Gnossiennes
Avant-dernières pensées
Première pensée Rose + Croix
Prèludes du fils des étoiles
Chapitres tournés en tous sens
Gymnopédies
Le Piège de Mèduse
Reverie du pauvre
Je te veux
Prélude de "La porte héroïque du ciel"

Gramophone May 93, Christopher Headington:
(reviews Lenehan & Dickinson)

… Lenehan has also written his own booklet essay, and shows a penetrating insight into this wayward composer who pawky laconicism may owe something to his Scottish mother, althugh she died when he was only six. The title of this disc <The Son of the Stars> refers to the Rosicrucian music of one work on it, the three preludes from the "Chaldean pastoral" of 1891, Le fils des étoiles, that Satie possibly intended for other instruments but survives only as a piano score. As for the playing generally, Lenehan impresses me rather as Dickinson does, but also brings to the music a personal sensitivity and tenderness that is at once evident in the piece which opens his recital, the first of the Gnossiennes. What follows does not disappoint, either, although I'm not sure that it's a good idea to split the six Gnossiennes into two equal groups of which the second comes towards the end of the recital. Lenehan may have done this for fear of these similar pieces (which mostly resemble each other in mood, though not in notes) becoming monotonous; but that kind of "monotony" is part of Satie, and the Gymnopédies are more alike.

Inevitably, perhaps, they are on both of these discs, so are four other works. Yet despite the duplications, there are many things in Lenehan's recital that I would not want to be without, such as his moving playing of the Reverie du pauvre, his thoughtful account of Je te veux and the witty performance of Le Piège de Mèduse. He's also crisper and more brilliant than Dickinson in the first of the three Chapitres tournés en tous sens. This disc has a very natural sound. There are many mis-spellings among the French titles.