Erik Satie/ Gerald Eckert

Ogives
2000

for
stringtrio
 
 
 
 
 

from the foreword:
 
 

This edition is an arrangement of the piano pieces “OGIVES” composed by Erik Satie in 1886. Even the title of the four piano pieces - OGIVE means arch (of a Gothic vault) - indicates Satie's preoccupation with Gregorian chants and medieval architecture.
Compared to the original, which already through the structure of the movement - for example the tone doubling - spans a large tonal space, which in turn is "filled" by the piano sound, the arrangement for string trio represents a concentrate leave original.
The intention of the arrangement was to try, on the one hand, to take over the "archaic" - which is inherent in the piano pieces - and on the other hand to transform the sonority generated by the characteristic piano sound into the specific, intimate sound of a string trio .