This is one of the rare cases where the repeat is absolutely essential part of the music. In the first round our mind is taken on a mysterious journey without a clear harmonic direction. In the second round the mind has accepted the absence of a harmonic center as the new normality and it really starts to feel at home. Listening to a 'conventional' piece of music right after this one feels uncomfortably in your face. At least this is how I feel about this piece and that is one reason why I really love the music of Satie.
@dot5730
Жыл бұрын
im too fucking high for this shit ill respond tomororw
@ekcrisp1
Жыл бұрын
not so rare
@dot5730
Жыл бұрын
yeah i agree
@lanehowell605
Жыл бұрын
I Love Your Description ~!💜
@ognjendzomba4364
Жыл бұрын
Nicely said
@hawkbirdtree3660
Жыл бұрын
This was written in a time when music was becoming more about the performer than the music itself. Satie was a true artist
@goofoffchannel
4 ай бұрын
I resent that. The music should be paramount
@Homer7921
3 ай бұрын
@@goofoffchannelthe individual performance should always be center IMHO, more room for interpretation and style which breeds interesting arrangements coming from the performer. The music is a vehicle.
@michaeltagor4238
Жыл бұрын
I LOVE how his music is never not relevant, every few months/weeks I found people talking about Erik's music on the internet and it warms my heart, he's a legend and should always be remembered as one
@eriksatieofficiel
Жыл бұрын
Thank you my friend.
@przemysawkusmierczyk9513
Жыл бұрын
@@eriksatieofficiel We thank you, Mr. Satie. By the way, would you declare yourself a Colorist or Melodist?
@eriksatieofficiel
Жыл бұрын
@@przemysawkusmierczyk9513 A colourist (but only in white)
@BillGreenAZ
Жыл бұрын
I discovered this piece on my phone, as a song for an alarm.
@jameslovelady7751
Жыл бұрын
So happy to find a pianist who appreciates quiet beauty as well as virtuosity. Thank you.
@bevygaines
5 ай бұрын
I just love the utter peacefulness of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie.❤
@Balleehuuu
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for give someone like me with no background in music an insight on why I may love this piece so much, without knowing why.
@usageunit
Жыл бұрын
I'm a piano beginner and literally just made a recording of this a few days ago. Learning the notes is easy enough, but making it sound good is a lot harder. It's definitely a piece that makes you appreciate dynamics and perfect the synchronization of your key presses.
@ivankolobov9502
Жыл бұрын
Satie is by far my favorite. He has so much to offer, his nocturnes are something out of this world.
@shelterit
Жыл бұрын
Love your version. Been a Satie nut my whole life, got countless versions of all his music, and I swear his music is the one that I find people most often get wrong; there's a tenderness to it that needs to be coupled with madness, where madness is allowing the notes to breathe and sing, madness for the player in particular. Thanks! Loved it, including your own piece that has that Satie spirit.
@sitarnut
Жыл бұрын
Right on, Bro... grooving on Satie since 1972 introduced to him with the Blood Sweat and Tears LP and then wonderfully, Frank Glazer's three LP VOX BOX set. Satie seems a delicious madness I need. Another primo LP is the Camarata Group on the "Velvet Gentleman" LP - Peace out.
@Scriabin_fan
Жыл бұрын
Satie is an underrated genius. Personally, I think he belongs with names like Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky because his music revolutionized western music.
@eriksatieofficiel
Жыл бұрын
I'm blushing rn
@pabloricardodetarragon2649
Жыл бұрын
He is not underrated. he is simply different. Satie is appreciated by millions of people, played by thousands of musicians, studied in hundreds of music schools, and a lot of compositors have been inspired by him. Aldo Ciccolini registered astounding records of Satie's compositions, even the lesser known as Enfantillages Pittoresques which were sold by hundreds of thousands.
