If Satie would have lived a happy life he would have never created this beautiful music, its his sadness and loneliness that created this. His melancholic life left us beautiful music. He is a masterpiece.
Je constate que la majorité des commentaires sont en anglais et nous en remercions nos amis anglophones. Satie a vécu, surtout à la fin, dans le pire dénuement. Rendons lui hommage alors que des soi-disant musiciens le pillent éhontément dans de nombreux films et téléfilms. Francophones, rendons lui tous ensemble cet hommage mérité afin que Satie soit un tant soit peu prophète en son pays. Merci pour et à lui lui.
Musica di 100 anni fa , che sembra scritta oggi. Compositore, unico , geniale. Triste che la sua musica sia stata riscoperta solo dopo tanti anni dalla sua scomparsa
"Only a born musician of the finest sensibility could have conceived these limpid and so essentially 'musical' pieces which ought to be in the repertory of every pianist who is more interested in music than virtuosity." - Rollo H. Myers
If you like Satie, I highly recommend Scriabin, especially his Sonata-Fantasy in G# Minor. ruclips.net/video/PhvCtRWgsLc/видео.html One of the most beautiful pieces, IMO.
I can just feel the pain in his soul...Erik Satie was a true genius at transmitting raw emotion with musical notes. Fantastic and painful at the same time...WOW!!!!
Never too late to listen to Erik, or take up a musical instrument and blow life into it for oneself ... try his, "Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel" for another view into his mind.
The benchmark of impeccable art is that it is both emotionally and intellectually fulfilling. The former does not preclude the latter. And picking apart music you love and discovering the infinite layers of wonderful things going on... man, it doesn't get any better than that.
Wow, now THAT is a very provocative and thought provoking statement... I just discovered Satie this morning, and was IMMEDIATELY moved to find out more about him....
estas dazas hacen que Satie sea mi compositor favorito, me recuerdoa el sonido del agua, simple y armonioso sin un fin de flujo, misterioso , melancólico y tranquilizante, me crea una atmosfera en la que vivió satie y me hace entender como debio haber vivido su vida en aquellas épocas en Francia
Reinbert de Leeuw is my favorite Satie interpreter .. I heard Satie for the first time played by him and it always feels like he has the right pace in most of his pieces.
Certainly three more times too fast in rythm to be able to express all thé melancholy langor of a soul out of step with the world towards thé end of the nineteenth century
The more I listen to other versions of this piece I feel like de Leeuw really nailed it. The slower pace draws the emotions out more completely and allows the listener to appreciate the atonal aspects more fully... it adds to the mysterious and gentle feel of the music. Regardless of who plays it, it's a sublime piece, without a doubt. My favorite solo piano work, hands down.
Oh man, I couldn't agree more, especially with Trios Gymnopedies. How slow he plays that may be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. And how Leeuw kind of slows down and speeds up, and plays soft, then loud. It really is the best performance of Satie that will ever be.
I agree wholeheartedly. At first I thought his interpretations of Satie just /sounded/ wrong, but after listening to them a few times, trying to listen to other recordings of Satie /feels/ wrong. Reinbert's interpretations /feel/ perfect.
Sorry, poor choice of wording. I should have said "slightly dissonant" or something like that. You know, the notes that seem both to not fit, and to fit, at the same time. I don't know my music theory so I'm sure I'm choosing the wrong terminology, but anyway, I'm sure you can guess what I mean.
Rosemarie Perks Que ce voyage musical vous conduise jusqu'à la douceur de Honfleur That musical journey leads(drives) you until the sweetness of Honfleur
once again!! these are much much better interpreted than most other ones heard here on youtube that are far too fast played, and almost mechanical, without any feeling at all.
Personally, I think it's a work deserving of more rubato than most people play it with. I've got a rubbish performance of 1 on my channel, but I want to do the whole work justice at some point. This guy's performance is amazing, but not how I'd play it, but that's the whole point of playing music for onesself, no?
I also think that Reinbert's versions are the best but I view it the opposite of you, most other players try to add their own feeling, looking to sound emotional and impressive which is not how Satie was. Reinbert manages to capture the depressive autistic mechanical style of Satie beautifully BY leaving out unnecessary "feeling"
Erik Satie, grande compositor e pianista, obrigado por lindas composições como esta. Com sua simplicidade e irreverência, se tornou um dos maiores.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I have discovered these pieces quite recently. I have been working them out by ear for the last month. I think this is the best way to do it. I struggle to listen to the changes but not as much as Eric would have in conceiving them. I really love these haunting melodies. They are easy to listen to but hard to understand because of the meandering key changes. But there is a kind of logic to it that I am hoping to understand - not yet alas. I think I might even rank him with Chopin.
