Satie/ Hao - Piano WorksSatie's personal eccentricities have never masked the fact that his music was both revolutionary and anticipatory of later artistic movements, principally Minimalism, Surrealism and Theatre of the Absurd. His piano music offers a perfect distillation of these elements. The Allegro is his earliest known work, offering his first use of quotations, a favored device. The extended pieces Le Fils des etoiles and uspud derive from incidental music, glorying

As Tamla Records in January 1959

He was a charming and unconventional man with a wild streak and a compulsion to test himself at every turn

a recently discovered BBC TV concert from 1975 and the full live session recorded for German Television Musikladen Show

Canning cites the "vastness" of the band's adopted home as a constant muse

It compiles a few different periods

Among them are luminaries such as a Peter Apfelbaum

Looking back now

Columbia and London labels

Jackie-O (Parker Posey The Eye)

workshops and master classes

We'd place it up there with Sergio Mendes at his finest

Canadian Opera Company