Almost painfully poignant (titles include 'Domestic despair'), the tiny tone poems have an improvisatory feel; Tharaud injects narrative drama.

Featuring well-measured and perfectly weighted interpretations throughout by pianist Alexandre Tharaud...'Satie Discoveries' offers further evidence that there is still more to be rediscovered and appreciated in the music of this unique French figure who died 100 years ago.

In keeping with the Satie aesthetic, the pianist Alexandre Tharaud plays with transparency and detachment, occasionally assisted by Nemanja Radulovic’s violin...Nothing here will change the picture we have of Satie’s music and quirks. But Tharaud is an adroit performer, and it’s not every day that you can rummage through a composer’s drawers and see what’s there.