Erik Satie: Socrate & 6 Nocturnes

Satie set portions of Plato's texts from Symposium, Phaedrus, and Phaedo in French translation by Victor Cousin. He treats these primary texts of Western civilization with a dignity and respect accorded to the Gospels, setting them to a noble music of a pellucid crystallinity--a dialectical "white music" of blanc et noir son gris. The overall ethos is extraordinarily subtle and detached, self-effaced and equitable, while featuring an unction--an internal momentum--of unmistakable imagination. This concentration imposes a précis upon a sensible auditor who may psychically be transported into the mise-en-scène itself: withal, the effect is spellbinding and transcendent. . The reading here is superb, and this disc in particular is very satisfactory as it features Socrate as the primary work and supplements it with the contemporaneous Nocturnes, making for a very nice and aesthetically unified programme. Billy Eidi is expert with this French material, and Jean Belliard's light tenor fits the bill. (amazon.com) Format: AAC (neroAacEnc)

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