It’s not really as exciting as it may seem. When I began studying with him and
subsequently becoming good friends, I decided that I should begin moving from
the LPs I had of his work to the CDs on his own personally supervised label. So, I
have all of his compositions and spoken word discs - many of which he would give
or send to me with greetings and signatures - along with DVDs, scores, books,
music boxes and other sundries. Keeping discs together of a similar nature is not
natural for me, but it helped to have them together for studying purposes.
Anyway, since Jan. 19, I’ve been boxing things up - especially books and audio -
because we’re having some major work done here on the house soon after getting
back from Knoxville. I’d just literally finished boxing up those discs last night.
It’ll be kind of bare-looking around here. The sitter will probably be shocked.
As for Satie, I would highly recommend the Aldo Ciccolini set. If you’re able to
spring for the 56-disc set of Ciccolini’s complete EMI recordings, I’d say go for that too.
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