The ABRSM 'Easier Piano Pieces' series features pieces chosen for their comparative lack of technical difficulty, therefore providing an excellent introduction to the music of great composers throughout history.
This album brings together three groups of pieces, all written in 1913 by the eccentric French composer, Erik Satie. Each piece is Ingeniously devised to make full and basic use of the five fingers of each hand. They display the characteristic simplicity of Satie's music and, in the text sprinkled across the music, his quirky humour.
- Berceuse (Lullaby): No. 2 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’
- Ce que dit la petite Princesse des Tulipes (What little Princess Tulip says): No. 2 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’
- Etre jaloux de son camarade qui a une grosse tete (Being jealous of a playmate): No. 1 from ‘Peccadilles Importunes’
- Le chant guerrier du Roi des Haricots (The War Song of King Haricot): No. 1 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’
- Lui manger sa tartine (Eating someone else’s bread and jam): No. 2 from ‘Peccadilles Importunes’
- Marche du Grand Escalier (March of the Grand Staircase): No. 3 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’
- Petit Prelude a la journée (Little Overture to the Day): No. 1 from ‘Enfantillages Pittoresques’
- Profiter de ce qu’il a des cors aux pieds pour lui prendre son cerceau: No. 3 from ‘Peccadilles Importunes’ Tiresome Prank No. 3
- Valse du Chocolat aux Amandes (Chocolate-Almond Waltz): No. 3 from ‘Menus Propos Enfantines’
