Messe Des Pauvres (Mass for the Poor)

Album by Erik Satie

Messe des pauvres is a liturgical choral work (a Mass) by French composer Erik Satie, composed in 1895. Scored for choir and organ, it employs spare, modal melodies, austere harmonies and plainchant-like textures that reflect Satie's interest in religious and mystical atmospheres and occupies an early, transitional place in his career between his cabaret pieces and his later experimental approaches.
First released: 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Prelude de la "Porte Heroique du Crel"
    3:49
  2. 2.
    Gymnopedie No. 1
    2:35
  3. 3.
    Gymnopedie No. 2
    3:59
  4. 4.
    Gymnopedie No. 3
    2:08
  5. 5.
    Idylle
    0:59
  6. 6.
    Aubade
    1:31
  7. 7.
    Meditation
    0:52
  8. 8.
    Sur un Vaisseau / A Ship
    1:33
  9. 9.
    Sur une Lanterne / A Lantern
    1:32
  10. 10.
    Sur un Casque / A Helmet
    0:45
  11. 11.
    Tyrolienne Turque
    2:01
  12. 12.
    Danse Maigre
    1:36
  13. 13.
    Prelude Posthume
    3:44
  14. 14.
    Kyrie Eleison
    5:57
  15. 15.
    Priere des Orgues
    3:13
  16. 16.
    Commune Qui Mundi Nefas
    1:56
  17. 17.
    Chant Ecclesiastique
    1:38
  18. 18.
    Piere Pour les Voyageurs et les Marins en Danger de Mort
    0:53
  19. 19.
    Priere Pour le Salut de Mon Ame
    4:14
  20. 20.
    Portrait of Socrates (the Banquet)
    7:13
  21. 21.
    The Banks of the Ilissus (Phedre)
    7:23
  22. 22.
    The Death of Socrates (Phedon)
    17:39