@NoName-zn1sb
Жыл бұрын
"changed music history" yer gonna need a time machine to do that
@wh0racle3
Жыл бұрын
calm down there. I like Satie too but he is not up there with Beethoven lol
@eriksatieofficiel
Жыл бұрын
@@wh0racle3 who's beathovnen
@adamjacksonmedia
11 ай бұрын
Satie is like Ringo from the Beatles. He’s not interested in displaying his instrumental athleticism. But what he composes as a piece of music is perfection. And holy smokes… that was one of the most moving renditions of Gymnopedie I’ve ever heard!!
@snoutysnouterson
2 ай бұрын
Satire?
@davidwhite2949
Жыл бұрын
He’s definitely a genius. One of my favorite French composers from the impressionist period
@channalbert
Жыл бұрын
I cannot explain how gorgeous that hommage is.
@myriamdeclercq1320
Жыл бұрын
It strikes me that your goal is to write background music for your dogs... Wonderful! Three years ago I used the first minute of this gentle melody as a background to a short video I had recorded of my old Spanish greyhound who meanwhile had died. To me it was the only music I could have used because of her tender and poised nature. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
@CarlitoManchego
3 ай бұрын
Very sorry for the loss of your Doggo 😢
@mabdub
Жыл бұрын
Your inspired addition at the end is extremely beautiful I wish you would expand where you were going. I'm sure that Satie would have loved your development because it makes so much sense and isn't over done, you've respectfully kept the true flavor of the original music. You play with such grace.
@II-V-I
Жыл бұрын
You can never be sure about what Satie would've liked. I guess he would have made the rule that you could only play the postlude every 754th time and naked sitting on the roof of a gothic cathedral 😂
@gohangoku3447
Жыл бұрын
I only play piano as a hobby and have zero idea about notes & co., but taught myself to play by "listening" (no idea how else to describe it). What I want to say is: When I played Satie for the first time, even I as a layman thought "something is different here. something is so mysterious here that I can't describe it". The melodies just somehow go into the subconscious and nudge something there. It's just indescribable.
@LYLEWOLD
Жыл бұрын
To my ear, Satie sounds like a hint of Jazz and Ragtime that would follow. I love this piece, and everything Satie I've ever heard. My favorite pianist to play Satie is Klara Kormendi (she plays on many of Naxos' Satie recordings). I think your version captures the pathos and wistfulness the way hers does, and is equally good. Thanks for adding to my love for Satie.
@owlperchedsilo3745
Жыл бұрын
Satie's music has to be the deepest of all the great classical composers. his music takes me somewhere else whenever i listen. makes you feel sad in a good way...haunting, i love music like that. Satie is the King of Melancholy.
@father3dollarbill
Жыл бұрын
People say that but I never heard or felt melancholy or sadness or anything of the sort.
@owlperchedsilo3745
Жыл бұрын
@@father3dollarbill , it's everywhere in Satie's music, everywhere.
@pjmlegrande
Жыл бұрын
@@father3dollarbillI agree, definitely not sad. It’s incredibly evocative of a contemplative mood for me…I’m not thinking consciously of anything, but experiencing everything around me on a deep sensory level. When hearing the piece, I often have a picture in my mind of walking across a field toward some trees on a light overcast spring day. The diffused sunlight has a slight glow, imbuing everything with a strange vividness. Sort of a synesthetic experience.
@kimlodrodawa123
Жыл бұрын
@owlperchedsilo3745, If you read the story about Satie and a little history of time and era from where he grew up and lived, then I think you will better understand this sadness and yet joy there is mixed in such a fantastic way. The suffering Satie went through, certainly shines in his music.
@owlperchedsilo3745
Жыл бұрын
@@kimlodrodawa123 , i have probably read everything on Satie, super fascinating.
