A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, ...

Erik Satie has emerged as the composer of our pandemic/protest times, the soundtrack both for chilling out at home and for channeling psychic dread.

Erik Satie: Complete Piano Music (Aldo Ciccolini, pianist; EMI). There aren`t many pianists today who would care to record Satie`s complete piano music, nor are there many who could do it justice.

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist born in 1866. He was, to put it lightly, eccentric. He started his musical career playing in cabaret-cafes in Montmartre in Paris, and did not complete his ...

Erik Satie had a way with words. There have been few composers who found such obvious glee in the use of language. In written performance indications appended to his scores, he would ask musicians ...

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist, born on May 17th, 1866 and by all accounts, he was thought of as a talentless musician in his formative years. At least that’s how Georges Mathias ...

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 ...

Tom Service re-appraises Erik Satie, the man and his music, on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Including contributions from Caroline Potter and Pascal Roge. Show more Tom Service re-appraises ...

Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984 was conceived as a compilation of Satie’s “furniture music,” which proposed the idea of music made to soundtrack daily life long before Eno or anybody else did.