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Footnotes: Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman
25 Jul 2025

Footnotes: Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman

Spoken WordClassical

Author Ian Penman selects some tracks from the world of his latest book, Erik Satie, Three Piece Suite, with excerpts read by NTS host PAM. This round of NTS Book Club was run in collaboration with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Ian Penman is a British writer, music journalist and critic. His first original book, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize for Literature and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2024. Erik Satie Three Piece Suite is his second original book.

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Tracklist

  • 0:00:00
    Entremont, Satie, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Gymnopédie No. 1
  • 0:03:20
    Erik Satie
    Gnossienne No. 1
  • 0:07:01
    Satie, Reinbert de Leeuw
    Sarabandes
  • Erik Satie
    Carrelage Phonique (Phonic Tiling)
  • Erik Satie, Stephen Whittington
    Tapisserie En Fer Forgé
  • Miles Davis
    Blue In Green
  • Bill Evans
    I Wish I Knew
  • Erik Satie, Klara Kormendi
    FĂȘte DonnĂ©e Par Des Chevaliers Normands

  • Erik Satie, Pascal RogĂ©
    Embryons Desséchés
  • Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert De Leeuw & Erik Satie
    Socrate, Portrait De Socrate
  • France Clidat & Érik Satie
    Gnossienne No.1 Lent
  • Debussy, François-JoĂ«l Thiollier
    La Cathédrale Engloutie
  • Carla Bley
    Dreams So Real
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Satie
    Gymnopédie No. 2