Erik Satie called Vexations ‘simple, yet arduous’. Igor Levit will be the first pianist to perform it solo in public.

From his ambient Gymnopédies to his posthumously published Vexations, here are some of Erik Satie's most extraordinary works.

As Erik Satie’s epic ‘Vexations’ comes to London, we recall other marathon feats, involving Marina Abramović, John Cage and F ...

Penman does not impose an all-encompassing thesis. He avoids reading Satie’s life through the often overstated lenses of his ...

The notorious piano work Vexations by the smiling prankster of modern music Erik Satie is aptly named. What could be more ...

Without the burden of straightforward biographical inventory, this inventive work of criticism sheds new light on the composer’s life ...

Famed for his minimalist works, classical pianist Erik Satie envisioned a new approach to his work that anticipated ambient music by several decades.

As the journals of the American writer Joan Didion (based on conversations with her psychiatrist) are published, writer and journalist Rachel Cooke and Alan Taylor, editor of actor Alan Rickman's ...

Amid the experimental and cross-genre collaborations of this year’s Multitudes festival, one event stands out as a challenge to both performer and audience alike: a 16-hour marathon concert of Erik ...