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