@soilmanted
Жыл бұрын
Satie may have claimed that he was trying to create "background music," but this particular piece is something that pulls me in, and has me listening more intently, and focused, than anything else I can think of. It produces a feeling of wonderment: just what is it that I am hearing? Especially those dotted half notes from the left hand, sometimes just speaking "all by themselves," that draw me into listening to the timbre of the piano strings that have been struck to produce them, all the harmonics produced by those 2 or 3 unison-tuned strings producing the "note." I can't explain exactly what it is that I am trying to communicate, but those single tones function for my "inner ear" the way that chords usually do, and awaken my "internal sound;" my "internal sound" resonates with the tone produced by the piano strings. It is kind of as if, by listening to this "background music" one is directed to listen to one's self (notice I did not write _oneself)_ and not so much to the music. So yes, "meditative." Part of the enjoyment of listening to this pieces is this particular piano, the timbre of this piano that Nahre Sol is using. The lower register seems very nice, even on my inexpensive little speakers.
@danbrooklin
8 күн бұрын
I accidentally first read your phrase "feeling of wonderment" as "feeling of wanderment". "Wanderment" may not be a word- but it applies here I think.
@DaveTexas
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely adore your postlude! It truly fits the mood and tone of Satie’s piece while also being original and different.
@AJC508
Жыл бұрын
Whenever I hear this, my mind sees jellyfish swimming. No idea why. A fantastic piece of music. Pared down to the extreme, yet full of emotion. Masterful.
@terryallen7356
11 ай бұрын
Beautiful. Both Satie's and your composition.
@oneirdaathnaram1376
Жыл бұрын
Dear Nahre, You have such a great gift of explaining hidden functionalities of music in such an understandable way. The elegance by which you propagate the secrets of music always touches me. Thank you so much. A.
@ikibaru
Жыл бұрын
Back then when I was still teenager, this is the only classical music that I really enjoyed listen to, as it could take my mind wondering. It evokes a peculiar feeling like missing someone/something that I never met - in a loving kinda way. It's right in the feels. Isn't that the true magic of music? Underrated, indeed. Thank you for this video!
@888-dial-a-djentertainment3
Жыл бұрын
I am drawn back to Satie again and again. You are spot on. This piece is unusual. It seems simplistic and it is not. It has depth, it’s hauntingly beautiful in its slowness, in it’s melody and in it’s movement. Thanks for playing it and discussing it and illuminating why this piece is a gem and why Satie is brilliant.
@bidoofismyking8962
Жыл бұрын
I feel the same way about Doctor Gradus as Parnassum
@roachunter
Жыл бұрын
If I hadn't already liked the video I would have AGAIN when you talk about background music for your dog! Love this.
@giuseppepapaleo1004
Ай бұрын
That postlude was FANTASTIC
@BillGreenAZ
10 ай бұрын
I like how you say we don't even know in places which chord Satie is playing in. I especially like the progression of chords in such a small space, especially the minor chords.
@tommonk7651
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a musician and can't play anything, but I really love this piece. I've got a number of recordings of it. One thing I notice that pianists seem to have trouble with is varying the tempo of the piece. I think the tempo is really hard to get right. It's "simplicity" sets it apart from much of classical music, as you pointed out. It's just so relaxing and contemplative.... Lovely homage.
@estranhokonsta
Жыл бұрын
One of my favourite music of all time. Definitively on the top.
@ericrobertsmusic
Жыл бұрын
Your channel has pulled me back into the classical piano days of my youth. I really enjoy your thoughtful theory analysis and your playing is quite beautiful.
@gerryjamesedwards1227
Жыл бұрын
One of my favourite pieces, this. It has a wistful quality that is so rare.
@wittwfiii
Жыл бұрын
The beauty in the tones of the piano.
@johanschoeman869
Жыл бұрын
I loved Sartie's work the first time i heard Gnossiene 1. Thank you for a brilliant lecture on his most famous piece of work.
@TeagueChrystie
Жыл бұрын
Still easily in my top three music KZitemrs ever. Love this piece, loving the analysis.
@Pipewrench5
Жыл бұрын
If you have little interest in playing or listening to piano, this video offers a full glass of appreciation. Her voice style and delivery, the grace of her finger movements and the quality of the tone being presented by her mind and hands offers a level of peace that is a gift from God!!!
@daveallen5065
Жыл бұрын
Bill Evan's Peace Piece was clearly inspired by Satie and has all the jazz elements that you talked about
@arielspalter7425
Жыл бұрын
Analysis that comes from a true musician. Right on point.
