I'll never forget how enchanted I was when I heard Gnossiennes for the first time. I was 16 then and it'd take me almost 12 years to find out whose interpretation it was. Reinbert de Leeuw's work is the sound of Erik Satie to me.
me too, 1970...my fav is the rare Charles Miles on music heritage society, and RdL is right up there , maybe even better to some tastes...i have googled Charles w/zero success, but did find the LP on Discogs..
Oh wow, same here. I was, maybe 18 which would have been 1980 and I fell in love with Satie, bought this album at Tower Records and never looked back. So pleased to hear it again.
This LP was in heavy rotation on my parents' turntable when I was a child. Any other interpretation has always seemed too fast. This rendition never ceases to amaze me in times of happiness. ...and comfort me in times of malaise.
What an exquisite, sensual surprise to find the most beautiful interpretation by reinbert de Leeuw here on this channel. I possessed and treasured this record already on vinyl many years ago. United again..
yes, thank you! I have been hunting for a Satie LP for a long time, but when I try them out, many play his pieces with jaunty metronome steadiness. This one is much dreamier.
hi James! he is freaking out the best. A genius! Once i went to his concert in HET CONCERTGEBOUW. it was calm you and so relaxing listening to Mr THE LION PLAYING ERIK SATIE' S OUVRE and i just fall asleep!!! BIG SHAME VIRGINIA!!! have you ever been to one of the concert's and watch /hear Mr. the lion perform? My advice for you is: DO NOT FALL ASLEEP, JAMES
de Leeuw's interpretations was my first encounter with Satie. I feel like every other interpretation I hear now sounds like the pianist had too much coffee before playing.
I wasn’t aware he had died. I am sorry to hear that. I still vividly recall the first time I heard this, one evening on the radio, many years ago, sometime in the 1980s. I was mesmerized. I had never heard Satie played like that. I’ve been playing it off and on ever since.
Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel. I hadn’t head this in many years, and it’s one of my favorite pieces of music. Such a mystical style, one no one else has ever reproduced. (And now, somehow, I suddenly hear Charles Ives rising up out of it like some genie.) De Leeuw really makes every note matter. Every chord, every dissonance, every progression is set out in the open and laid bare on the table, as clear as day, as bright and cold as ice, reflected in a steel mirror: he puts it out there deliberately so we can contemplate it, the way one might contemplate a religious icon. I think Satie would have liked this performance. It feels *utterly Parnassian.*
I’ll never forget the first time I heard this, sometime in the 1980s. It was on the radio. I stopped what I was doing and just listened. I was familiar with the music, but I’d never heard it played like THAT! I thought, “Of COURSE! This is how it should be played!” I’ve listened to it ever since. That slow pace, and the changing, unexpected rhythms-notes being played when you don’t expect them, and others not played until AFTER you expect them. It is simply brilliant. I can’t even bother listening to anyone else playing Satie. I almost feel sorry for other musicians who do. I’m probably being unfair to them, but Reinbert de Leeuwenhoek is just the last word.
En vous baladant dans les prés du présent, vous pouvez cueillir des bouquets de fleurs folles et improbables, revenir avec de somptueux extraits de ce musicien sensible et écorché et dire que vous gagnez souvent du temps à ignorer tant de ces musiques contemporaines pour enfin gagner en sérénité !!
Thank you for posting. I had almost forgotten about Satie (whose music fascinated me in my youth) until I heard Fazil Say play the first three Gnossiennes at Wigmore Hall only last week. Equally slow and beautiful I think.
Hello, good morning, here for you Shinichi...how are you, how's everything?,Here listening to Erik Satie the Brilliant and mysterious Satie!🎧divine 👱🏻♀️ How are you!
This is probably the best interpretation of Satie I have heard yet. France Clidat for example couldn't play this. Like this. I get stressed by her Gnossienne.
heard this here and rushed out to get this album...satie needs and deserves this kind of tempo...the other version that equals this, but is only avail on vinyl, is an old MHS musical heritage society album by one Charles Miles, about whom i have been able to fine nothing , and from whom i have found no other recordings....