I'd have to agree with you on that one. Number 2 is one of my favorite pieces of solo piano music in general. It's very simple, but there is so much beauty in the simplicity, and it's so rich harmonically.
Exactly , and thats whats so beautiful about this piece, it meanders. Theres minors and major progressions, open chords , tritones. He's vastly underrated, has a huge legacy and people should listen to a lot more than the gymnopodies. For me this has everything, and I love the pauses.
Chord color and timbre are all related to how we perceive sound and emotion. Just like you know that minor scales sound "sad", and major ones "happy." Dissonance causes tension, restlessness, and then moves back to consonance--resolution, a return to harmony. Satie's music has many layers, and they're all fascinating.
Composées en 1897, elles étaient de travers pour le siècle de Satie, mais n'étaient finalement qu'en avance sur leur temps... Et le mot "précurseur" prend tout son sens.
I've just learned these pieces, and the second movement is by far the easiest. The left hand often switches between 5th triads and 10th triads in all the pieces, forcing you to pay attention despite the hypnotic tonal colors. And there's a surprise in the third one for the left hand, as well.
Yeah this is at a nice tempo. I've heard a lot of pieces I like played too fast. To hear them played with the right feeling (subjective, of course) is a real treat.
My verbal interpretation: "The room was filed with people, ordinary people with ordinary stories and lingo. Exceptional at moments, yet so parishable each. Yes, very parishable, each of them. Repeating the same mental moments they already had thousands of times before. Repeating it like a broken record. Or like coocoo birds in love. Then, there was an unusal girl in the corner. Mystical at moments, I couldn't resist her nougaty eyes and soft language she used. Maybe it was love at first sight, who would know. Blent into the group of other repetitive people, we tried to talk. It was something different about her, and that's what caught his (mine) attention. But I digress, the whole party was a blur and very little things were indistinguishable from the others. Everyone in its own blur, everyone in its own enthusiastic and euphoric nostalgia. Every now and again there was a flash of light, flash of light that was more like a flash of mental light. But succumbing to the dullness and sinking more and more made me a bore again. Interesting party I might add.
Thanks for the upload, i like this piece at a slower pace. Unlike like all the people who remake it playing it somewhat faster. It's much easier to appreciate when it's played slower don't you think?
même "de travers" ces danses sont très "cool." on ne risque pas se prendre les pieds dans la nappe... j' adore les titres des morceaux d' Eric Satie. Bonnes valses ! mais sans ivresse.
Not true... a truly great piece of music is flawless both emotionally, AND when you sit down and analyse it. the more I pick this piece apart the more amazed I am at how Satie managed to put it together in such a seemingly effortless way.
La curiosidad me ganó, ya que el protagonista de la novela de Ampuero, "Los Amantes de Estocolmo" escuha este compositor. Y veo que la curiosidad es buena cosa.
After careful study and research on his music im becoming More and more convinced that Satie "knew" about cord/tone combination and its effect on the human brain.....just a thought
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I wrote a letter to my granddaughter Meaghan,please listen to this music,while,you rest awhile,it is enchanting,magical,mysterious and beautiful.
If Satie would have lived a happy life he would have never created this beautiful music, its his sadness and loneliness that created this. His melancholic life left us beautiful music. He is a masterpiece.
Erik satie is beautifully iconic his sadness has a hidden world of eternal beauty..... so beautiful and moving...
I think,
this is a ...response to sadness.
Erik Satie never give up to sadness.
His sense of humour witnesses
for that.
@@eislakkon3110 poverty is a little girl with big green eyes
It takes a man of equal caliber to understand the reason behind someone's suffering. And satie certainly didn't suffer from what "normal" people would
You don’t need to suffer to create great music. Perhaps there are other reasons why some people who create great music suffer.
Je constate que la majorité des commentaires sont en anglais et nous en remercions nos amis anglophones.
Satie a vécu, surtout à la fin, dans le pire dénuement. Rendons lui hommage alors que des soi-disant musiciens le pillent éhontément dans de nombreux films et téléfilms.
Francophones, rendons lui tous ensemble cet hommage mérité afin que Satie soit un tant soit peu prophète en son pays.
Merci pour et à lui lui.
La France et la musique, c’est compliqué. Ces pièces sont étourdissantes de modernité.
