• 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
Contents:
Berceuse (Lullaby): No. 2 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’
Ce que dit la petite Princesse des Tulipes (What little Princess Tulip says): No. 2 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’
Etre jaloux de son camarade qui a une grosse tete (Being jealous of a playmate): No. 1 from ‘Peccadilles Importunes’
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 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’
Profiter de ce qu’il a des cors aux pieds pour lui prendre son cerceau: No. 3 from ‘Peccadilles Importunes’ Tiresome Prank No. 3
Valse du Chocolat aux Amandes (Chocolate-Almond Waltz): No. 3 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’
