Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: CD.01B Satie (Klavier) / College 5a - Szene	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Erik Satie: Socrate [EST: Socrate / Arr.]

 

Arranged for two pianos by John Cage

 

Symphonic drama in 3 parts

 

1. I. Portrait of Socrates (The Symposium)

 

2. II. On the banks of the Ilissus (Phaedrus)

 

3. III. The death of Socrates (Phaedon)

 

 

Ferenc Liszt: Via Crucis [S. 53, LW. J33; EST: Via crucis / Arr.]

 

For piano duet

 

The 14 stations of the cross

 

4. Vexilla Regis (Abroad the royal banners)

 

5. I. Jesus is condemned to death

 

6. II. Jesus bears his cross

 

7. III. Jesus falls the first time

 

8. IV. Jesus meets his holy mother

 

9. V. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross

 

10. VI. Saint Veronica

 

11. VII. Jesus falls the second time

 

12. VIII. The women of Jerusalem

 

13. IX. Jesus falls the third time

 

14. X. Jesus is stripped of his garments

 

15. XI. Jesus is nailed to the cross

 

16. XII. Jesus dies on the cross

 

17. XIII. Jesus is taken down from the cross

 

18. XIV. Jesus is laid in the sepulchre

 

 

 

Listening consecutively to the two pieces (both resist all attempts to classify by genre) one might think they were by the same composer, and not without reason. The elderly Liszt and Satie came to similarly radical conclusions: both destroy the faith vested in the continuous development of music history and the listener’s expectations; both minimise their means and renounce the magic power of music, discarding elements whose only function is to give pleasure, and searching instead for an inner nuclear energy; both refrain from constructing “developmental” dramatic forms, in order to organise the musical process anew, from within; finally both reach back to the music of the Middle Ages, and present this temporal step backwards as an intellectual step forwards.