Modernità è la parola giusta. Perfino inquietante. @@vento182
Lo amiamo anche in Italia 😊 La vera Arte non ha nazionalità....e nello stesso tempo esprime e sintetizza il meglio di un'epoca e di un popolo, no? 😊
è la modernità quello che più mi lascia stupito; una musica di una bellezza eterea e senza tempo.
Musica di 100 anni fa , che sembra scritta oggi.
Compositore, unico , geniale. Triste che la sua musica sia stata riscoperta solo dopo tanti anni dalla sua scomparsa
For me this is healing music. It heals. I don't think I've heard anything more hauntingly beautiful than this.
I agree! Thanks for sharing!
🎹I am working on this piece right now. My hands are small, but I will persevere since this piece speaks to my soul, ❣
"Only a born musician of the finest sensibility could have conceived these limpid and so essentially 'musical' pieces which ought to be in the repertory of every pianist who is more interested in music than virtuosity." - Rollo H. Myers
Μusic than
virtuosity...
my friend
that's
a great truth
told in
3 words.
Right! ...we read Rollo Myers book 30 years ago....he was spot on.
It sounds so modern! Satie was way ahead of his time!
If you like Satie, I highly recommend Scriabin, especially his Sonata-Fantasy in G# Minor. ruclips.net/video/PhvCtRWgsLc/видео.html One of the most beautiful pieces, IMO.
I absolutely LOVE Danses De Travers II, the melody is both haunting and beautiful :)
mystery of the endless ..
Musica senza tempo e senza spazio, sembra fluire dal nulla, unico e meraviglioso❤️
Si
I can just feel the pain in his soul...Erik Satie was a true genius at transmitting raw emotion with musical notes. Fantastic and painful at the same time...WOW!!!!
If it's sure That thé ultimate mystery is unatteinable because unfathomable in measure, satisfed has revelead or rather, sensed, a corner
I love how he takes a sort of theme starting at 2:01, tries a different direction with it at 2:05, and then finds what he was looking for at 2:10...
Mystérieux et profond Satie !
il n' y à x de mystère.
il n' y a que l' énigme d ' il y à plutôt que rien
toujours .. ..
Why did I discovered Satie so late - This is the music of my life - a long way from traditional musical patterns - each note is surprising !!!
Never too late to listen to Erik, or take up a musical instrument and blow life into it for oneself ... try his, "Prelude de la porte heroique du ciel" for another view into his mind.
Alfred Éric Leslie Satie, one of my heroes of music ...
+citherplayer ... mine too.
And one of my heroes of life.
mine too.
citherplayer I'm not alone!
I love him amazing...
The benchmark of impeccable art is that it is both emotionally and intellectually fulfilling. The former does not preclude the latter. And picking apart music you love and discovering the infinite layers of wonderful things going on... man, it doesn't get any better than that.
In times of stress from life and work, I always come here and it always helps. Always. Beautiful. Please don't ever take this down.
So beautiful and strange. Kind of haunting. Makes me think of rainy churchyards and falling leaves.
Dark, charming, elegant, clever, with subtle rays of light that peek through the clouds. Singular!👌
Feels like floating on clouds...
Wow, now THAT is a very provocative and thought provoking statement... I just discovered Satie this morning, and was IMMEDIATELY moved to find out more about him....
estas dazas hacen que Satie sea mi compositor favorito, me recuerdoa el sonido del agua, simple y armonioso sin un fin de flujo, misterioso , melancólico y tranquilizante, me crea una atmosfera en la que vivió satie y me hace entender como debio haber vivido su vida en aquellas épocas en Francia
Reinbert de Leeuw is my favorite Satie interpreter ..
I heard Satie for the first time played by him and it always feels like he has the right pace in most of his pieces.
oui
possibly the most beautiful combination of notes ever played. and indeed slower is better oh thank you!!
Certainly three more times too fast in rythm to be able to express all thé melancholy langor of a soul out of step with the world towards thé end of the nineteenth century
Haunting. Beautiful. Thank you.
The more I listen to other versions of this piece I feel like de Leeuw really nailed it. The slower pace draws the emotions out more completely and allows the listener to appreciate the atonal aspects more fully... it adds to the mysterious and gentle feel of the music. Regardless of who plays it, it's a sublime piece, without a doubt. My favorite solo piano work, hands down.
I agree with you fully. This is actually my most played on my music of all time , and I listen to a lot
Oh man, I couldn't agree more, especially with Trios Gymnopedies. How slow he plays that may be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. And how Leeuw kind of slows down and speeds up, and plays soft, then loud. It really is the best performance of Satie that will ever be.
I agree wholeheartedly. At first I thought his interpretations of Satie just /sounded/ wrong, but after listening to them a few times, trying to listen to other recordings of Satie /feels/ wrong. Reinbert's interpretations /feel/ perfect.
