Performances
Satie - an eccentric in Paris. A piano recital.
Join Jake Spence for a captivating evening at St Vincent's Chapel: Scottish Episcopal Church on November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM (Europe/London time) as we celebrate the piano music of the eccentric composer, Erik Satie, his contemporaries and admirers. Get ready to be enchanted by the delightful melodies of the Gymnopédie No. 1 and Je te veux. Enjoy the quirky humour of Embryons desséchés and many more of his fascinating pieces. Hear the music of his contemporaries and admirers such as Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc and Stravinsky. Experience an exciting journey as Jake Spence paints a musical picture of the Paris that Satie knew so well.
Programme:
Saint-Saëns - Les cloches du soir
Satie - Première Ogive
d'Indy - Choral Grave
Hahn - Grands yeux
Satie - Allegro
Chabrier - Habanera
Ravel - À la manière de Emmanuel Chabrier
Satie - Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois
Bowles - Prelude No. 4
Rorem - The Wind Remains (Remembering Paul Bowles)
Thomson - Travelling in Spain: Remembering Alice Woodfin Branlière
Cage - Triple Paced (First Version)
Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
Stravinsky - Polka
Mompou - Chopiniana
Copland - Petit Portrait
Satie - Embryons desséchés
Interval - refreshments included in ticket price
Dukas - Pièce pour M. Koussewitzsky
Roussel - Allegro grazioso (no. 2 of Trois pièces)
Satie - Avant-dernières pensées
Debussy - Rêverie
Album de Les Six: pieces by Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre
Cliquet-Pleyel - Come along
Koechlin - La leçon de Piano
Satie - Je te veux
Satie - Nocturne No. 3
Viñes - Threnodie, ou Funérailles antiques
Dickinson - Satie Transformation No. 1