Too slow for me. It depends which version you hear for the first time I guess. But still beautifully played. Satie really was a master of the piano. There is usually a paradoxical hint of an almost happy melancholy .
fantastic. listening with headphones and i hear something resonating in the room. sounds almost like a jazz drummer playing gently. any ideas what it could be?
Perfection is rare but it happens. And when it comes in small pearls, the better. Thanking you is not enough but results from the traditional weakeness of words, sorry.
Once you go Reinbert you never go back.
so true. his play gives the composition so much more depth and character than anyone else's. just amazing.
It’s perfect
I'll never forget how enchanted I was when I heard Gnossiennes for the first time. I was 16 then and it'd take me almost 12 years to find out whose interpretation it was. Reinbert de Leeuw's work is the sound of Erik Satie to me.
me too, 1970...my fav is the rare Charles Miles on music heritage society, and RdL is right up there , maybe even better to some tastes...i have googled Charles w/zero success, but did find the LP on Discogs..
Oh wow, same here. I was, maybe 18 which would have been 1980 and I fell in love with Satie, bought this album at Tower Records and never looked back. So pleased to hear it again.
This LP was in heavy rotation on my parents' turntable when I was a child. Any other interpretation has always seemed too fast. This rendition never ceases to amaze me in times of happiness. ...and comfort me in times of malaise.
What an exquisite, sensual surprise to find the most beautiful interpretation by reinbert de Leeuw here on this channel. I possessed and treasured this record already on vinyl many years ago. United again..
One of the very few who can play these pieces at a slow tempo. He understands what he is playing.
yes, thank you! I have been hunting for a Satie LP for a long time, but when I try them out, many play his pieces with jaunty metronome steadiness. This one is much dreamier.
Only interpretation I will listen to. Only player that does it justice.
I've made that argument for years now, and fully agree with you. IMO, the ONLY pianist who should ever be allowed to play Satie.
Cannot agree more, that this player understands ‘perfectly’ and plays at what for me are the best tempo choices I have yet heard in Satie.
This is the true interpretation, instead of sounding like rushing it in order to catch the last bus, beautifully played:-)
My all time favorite Rijnbert de Leeuw Satie´s interpretatie. It tears my soul apart.
That’s because it’s so beautiful, the pace and the timing of the notes is perfect. 🙂
My favourite interpreter of Satie.
hi James! he is freaking out the best. A genius!
Once i went to his concert in HET CONCERTGEBOUW. it was calm you and so relaxing listening to Mr THE LION PLAYING ERIK SATIE' S OUVRE and i just fall asleep!!! BIG SHAME VIRGINIA!!!
have you ever been to one of the concert's and watch /hear Mr. the lion perform? My advice for you is: DO NOT FALL ASLEEP, JAMES
Everyone else seems to just rush through.
@@keithklassen5320 Totally agree.
Mine too
@@keithklassen5320 Totally agree
This gentle, slowish way of playing these pieces by Satie really does bring out the haunting magic. By far my favorite interpretation.
de Leeuw's interpretations was my first encounter with Satie. I feel like every other interpretation I hear now sounds like the pianist had too much coffee before playing.
@@OrqwithVagrant same here, years ago, but then they sound also good a little faster.
@@jasperchance3382No, for me, the slower the better🙂
Rest in Peace Reinbert, we won't forget your legacy.
I wasn’t aware he had died. I am sorry to hear that. I still vividly recall the first time I heard this, one evening on the radio, many years ago, sometime in the 1980s. I was mesmerized. I had never heard Satie played like that. I’ve been playing it off and on ever since.
Reinbert De Leeuw is one of the few guys all over the world that really understands what playing Satie means. Beautiful.
Totally agree, it’s beautiful
Unfortunately Reinbert de Leeuw passed away today.
on the way to heaven he may listen to his own interpretation of Satie. R.I.P Reinbert de Leeuw.
