Satie: Piano Works (Selection incls Gymnopedies)

The oddest man he had ever known, said Stravinsky, and certainly Erik Satie was a man apart, a genuine Paris bohemian in his youth who spent the last 27 years of his life in a spartan room to which his friends were never invited. His music is suitably unique, spare and sadly whimsical, and adorned with quirky titles such as Sketches and Provocations of a Portly Wooden Man.