Braque and Satie

In this episode we look at the influence Erik Satie had on Georges Braque and look at the artist’s 1921 work ‘Guitar and Glass (Socrates) - Guitare et verre (Socrate)’, where Braque references parts of Satie’s score for his symphonic drama ’Socrate’. Braque shared a deep friendship with Satie and the work was born from this friendship.

We will hear Satie’s ‘Socrate’ in its entirety – a work that stands as a deliberate, serene antithesis to the dramatic excesses of 19th-century opera. 

We will also look at a lithograph by Braque inspired by the mythology of Ancient Greece – ‘Phaéton, (Chariot I)’, filled with symbolic power, and hear the symphonic poem of Saint-Saens on the same subject.