Unsent Love Letters \u2013 Meditations on Erik Satie <\/em>is the new album from ABC CLassics which features music by Elena Kats-Chernin inspired by Erik Satie, performed by pianist\u00a0Tamara-Anna Cislowska.<\/p>\nIt is available digitally and as a double CD<\/p>\n
After Satie’s death, dozens of unsent love letters were found in his Paris apartment. Now composer Elena Kats-Chernin and pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska post these letters in 26 meditative and passionate piano miniatures inspired by Satie\u2019s extraordinary life and music.<\/p>\n
The album is a musical memoir from one composer to another; from Kats-Chernin, the Uzbekistan-born Australian to Satie, the French composer whose eccentricities are legendary and whose music is timeless.<\/p>\n
\u201cSatie\u2019s life was a fascinating, fervoursome affair,\u201d says pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska, \u201cfrom the first strike of love and then lifelong estrangement with artist and muse Suzanne Valadon, to the unexpected celebrity and conflict of his last ten years. After he died, friends gaining access to his apartment, for the first time in almost three decades, found conditions both perplexing and romantically fastidious in their own way: two grand pianos one atop the other, one chair, one table, seven velvet suits and the love letters \u2013 many, many unsent love letters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album reflects aspects of Satie\u2019s life, with music that ranges from seductive Orientalism to hypnotic melodies reminiscent of the innovative, transcendent beauty of Satie\u2019s own piano pieces: \u2018imaginary building\u2019 conjures up his sketches of imaginary buildings which he even advertised in the newspaper for rent and purchase, \u00a0\u2018very shiny\u2019 contains one of his characteristically opaque performance directions; \u2018postcard to a critic\u2019, follows Satie\u2019s explosive response to a negative review which led to a spell in gaol.<\/p>\n
The buoyant rhythms and rhapsodic harmonic style that have earned Kats-Chernin the reputation as one of the best-loved composers of her generation provide the perfect lens through which to observe a musical great of the 20th century.<\/p>\n
Unsent Love Letters \u2013 Meditations on Erik Satie<\/em>\u00a0is a world-premiere recording, made in Kats-Chernin’s presence and performed by her very own choice of pianist, the ARIA-Award-winning Tamara-Anna Cislowska, described as \u201cAustralian piano gold\u201d by BBC Music Magazine and praised for her \u201cprofoundly affecting\u201d musicianship by Gramophone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unsent Love Letters \u2013 Meditations on Erik Satie is the new album from ABC CLassics which features music by Elena Kats-Chernin inspired…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-22694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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