1. PREMIÈRE GYMNOPÉDIE: LENT ET DOULOUREUX 00:03:06 THE GYMNOPÉDIES ARE THREE WORKS FOR PIANO SOLO PUBLISHED IN PARIS IN 1888. THIS FIRST ONE (LENT ET DOULOUREAUX, SLOW AND PAINFUL) IS TERRIBLY POPULAR: WE ARE LISTENING TO IT IN A FASCINATING VERSION FOR PIANO AND FLUTE.

2. DEUXIÈME GYMNOPÉDIE: LENT ET TRISTE 00:02:25 SATIE IS CONSIDERED THE FORERUNNER OF AMBIENT MUSIC: ALSO IN THIS PIECE IT SEEMS THAT THE ATMOSPHERE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MUSIC ITSELF. RARE AND ORIGINAL RECORDING FOR PIANO AND FLUTE.

3. TROISIÈME GYMNOPÉDIE: LENT ET GRAVE 00:02:20 LENT ET GRAVE, SLOW AND GRAVE, THE THIRD GYMNOPEDIES: THE ECCENTRICITY AND THE EXTREME SWEETNESS OF THIS PIECE SEEMS TO BE PUT IN FURTHER EVIDENCE BY THIS VERSION FOR PIANO AND FLUTE.

4. RAG-TIME - PARADE 00:01:48 THE IMPACT OF EARLY JAZZ UPON FRENCH MUSIC (1900-1935) IS WELL HIGHLIGHTED BY THIS WORK: ONE OF THE EARLY FRENCH EXPLORATIONS OF RAGTIME! PIANO AND FLUTE.

5. TROIS GNOSSIENNES - I. LENT 00:03:42 "THE SHORT LYRICAL GLIMPSES, THE EVAPORATING PIANISSIMO, THE FORTISSIMO THAT AWAKENS FROM TORPOR, THE MARVELOUS SIMPLICITY OF THE HARMONIC STRUCTURE"… THIS IS SATIE, FORERUNNER OF THE LATER MINIMALISM TOO. FOR PIANO AND FLUTE.

6. TROIS GNOSSIENNES - II. AVEC ÉTONNEMENT 00:02:01 THERE ARE TWO POSSIBLE SOURCES OF THE NAME OF THESE COMPOSITIONS: FROM THE ANCIENT GREEK WORD GNOSIS, KNOWLEDGE, OR FROM KNOSSOS, THE PALACE IN ANCIENT KRETE. IN ANY CASE THEY ARE A SORT OF METAPHYSICAL AND QUINTESSENTIAL DANCES. FOR PIANO AND FLUTE.

7. TROIS GNOSSIENNES - III. LENT 00:02:55 EVEN THE THIRD COMPOSITION SEEMS TIMELESS, GIVING US A KIND OF MELODIC AND HARMONIOUS HYPNOSIS THAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED AND WHICH HAS THE MAGICAL PROPERTY OF ATTRACTING THE LISTENER INTO A FEELING OF INFINITY.

8. LA DIVA DE L'EMPIRE 00:02:42 LA DIVA DE L'EMPIRE (THE DIVA OF THE EMPIRE) IS A FRENCH POPULAR SONG WITH MUSIC BY ERIK SATIE AND LYRICS BY DOMINIQUE BONNAUD AND NUMA BLÈS, COMPOSED IN 1904. ALONG WITH JE TE VEUX (1903) IT IS PROBABLY THE BEST-KNOWN EXAMPLE OF SATIE'S CABARET OR "CAFÉ-CONCERT" IDIOM. FOR PIANO SOLO.