But not like anyone else. Not quite belonging. Losing himself in his music. A singer of plainchant, a ritualist, an innovator, lover of ragtime and the American two-step, a classicist. Poised and innately balanced. Keeping an appropriate distance, hieratic. The Wagnerian Chabrier of ‘Gwendoline’ (the mystic orgies of Sâr Péladan), the discipline of the Schola Cantorum (the bizarre curios), the secret allusions and confused, unbidden memories—just like anyone else’s. But this isn’t Satie, it’s me (plus Satie after a hundred years). In which time the poor and lonely man is no longer taken as an absurd joke, or some sort of technical incompe- tent. In which time ‘cadences’ finally become an obsolete form of punctuation. In which ‘cost’ replaces ‘value’, and diatonicism rises again from beneath the frozen waters of serialism, its bloated carcass hideously cleansed of any life or identity. Satie—hero of my early teens, provocateur and renegade. Fighting the hazy and some say ‘unreal’ battles alongside Ives and Varèse. Soon to be joined by Busoni and Schoenberg. All in a moment of history. This moment. Written specially for Eve Egoyan, the particular character, depth and sensitivity of touch and phrasing with which she illuminates the music she plays: an alchemy, authenticity, and fearlessness. - Michael Finnissy ERIK SATIE, like anyone else was commissioned by Eve Egoyan with the assistance of the British Council. From the CD WEAVE by Eve Egoyan released May 5, 2006 https://eveegoyan.bandcamp.com/album/weave-works-by-martin-arnold-michael-finnissy-jo-kondo-and-james-tenney http://eveegoyan.com/ Executive Producer: Eve Egoyan Studio Producer: David Jaeger Sound Engineer: David Quinney Assistant Engineers: Dennis Patterson, Charles Katchebaw Digital Editing and Mastering: Clive Allen Recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto Introduction: Elissa Poole Notes Editor: Lauren Pratt Translation: Dominique Denis Graphic Design: Lisa Kiss Design Photography: David Rokeby, Patricia Rozema ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GprSG2uu3o

Jehan Alain's Mythologies japonaises for piano piano - Georges Delvallée ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YhT5JzJ_N0

Erik Chisholm's Piobaireachd Lament for piano 00:00 - Piobaireachd Lament No.1 05:30 - Piobaireachd Lament No.2 piano - Murray McLachlan ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5w_k5npbM

Leopold Godowsky's 12 Impressions for violin and piano 00:00 - No.1, Larghetto lamentoso 04:04 - No.2, Profil (Chopin) 07:50 - No.3, Legende 10:46 - No.4, Tyrolean (Schuhplattler) 12:40 - No.5, Poëme 19:14 - No.6, Perpetuum mobile 21:15 - No.7, Elegie 25:03 - No.8, Valse (Französisch) 28:06 - No.9, Valse macabre 30:12 - No.10, Orientale 32:43 - No.11, Saga 35:12 - No.12, Viennese (Wienerisch) violin - Nazrin Rashidova piano - Roderick Chadwick ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vXBNOcbXrc