BBC Radio 3 Classical Live

The French composer Eric Satie wrote his Le Fils des étoiles (The Son of the Stars) in December 1891, as incidental music for a three-act drama of the same name by Joséphin Péladan. Péladan alternately subtitled his play a “Chaldean Pastoral” or a “Wagnérie Kaldéenne” – the latter referring to the author’s fascination with Wagner – and while only three short Preludes made the premiere, Satie’s arrangements of them for solo piano provided wider ex...