🇫🇷Erik Satie ： Socrate Sur les bords de l’Ilissus

This two-piano arrangement presents “Sur les bords de l’Ilissus,” a scene from Socrate based on Plato’s Phaedrus. Its appeal lies less in dramatic effect than in its concise, transparent writing, long-breathed phrases, and restrained shifts of expression. Rather than unfolding through abrupt changes, the music moves in a speech-like flow, gradually altering the way its sonorities overlap. The two pianists should coordinate their parts as though forming a single voice, while carefully distinguishing the melodies passed between them from the inner movement of the texture. Use the pedal without clouding the sound, preserving a natural breath and gentle sense of direction within the stillness.