Sad to hear, a truly brilliant musician
Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel. I hadn’t head this in many years, and it’s one of my favorite pieces of music. Such a mystical style, one no one else has ever reproduced. (And now, somehow, I suddenly hear Charles Ives rising up out of it like some genie.) De Leeuw really makes every note matter. Every chord, every dissonance, every progression is set out in the open and laid bare on the table, as clear as day, as bright and cold as ice, reflected in a steel mirror: he puts it out there deliberately so we can contemplate it, the way one might contemplate a religious icon. I think Satie would have liked this performance. It feels *utterly Parnassian.*
I’ll never forget the first time I heard this, sometime in the 1980s. It was on the radio. I stopped what I was doing and just listened. I was familiar with the music, but I’d never heard it played like THAT! I thought, “Of COURSE! This is how it should be played!” I’ve listened to it ever since. That slow pace, and the changing, unexpected rhythms-notes being played when you don’t expect them, and others not played until AFTER you expect them. It is simply brilliant. I can’t even bother listening to anyone else playing Satie. I almost feel sorry for other musicians who do. I’m probably being unfair to them, but Reinbert de Leeuwenhoek is just the last word.
Totally agree🙂
D"une beauté simple et absolue. Aux créateurs décalés un grand merci. De Leeuw interprète magnifiquement ces pièces du grand Satie.
Satie captures silence in music. Beautiful.
QueenOfDreamsXxX my gosh, your comment is incredibly insightful- you're, the silence is an accompanying instrument.
You capture Satie in words. Beautiful.
nicely put
Slowly touch. Reinbert de Leeuw. The best Satie`s performance, for my.
the choice of tones and harmony is magical.. no words left from this earth to say what i feel
Actually the harmony is really simple and its interesting to sea how satie can creat a world of colours by only using 3 chords
No words equal his interpretation of this music
My favourite interpretation of Satie's work. He has fathomed the intricate simplicity. Just sublime.
This is the essence, perfect balance of tempo and silences.
En vous baladant dans les prés du présent, vous pouvez cueillir des bouquets de fleurs folles et improbables, revenir avec de somptueux extraits de ce musicien sensible et écorché et dire que vous gagnez souvent du temps à ignorer tant de ces musiques contemporaines pour enfin gagner en sérénité !!
This pianist totally absorbed and played this music perfectly
Tijdens de allereerste meditatieles die ik gaf in de jaren 80 was dit mijn favoriete meditatiemuziek.
The Divinity speaking through Reinbert de Leeuw. Millions of thanks! _/\_
Wow thanks for uploading! I really feel Reinbert de Leeuw gets Erik Satie's work brilliantly, the pace, the touch is perfect.
Satie is the only of the big French composers that for me, captures the sound of Paris itself, especially in these his early piano works.
Gespeeld door Reinbert om bij weg te kunnen dromen, in één woord fantastisch!
Ik heb ooit jaren geleden deze cd gekocht en er vele jaren van genoten. Dit kan naar mijn gevoel niet mooier gespeeld worden.
It can’t
Heerlijk langzaam. Ik blijf genieten van deze versie.
miraculeuse exécution,admiration profonde
Quelques notes bien agencées. Une respiration juste ce qu'il faut et l'on touche la grâce absolue
Thank you for posting. I had almost forgotten about Satie (whose music fascinated me in my youth) until I heard Fazil Say play the first three Gnossiennes at Wigmore Hall only last week. Equally slow and beautiful I think.
Satie’s music is my luxury tranqulizer.
Satie is a great Alchemist of the piano
Hello, good morning, here for you Shinichi...how are you, how's everything?,Here listening to Erik Satie the Brilliant and mysterious Satie!🎧divine 👱🏻♀️
How are you!
Thanks so much for posting these, this is just fantastic! I love the way this man plays Satie
It’s magical
de Leeuw's is the most compelling of all the versions of Satie's pianoworks I've heard. I love it. The others are lightweight.
This is probably the best interpretation of Satie I have heard yet. France Clidat for example couldn't play this. Like this. I get stressed by her Gnossienne.
GOLD STANDARD!!!
There must have been various memories of the tears shed while listening to Satie’s music.