There’s nothing atonal in this piece.
Sorry, poor choice of wording. I should have said "slightly dissonant" or something like that. You know, the notes that seem both to not fit, and to fit, at the same time. I don't know my music theory so I'm sure I'm choosing the wrong terminology, but anyway, I'm sure you can guess what I mean.
He transports me to another place.
Rosemarie Perks
Que ce voyage musical vous conduise jusqu'à la douceur de Honfleur
That musical journey leads(drives) you until the sweetness of Honfleur
I am in love with his music. It sounds oneiric, like they came from a very specific kind of dream.
Where ?to be certain . sometimes he transforms me to hell!!
Ce sont les meilleurs dances que je joue avec melancolie
J'aime tout ce qui est de travers, à rebours, à contre-courant!
on es tjrs héros cntr les "autres
So elegant.
The chords blend and then turn away but with harmony. The mood suggests a mysterious being enters the room and begins to explain what love is.
I think yours is the most accurate impression. Most people don't see the spiritual perspective!
@@Eric-rn1yf trop matérialistement attachés au 'monde'
Just spent the last 2 hours sight reading through these over and over agian. They are so enchanting. But thank god they're in C
once again!! these are much much better interpreted than most other ones heard here on youtube that are far too fast played, and almost mechanical, without any feeling at all.
in a rush, with no soul at all
Personally, I think it's a work deserving of more rubato than most people play it with. I've got a rubbish performance of 1 on my channel, but I want to do the whole work justice at some point. This guy's performance is amazing, but not how I'd play it, but that's the whole point of playing music for onesself, no?
he plays it slower and better
ruclips.net/video/QFRIULkTDGM/видео.html
I also think that Reinbert's versions are the best but I view it the opposite of you, most other players try to add their own feeling, looking to sound emotional and impressive which is not how Satie was. Reinbert manages to capture the depressive autistic mechanical style of Satie beautifully BY leaving out unnecessary "feeling"
Goosebumps every time.
definitely my favourite satie pieces. Number II especially.
Reinbert de Leeuw is the best Satie player, great!
I prefere giovanni maria varisce
He gave his life for it. I can feel it.
I loved this !!!
Perfect tempo. Lovely interpretation. Thanks for uploading.
Danses d'une infinie douceur...
Erik Satie, grande compositor e pianista, obrigado por lindas composições como esta. Com sua simplicidade e irreverência, se tornou um dos maiores.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
beautiful
mysterious
unique
satie
You should be a copywriter
The forerunner of what is now called ambient music. I marvel at the beautiful simplicity.
I have discovered these pieces quite recently. I have been working them out by ear for the last month. I think this is the best way to do it. I struggle to listen to the changes but not as much as Eric would have in conceiving them. I really love these haunting melodies. They are easy to listen to but hard to understand because of the meandering key changes. But there is a kind of logic to it that I am hoping to understand - not yet alas. I think I might even rank him with Chopin.
Beautiful 🎶🎶🎶💓
Myrtha m'a fait découvrir cette profonde mélodie, merci à elle ! C'est une SPLENDIDE artiste !
(Même si elle me dit "I'm not an artist")
C'est mélancolique...... C'est beau !!!
Essa música eleva a minha alma ... É uma sensação única e libertadora ... Indescritível Leveza ...
Una apertura al infinito ,para nosotros, criaturas finitas y caducas
I'd have to agree with you on that one. Number 2 is one of my favorite pieces of solo piano music in general. It's very simple, but there is so much beauty in the simplicity, and it's so rich harmonically.
This is so perfect.... i want this played on a special occassion in my life. not sure what yet.
Your funerals ?
Thank you very much for uploading this. Pure magic!
marvellous , magnifique Satie and Reinbert de Leeuw they are great
His music is so calming...why didn't I know of his music before?
That depends on how old you are and what access to his music you had. Or perhaps there was a conspiracy to hide this music from you!
whatt..!? wtf
Now you do
at the moment it's wonderful to listen to and think of life and how precious it is.
Exactly , and thats whats so beautiful about this piece, it meanders. Theres minors and major progressions, open chords , tritones. He's vastly underrated, has a huge legacy and people should listen to a lot more than the gymnopodies. For me this has everything, and I love the pauses.
Wow, this is just beautiful!
-one of my favourites!
エリックサティー...最初に出会ったのは中学生になって間もないころ、父親が選んで聴かせてくれました 衝撃的、かつ落ち着きました。又何かを求めて探し続けた。今もかな
Lindo, lindo, lindo!!!!
