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The Polignac Salon

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Plato was a perfect collaborator, very gentle and never importunate.'
(ERIK SATIE , 1917)
The Princess de Polignac was a student of classical Greek. Out of her enthusiasm was born the strangest of her musical commissions, a setting of passages from Plato to music by Erik Satie. Today's programme tells the story of the collaboration between the Princess and the composer of Socrate: records
Written and narrated by Piers Burton-Page

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Erik Satie
Music By:
Erik Satie.
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Piers Burton-Page
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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