@declarkson
Жыл бұрын
2 geniuses in one incredibly beautiful rendering. Just beautiful.
@ShelbyBryant
10 ай бұрын
Your original composition at the end- the hommage - is beautiful
@paulalancaster1
Жыл бұрын
I've heard this piece performed maybe hundreds of times by now, but never more beautifully than this - possibly never as beautifully AS this. Just when I thought this overworked warhorse of the piano literature had no more to offer me, here comes Nahre to demonstrate quite otherwise. Just leaned back in my chair and sighed gently with pleasure through the whole piece. And, it added so much value for me to see your hands on the keys and to follow along on the score. If there are better examples of successfully combining education and aesthetic beauty, I don't know about them. Thanks so much, Nahre.
@Bronco541
Жыл бұрын
Your piece at the end was beautiful
@paulsimon6544
11 ай бұрын
Nahre Sol is a genius!
@mtacoustic1
Жыл бұрын
Always thought that the best description of this song is 'melancholy'. Sort of like being in a really pretty and scenic place on an extra beautiful day; but for whatever reason you are alone and still alone as the sun goes down; and you feel like the experience solo has been wasted. My quintet performed this song at a wedding (!).
@alidabaxter5849
2 ай бұрын
Purely as a listener, I have always found these pieces quietening, as though they reach into your soul.
@terenzo50
Жыл бұрын
Always a pleasure. He was certainly ahead of his time and wonderfully eccentric. Next came Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.
@donaldaxel
Жыл бұрын
Excentric? He had two grands - perhaps got one free and put it on top of the one he aldready had. Can anyone verify this story?
@dustinholland6700
Жыл бұрын
@@donaldaxel That's some of the least of his absurdities. Have you heard about his supposed diet and daily schedule, or his various fashion choices throught his life, or, of course, the umbrella thing?
@sakuragi9607
Жыл бұрын
Debussy the best
@TheloniousCube
Жыл бұрын
Weren't he and Debussy contemporaries?
@terenzo50
Жыл бұрын
@@TheloniousCube Yup.
@Steinmetal4
Жыл бұрын
"Not ambitious"... great way to put it and why I kinda slept on this one in my younger years. You only really learn that "life is about just being, not trying to be anything" stuff until later. Incidently, that's when this song starts to have appeal.
@johnogilmorejr6691
Жыл бұрын
This has been my favorite piece of music since I first heard it over 50 years ago. It's become a dear old friend. Thank you for this delightful exploration and explanation and your homage too.
@slummymind6169
11 ай бұрын
Love this melancholic peace. Also a fantastic hommage at the end.
@faevoryn6578
Жыл бұрын
Loved the Satie inspired jazz at the end! ❤
@ucntcit
Жыл бұрын
i was mesmerized by this and its good to see you doing well. satie was my kind of composer because, at least in this piece, he made music from himself and not from structure. coming from that more natural place provides music that can be more felt than structured music.
@pauljmeyer1
Жыл бұрын
I much appreciate the sophistication of your homage.
@exquisiteoath
Жыл бұрын
Your postlude is a beautiful response to one of my favourite pieces of the western canon
@aloc23
Жыл бұрын
this was actually the first piece i ever learned to play on the piano.. learned it from a youtube video.. shortly after i started to get classical piano lessons and got to learn sight reading, technique and much more.. you could say this piece brought me to playing the piano, so it always has a very special place in my heart.. great video!
@JamesGowan
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! I appreciated your performance of his music and so much of your version! Brilliance!
@brady5829
Жыл бұрын
Feels like one day, I will see "Sol" in big text on the front of a programme, and read about this youtube channel inside it. Phenomenal postlude, I would definitely purchase an album of you performing the Gymnopedies with your additions.
@mrdjangofreeman5560
Жыл бұрын
Extraordinary ! Thank you ! What a beautiful trait d'union between classical and jazz music. Soooo nicely played and brilliant comments !
