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| | allmusic [Yitkin Seow Plays Erik Satie] |
 | | Satie's music is somewhat rarefied, eccentric, and vaguely surrealistic, but also limited in emotional range and style. |
 | | Pianists must contend with his thin textures, abrupt changes of mood, and unusual harmonic voicings in much the same way: with refined delicacy, as in the Gymnopédies (3), Gnossiennes (6) and Nocturnes (5), or with irreverent, punchy vigor, as needed in Sports et divertissements, Heures séculaires et instantanées, and the Sonatine bureaucratique. |
 | | Seow plays on the subdued side -- the very antithesis of Romantic pianism, which Satie would have applauded -- and his interpretations have a veiled quality that makes these short pieces enigmatic and perhaps mistier than might be expected. |
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