J'adore !
Sinto uma mistura de paz, nostalgia ao ouvir as músicas de Satie. Seria infeliz ou feliz?
A felicidade no ser-se) triste que tanto marca a humanidade.
Chord color and timbre are all related to how we perceive sound and emotion. Just like you know that minor scales sound "sad", and major ones "happy." Dissonance causes tension, restlessness, and then moves back to consonance--resolution, a return to harmony. Satie's music has many layers, and they're all fascinating.
Beautiful...
My Best favorite music.
unnn~.
Beautiful
Gracias
Exquisite, dark beauty.
Beautiful
I listen to this so often….I ques I finally starting to like 'real good music'. Its not to slow...It's Perfect!
This is a great work in that you can play it at any tempo and it works. I find this one at the slow end of the scale.
+Ken Nickels Most of Satie's work is written to be very slow and most of them even work ridiculously slow.
Brividi!
Music to pass away to
Composées en 1897, elles étaient de travers pour le siècle de Satie, mais n'étaient finalement qu'en avance sur leur temps... Et le mot "précurseur" prend tout son sens.
Very beautiful comment Olga. Very inspiring
GENIUS........❤️
Hidden Gem...
I've just learned these pieces, and the second movement is by far the easiest. The left hand often switches between 5th triads and 10th triads in all the pieces, forcing you to pay attention despite the hypnotic tonal colors. And there's a surprise in the third one for the left hand, as well.
Especially with the left hand jumping around, as it does in all Satie pieces. I just read through the second Gnossiene :P
Yeah this is at a nice tempo. I've heard a lot of pieces I like played too fast. To hear them played with the right feeling (subjective, of course) is a real treat.
My verbal interpretation: "The room was filed with people, ordinary people with ordinary stories and lingo. Exceptional at moments, yet so parishable each. Yes, very parishable, each of them. Repeating the same mental moments they already had thousands of times before. Repeating it like a broken record. Or like coocoo birds in love. Then, there was an unusal girl in the corner. Mystical at moments, I couldn't resist her nougaty eyes and soft language she used. Maybe it was love at first sight, who would know. Blent into the group of other repetitive people, we tried to talk. It was something different about her, and that's what caught his (mine) attention. But I digress, the whole party was a blur and very little things were indistinguishable from the others. Everyone in its own blur, everyone in its own enthusiastic and euphoric nostalgia. Every now and again there was a flash of light, flash of light that was more like a flash of mental light. But succumbing to the dullness and sinking more and more made me a bore again. Interesting party I might add.
perish = die
parish = a church administrative district
filled = full
filed = categorized, aligned, submitted, shaved down
Come to Brazil !
ERIK SATIE, THAT LIGHT WHO COME COME FROM DARKNESS HEART DEEPEST PLACE.
Thanks for the upload, i like this piece at a slower pace. Unlike like all the people who remake it playing it somewhat faster.
It's much easier to appreciate when it's played slower don't you think?
Very psychically liberating.
The master of dissonance. This is why some call his music mysterious, sad e.t.c.
oui, quel dommage, Il est brillant!
Thanks for the upload...
Cheers!
This tune should be far better known, its got everything, especially the little hesitant pauses.
cullyvan , tunes not tune
Read Roger Shattuck's book The Banquet Years for more details about Satie.
même "de travers" ces danses sont très "cool."
on ne risque pas se prendre les pieds dans la nappe...
j' adore les titres des morceaux d' Eric Satie.
Bonnes valses ! mais sans ivresse.
+Mariette Chabaud Moi aussi, ils font très dada ces titres, j'adore :) !
les français si cartésiens ont un aperçu si succinct de l'énigmatique musique de Satïe
Not true... a truly great piece of music is flawless both emotionally, AND when you sit down and analyse it. the more I pick this piece apart the more amazed I am at how Satie managed to put it together in such a seemingly effortless way.
je t'aime...
stregato dalle sue norte, la notte scorre inesorabilmte, senza rimpianti
This piece hurts so good. rrrnnnmm.
I can see it like that too.
All of SAtie
La curiosidad me ganó, ya que el protagonista de la novela de Ampuero, "Los Amantes de Estocolmo" escuha este compositor. Y veo que la curiosidad es buena cosa.
Whats that effect? This music is fascinating.
Wordless
After careful study and research on his music im becoming More and more convinced that Satie "knew" about cord/tone combination and its effect on the human brain.....just a thought
Intuitively
"Yo me llamo Erik Satie, como todo el mundo" (1866 - 1925)