@kianom894
Жыл бұрын
Nahre you have such an amazing gift in sharing your musical insights with the world, I am mesmerised by your feather like hand movements over the keyboards. I loved your compositions on definite genres/ composers, and thank you for your innovative, gentle & constructive approach in making classical music relevant. At the age 50 I’ve started learning piano again, you are truly an artistic motivation to many others….. bravo😊
@greenvelvet
9 ай бұрын
Just goes to show, the more simple a piece is, the more you can be absorbed into it. Virtuosity doesn't automatically equate musicality
@marks8437
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video, Satie is one of my favorite composers. I love his songs because, instead of sounding like a composition, it sounds like I'm interacting with his energy. Erik Satie was a genius at immersing you in the song. You don't just listen to Satie, you experience Satie.
@Burnsomatic
Жыл бұрын
I can't imagine this piece played better. Very beautiful. Everything it needs is there, and everything it doesn't need is not there.
@freethinker79
Жыл бұрын
Had heard Gymnopedie 1 here and there for years, but never knew who the composer was until fairly recently. Once I found out it was Mr. Satie, I did a deep dive into his entire works, and have never looked back! He's easily my favorite composer now. Nothing else in the "classical" genre moves me quite like the way his music does. Everything else just seems lackluster in comparison, of course with a few exceptions here and there. He really is in a league all his own. And I'm glad to see him finally getting the credit he always deserved.
@marketads1
Жыл бұрын
Always reminds me of b/w French films of the ‘50s and early ‘60s. Brilliant.
@pyannie6904
Жыл бұрын
your enthralling beauty, your artistry, sensitivity, gentleness is so wonderfully unforgivable.
@apachie2k
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful video, from the breakdown to your homage. Well done
@stratfanstl
Жыл бұрын
It's fascinating to hear someone not only perform music with such nuance but explain how the original composer straddled the point between conventions of their time and places counter to those conventions to create something of lasting value.
@AndrewB281
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed your postlude. Very measured and controlled while expressing freedom and lightness. Bravo!
@donpeterson7
5 ай бұрын
One of the most beautiful pieces of music!!!
@mikedevlin2048
Жыл бұрын
Simple art is rarely simple… ❤ One of my favourite versions of this is on Alice Sarah Ott’s “Nightfall” 👌🏻
@elderhiker7787
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. That was beautiful. The first time I heard this was at a guitar recital in Washington DC in 1975. I have loved it ever since. It one of my top five compositions.
@gitaaa7740
9 ай бұрын
This piece always sounds beautiful on the classical guitar. I first heard this piece on the classical guitar.
@DoctorRevers
Жыл бұрын
Amazing, beautiful. One of my favourites. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working :)
@tomjensen618
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant piece. The love of life's complexity in sound.
@bh5606
Жыл бұрын
A lady of many talents.
@JoriDiculous
Жыл бұрын
I have loved Gymnopedie since i was a kid. Took me years before i found out what that wonderful quirky thing was. And of course after i found who wrote it i found all his other amazing works as well, like Gnossienne. Both pieces are so simple and complex all at once. Even more so when you listen to all of them. Not sure how many of Gymnopedie , but Gnossienne is at least 1 - 5: For some lovely Versions: John & Steve Hackett - Shades of Satie. (Guitar & Flute).
@eriksatieofficiel
Жыл бұрын
I have composed three Gymnopédies and seven Gnossiennes. All on my channel.
@KevinRoddy
Жыл бұрын
I play this on both the pedal and lever harp. I consider it a wonderful, atypical piece of music that probably everyone has heard, but they haven’t really listened to it (not as a musician interested in the piece would). Nahre’s observation and analysis of the lack of a tonal center was something I had not thought about myself. I consider this piece a ‘night’ piece to play, as it has a dreamy, and dark quality - not a negative dark, but a blurry, dreamy dark.
@TonyKindred-pd8kw
Жыл бұрын
That was lovely Nahre.
