Erik Satie's Vexations

[gvopedz]

“Erik Satie's Vexations — an enigmatic work that exists on a single printed page but devours many hours in performance — isn’t going back into hibernation after pianist Igor Levit’s recent highly-publicized streaming marathon. Only a minute-or-two long, but repeated 840 times, Vexations is alternately called minimalist, Dada-ist, or Outsider Art when it resurfaces every few years… “

 

https://www.wqxr.org/story/saties-vexations-visionary-creation-or-musical-stalker/

[mikeweil]

Vexations is the apotheosis of Satie's idea of musique d'ameublement - no more, no less. 

[JSngry]

 

[Hoppy T. Frog]

I like the new Noriko Ogawa recording, she varies each repetition just a little so it doesn't get boring. 80 minutes flew by in fact.