Customer Reviews:
 A Fine Satie... March 11, 2006
The Riviera Reviewer (the California Riviera.)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
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Difficult to beat Pascal Roge with Satie, but this disc is very fine indeed.
Pair this disc with Roge's "After the Rain" After the Rain...The Soft Sounds of Erik Satie
Adequate faux-Magritte cover photo too.
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SUBLIME SATIE August 2, 2005
Melvyn M. Sobel (Freeport (Long Island), New York)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
In no way, shape or form has Satie sounded so metaphysical, so ethereal; in no way, shape or form does the composer's mystical visions receive a more rapt personal approach. In the hands of pianist de Leeuw, the music simply doesn't get more intimate than this. Time stops; the melancholic simplicity embraces; the nurturing repetition--- tres lent---soothes mind, body and spirit. Not a note is out of joint, or misjudged. This is the deepest essence of Satie revealed in a performance so ideal in timing, so uncannily concentrated and distilled, so beautifully recorded, and so fully in accord, as to be, ultimately, perfect.
[Running time: 66:49]
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