@rgarlinyc
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful. just wonderful Ms Sol - i thoroughly enjoyed your exposition and then the performance of Satie's piece itself. Your added hommage à Satie was a joyous and unexpected addition - a pure delight. So elegant, calming - I closed my eyes and felt I was floating... Thanks a gazillion! 💖👏🏻
@privatenexus5764
Жыл бұрын
Its a personal thing, but to me, this is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I know of. As soon as you start playing it, I cannot stop it. It was also interesting to see your hands, I have the sheet music and am slowly trying to learn it; its on my bucket list!. I never previously realised that the left and right hands cross over and even hit/share the same note. As a very poooor keyboardist, the difficulty for me is the left hand hitting the bass note and then jumping to the chord, with the same index finger being two octaves up (accuracy, muscle memory), and having the right hand play the melody acting as a diversion to the accuracy of my left. Im sure if others see/hear me, they would say thats the least of my concerns for misplaying the piece. Did I mention I was a poor player? the speed of the music makes me think I should be able to do this.
@fernandocruz1393
8 ай бұрын
My favourite piano piece. Heard the first time in a cartoon show and I immediately looked for it. That’s how captivating this piece for me. This is the soundtrack of the universe when it’s being created.
@nedgrant918
Жыл бұрын
It has no Development: a reaction to centuries of German Baroque and Classical Music. It was truly Revolutionary.
@koenraad4618
Жыл бұрын
A couple of years ago I heard Satie for the first time from a collection of French composers. Satie's music is special, so easy going and essential, it does something other music does not.
@lisadonovanlukas
Жыл бұрын
I loved listening to your insights and your beautiful playing. Magical. I also love your wonderful Postlude! 🎶♥️
@alejandroaragoncr
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful postlude!
@grahammcrae4277
Жыл бұрын
I such a fan of these videos. She’s a great narrator, insider, teacher, interpreter to the world of piano. Glad to have subscribed.
@johnnyx53
Жыл бұрын
I loved this explanation, your performance of this unique beautiful piece, and your post-lude at the end. Masterfully done!
@zwd7156
2 ай бұрын
Agreed. Satie was brilliant. Anyone who would disparage him or his work does not comprehend beauty. And yours is a lovely performance, as always.
@racker9999
Жыл бұрын
Great gratitude for the serendipity of stumbling upon your beautiful discussion/performance/interpretation. Your presentation made me glad to be alive this afternoon. Thank you.
@classicsciencefictionhorro1665
Жыл бұрын
This piece played in My Dinner With Andre, a movie far ahead of its time and brilliant.
@skane3109
Жыл бұрын
Nahre, I have listened to hundreds of your videos.I’m hardly alone. You have many many gifts, but there is a single overarching one. A unique and rare one. You lift us up.Thank you.😊
@PabloVestory
Жыл бұрын
Great video analysis and playing, as always, thank you so much! That superb composition of yours Hommage a Satie very well could be hommage to Bill Evans and Lyle Mays too! 🙂
@brett1354
Жыл бұрын
Developing the postlude into a fully fledged piece would not be a waste of time. Love your playing.
@Argyll9846
Жыл бұрын
This is my all time favourite piece of classical music - it is pure and beautiful. Who cares what critics say, I certainly don't.
@markhenrysplayroom
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. I learned this piece and I do love it's quiet nature. And I used to get comments like boring or dragging or it's too easy. I still love playing it.
@chewgumer
Жыл бұрын
Your beautiful music is a real find for me & will enlighten my life for a very long time, for others too.
@Apollo360XD
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful piece. It has happy and sad tone at the same time
@cryoge
8 күн бұрын
Just came across this channel, because I love the all 3 gymnopedie's so much - and I really enjoy your display of those skills!
@chazm3
Жыл бұрын
There is one crucial challenge for the performer how to deal with the overlapping melody vs accompaniment F#. The way you played it just made it sound like the melody note was repeated.
@morgane.rytmik.gautier
Жыл бұрын
Your Hommage was just magnificent!
@etiennelantuit7845
Жыл бұрын
So instructive, clear and soothi ng. You're a great teacher Nahre.
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