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Erik Satie's music sounds as vibrant and alive today as it did when it was written more than 100 years ago. Deprived of a formal education by his father and disenchanted with the musical training available to him, Satie was essentially self-taught. Nonetheless, he rose to become an intimate of contemporary leaders in poetry, painting and music in France, and was a decided influence upon major musical figures. It was Satie the 'revolutionary' who in the late 19th Century introduced strange new progressions which paralleled Fauré and anticipated the innovations of Debussy. Perhaps his most formidable weapons were his keen wit and irony. On hearing
French pianist Jean-Joel Barbier's recordings of Satie, Peter Kraus
realized the possibilities of transcribing the music for the classical
guitar. Peter began with the Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes for
guitar solo. The greater complexity of such works as the Pièces
Froides led him to transcribe for two guitars. Experimentation and revision
ensued, with the collection of music on this record as the final product. Track Listing
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