A performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations can last 20 hours. But is it avant-garde art, or a misunderstood joke? Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

Safe at home this spring has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the ...

New Music by Composer/Piano/Brass Erik Satie, with vocals by Debbie Lease, now available. A contemporary collection of styles reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, Bix Biderbecke, Rafael Mendez, Miles Davis ...

Beautifully planned and presented sequence of miniatures pays homage to Satie and to John Cage who was heavily influenced by the late French composer From the mid 1940s onwards, John Cage became ...

Today I heard–for the thousandth time– Satie’s famous solo piano tryptic 3 Gymopedies—the title refers to an ancient Spartan dance performed by naked men. Satie was an eccentric who gave his ...

A timeless television theme tune, ‘Satie-fied’, in a sublime rendition for solo piano courtesy of Classic FM presenter, Tim Lihoreau. The popular British sitcom Blackadder takes its cast of ...

Aldo Ciccolini at the piano. Back in the 1960s, composer Erik Satie’s limpid, odd, but wonderful solo piano music became known largely through the recordings of the late Aldo Ciccolini, who very ...

To begin this music chronologically -- which Horvath does -- is to plunge you up to your neck in exactly the sort of Chopinesque conventionality that the rest of Satie's radicalism negates so ...

Originally released in 1984 as a companion to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Music for Nine Post Cards, this collection of Satie’s solo piano pieces is a cornerstone of Japanese ambient. In a short span of time, ...

Bruce Liu’s new album of music by Satie raises important questions about the relationship between performer and instrument. Does the sound of a particular instrument affect a performer’s ...