Old Sequins and Ancient Breastplates: Historical Recordings and Rarities 1926-1961

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\u2022 A four disc Box set collection of historic Satie recordings, ranging from the 1920\u2019s onwards.\nIncluding such rarities as Henri Sauguet\u2019s \u2018Socrate\u2019 for solo voice and orchestra; piano sets by William Masselos and Aldo Ciccolini that have been out of print for decades; Serge Koussevitzky's vintage recordings of the \u2018Gymnop\u00E9dies\u2019, (arranged for orchestra by Claude Debussy), and Francis Poulenc and Georges Auric's two pianos and four hands arrangement of \u2018Parade\u2019, the Diaghilev-Picasso-Cocteau ballet which created a scandal in Paris and for the first time forced upon Satie the glare of publicity.\nSatie's best known compositions, \u2018Trois Gymnop\u00E9dies\u2019, composed in 1888 at the age of 22, and \u2018Trois Gnossiennes\u2019, which was written two years later, create the impression of being either very archaic or very modern; astonishing early expressions of the composer's originality. He invented minimalism, ambient music, (whn