [Sketches and Provocations of a Portly Wooden Mannikin] (1913)
Chapitres Tournes en Tous Sens [Chapters Turned Every Which Way] (1913)
Vieux Sequins et Vieilles Cuirasses [Old Sequins and Old Breastplates] (1913)