Rzewski: Piano Music Robert Satterlee

• 1 Fantasia 07:06
• 2 No. 1. — 03:15
• 3 No. 2. — 03:02
• 4 No. 3. — 02:35
• 5 No. 4. — 03:19
• 6 No. 5. — 03:21
• 7 No. 6. — 04:22
• 8 De Profundis 28:39
• Total Runtime 55:39

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Frederic Rzewski is one of the most influential figures in contemporary music. In the composer’s own words, for this second, 1999 version of Fantasia, “I ... changed the music to obscure the tune, putting in lots of wrong notes and kind of stomping on and smudging everything.” Second Hand, or Alone at Last was written for Robert Satterlee, the left hand “executing the most spectacular acrobatics.” Described by the composer as “melodramatic oratorio” for speaking pianist, De Profundis is a startlingly original work which uses an Oscar Wilde text written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol and requires the pianist to recite, sing, hum, whistle, use a Harpo horn, and hit his own body and the piano while playing a score of considerable variety and drama.

Robert Satterlee, piano

Recorded at Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA, on 27th and 28th May, 2007
Produced by Genevieve Lee
Engineered by Fred Vogler
Edited by Sergey Parfenov

Robert Satterlee
has concertized throughout the United States and Europe, in addition to making appearances in China and Thailand. He has been heard in radio broadcasts throughout the United States, most notably on Minnesota Public Radio and WFMT in Chicago. Music of our time plays an important rôle in Satterlee’s performing activity, and he has given premières of works by Frederic Rzewski, William Bolcom and Gabriela Lena Frank, among others. His identification with the music of Frederic Rzewski dates back to his student days, when he first met the composer in a class at Yale University. Satterlee’s keen interest in chamber music has led him to collaborate with members of the Chicago, London, Philadelphia and Detroit Symphony Orchestras in chamber music performances, and he was co-artistic director of Chamber Music Quad Cities, a music festival based in Iowa. Satterlee is on the faculty of Bowling Green State University in Ohio and teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp during the summer.

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