Didyou have sophisticated tears？
Hearing this music makes me think that it could not have been written by human being ,so beautiful
Satie, Debussy, Ravel,(his piano works anyway) . What a joy to listen.
I found both LP in an old box at my moms.... beauty..
you make me jealous sir
Emmanuele
Wuu, i didn't know these are early pianoworks of him.
These are such elegant and dreamy~
master ;-)) of a heart! i love erik satie and i love the heart of reinbert, soooo fine!!
For me Erik Satie simply is the best
Beautiful
Prachtig !!!!
i GET A VERY MELANGOLISCHE MOOD.. BRINGS BACK GOODMEMORIES. MISS YOU:
helena a. & jelle kat & nicolien & elleke & holly & babs & rim & frank!!!
Nothing like the classics. 👍🏼
Estas versiones de ERIK SATIE son hipnóticas!
Whoah just stumbled on these amazing I'm just starting to learn some Satie and this is so inspirational :)
This and Sir Colin Davies 1967 version of Mozart's Requiem are so beyond everything else...
Fingerspitzengefühl...
enigma
strangeness of mystery melancholy
Jammer piano spelen is lastig, maar wo dit is zo mooi....
Zo ontzettend knap van Reinbert.
Obra de arte
my idol
heard this here and rushed out to get this album...satie needs and deserves this kind of tempo...the other version that equals this, but is only avail on vinyl, is an old MHS musical heritage society album by one Charles Miles, about whom i have been able to fine nothing , and from whom i have found no other recordings....
아름다움~~!!
I heard terrible interpretations of Satie's pieces before.
Reinbert de Leeuw offers the listener a pretty good interpretation I think.
Pretty good? You mean perfect!!!
As far as I can tell Erik Satie was the first Minimalist composser of note.
Redirected here after listening to his Via Crucis. Wow, don't think I've *really* heard to these Satie pieces until now.
podría subir por favor la parte 2 :)
Als je je ogen dicht doet, lijkt het alsof je zweeft, zo mooi...
Erik satie, the best!
Too slow for me. It depends which version you hear for the first time I guess. But still beautifully played. Satie really was a master of the piano. There is usually a paradoxical hint of an almost happy melancholy .
Too fast for me :)
@@vanodyssey1659 good call dude. 🙋♂️
Cant find this cd, i want it.
je te veux
Красиво
9:20
It's really a shame all those ads
Incredible
Qué pasó con el CD 2?
Where is part 2?
ruclips.net/video/slahwoLdEIE/видео.html
Something is wrong with part 2.
Listen to Alessio Nanni's interpretation, he understood the way of playing this much better
Most interpretations I find too fast an harsh. Nanni is just copying the consensus on how Satie should be played.
fantastic. listening with headphones and i hear something resonating in the room. sounds almost like a jazz drummer playing gently. any ideas what it could be?
a jazz drummer playing gently in your closet?
Yes I hear it too. Might it be the sound of the pedals? I'm not sure.
same resonances here :) /watch?v=qeqrUAxnlaE&index=3&list=PLULVLn3gSyHTs7U4nCtIVxYgeJbYfGE4x
it's just static, i guess
a fan ?
a bumblebee?
6.00
Love the sorta interesting sorta trashy album art. Btw nice slow Satie.
cette interprétation poussant le supplice de la douloureuse beauté, nul n'est indemne...
Too slow but Satie's Gnossiennes can take it! Thanks for posting.
In an odd and spiritual way this reminds me of Gurdjieff’s music, much heightened and improved….
Perfection is rare but it happens. And when it comes in small pearls, the better. Thanking you is not enough but results from the traditional weakeness of words, sorry.
Ok ok ok ok ok
13.45. 14.20
Die einzige Interpretation die mir wirklich gefällt.
10.00
Welcher Idiot ist darauf gekommen, mitten in Satie-Stücken Werbung zu schalten?
Dafür gibt es konsequent den Daumen nach unten.
very slow version..hurry ye we are BUSY people...!
아름다움~~!!