performances either. Ornella Volta likewise quoted Satie as saying they were "a secret between the performer and myself". Satiean scholarship has mostly taken him at his word. But the charm and absurdist wit of Satie's commentaries have always beguiled certain advocates into combining spoken word with the music. As early as 1917 American critic Carl Van Vechten proposed that the texts should be a vital component in presenting the suites, allowing the audience to share in the fun.<ref>Carl Van Vechten, Interpreters and Interpretations, A.A. Knopf, New York, 1917. Cited by Alan M. Gillmor in "Musico-poetic Form in Satie's 'Humoristic' Piano Suites (1913-14)". Canadian University Music Review / Revue de musique des universitéscanadiennes, No. 8, 1987, pp. 2-4.</ref> Possibly the first documented example of this took place at the Sorbonne in Paris on December 7, 1925, during a Satie tribute concert that was broadcast over French Radio PTT. The program included Jane Mortier performing unnamed works of his for "piano parlé" ("talking piano"). Author Caroline Potter mused, "Perhaps it is significant that Mortier waited until Satie had died before carrying out this experiment". Since the 1950s the idea of interpreting Satie's humoristic suites as works for narrator and piano has clung most tenaciously to Sports et divertissements, due in part to the popular efforts of American composer-critic Virgil Thomson. But it remains a minor trend. Most mainstream concerts and commercial recordings let Satie's music speak for itself. Recordings Notable recordings include those by Aldo Ciccolini (three times, for Angel in 1957 and 1968 and EMI in 1987), Jean-Joël Barbier (BAM, 1967), Frank Glazer (Vox, 1968, reissued 1990), France Clidat (Forlane, 1980), Anne Queffélec (Virgin Classics, 1988), Pascal Rogé (Decca, 1989), Yitkin Seow (Hyperion, 1989), Peter Lawson (EMI, 1989), Jean-Pierre Armengaud (Mandala, 1994), Klára Körmendi (Naxos Records, 1994), Bojan Gorišek (Audiophile Classics, 1994), Olof Höjer (Swedish Society Discofil, 1996), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Decca, 2003), Håkon Austbø (Ddd, 2005), Cristina Ariagno (Brilliant Classics, 2007), Jan Kaspersen (Scandinavian Classics, 2007), Alexandre Tharaud (Harmonia Mundi, 2009), Jeroen van Veen (Brilliant Classics, 2016), Noriko Ogawa (BIS, 2016). Notes and references External linksHeures séculaires et instantanées'' on YouTube - https://youtube.com/VWfOieRheYQ Compositions by Erik Satie 20th-century classical music Compositions for solo piano 1914 compositions