What Makes Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie SO GENIUS?!
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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.
im too fucking high for this shit ill respond tomororw
not so rare
yeah i agree
I Love Your Description ~!💜
Nicely said
This was written in a time when music was becoming more about the performer than the music itself. Satie was a true artist
I resent that. The music should be paramount
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
Thank you my friend.
@@eriksatieofficiel We thank you, Mr. Satie.
By the way, would you declare yourself a Colorist or Melodist?
@@przemysawkusmierczyk9513 A colourist (but only in white)
I discovered this piece on my phone, as a song for an alarm.
Satire 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!!
So happy to find a pianist who appreciates quiet beauty as well as virtuosity. Thank you.
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.
I feel the same way about Doctor Gradus as Parnassum
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.
Satie is by far my favorite. He has so much to offer, his nocturnes are something out of this world.
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.
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!
Very sorry for the loss of your Doggo 😢
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.
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.
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.
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.
People say that but I never heard or felt melancholy or sadness or anything of the sort.
@@father3dollarbill , it's everywhere in Satie's music, everywhere.
@@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.
@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.
@@kimlodrodawa123 , i have probably read everything on Satie, super fascinating.
Satie is an underrated genius. Personally, I think he belongs with names like Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky because his music revolutionized western music.
I'm blushing rn
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.
"changed music history" yer gonna need a time machine to do that
calm down there. I like Satie too but he is not up there with Beethoven lol
@@wh0racle3 who's beathovnen
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
I absolutely adore your postlude! It truly fits the mood and tone of Satie’s piece while also being original and different.
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.
Always a pleasure. He was certainly ahead of his time and wonderfully eccentric. Next came Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.
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?
@@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?
Debussy the best
Weren't he and Debussy contemporaries?
@@TheloniousCube Yup.
He’s definitely a genius. One of my favorite French composers from the impressionist period
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.
Still easily in my top three music TH-camrs ever. Love this piece, loving the analysis.
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! 💖👏🏻
While I think your postlude goes against the spirit of Gymnopedie, it’s one of the most beautiful things I think you’ve written.
yeah... as if she just couldn't resist adding more than satie would have added, but the piece comes out brilliantly in the process.
That was the point. She said she would take some of the elements and expand on them. She didn't keep the spirit of it, she kept some of the compositional elements. You are right that it was damn beautiful, and I immediately looked for the first comment that said so. 😊
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😊
Simple art is rarely simple… ❤
One of my favourite versions of this is on Alice Sarah Ott’s “Nightfall” 👌🏻
Wonderful video! I appreciated your performance of his music and so much of your version! Brilliance!
Absolutely loved the postlude you created! So beautiful, expressive, and Satie-esque. I also really like the format you've been making your videos recently, even more fluid and organized!
Thank you for bringing us another fantastic video, Nahre! Beautiful performances, and your Hommage a Satie is just gorgeous!
So glad you picked this piece for analysis…it is one of my all-time favorites. Your variation at the end was amazing and gorgeous to listen to.
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.
Wonderful as always, Nahre. I particularly enjoyed the mention of the modal ambiguity and analysis mapping.
Extraordinary ! Thank you ! What a beautiful trait d'union between classical and jazz music. Soooo nicely played and brilliant comments !
I such a fan of these videos. She’s a great narrator, insider, teacher, interpreter to the world of piano. Glad to have subscribed.
Love this melancholic peace. Also a fantastic hommage at the end.
So instructive, clear and soothi ng. You're a great teacher Nahre.
“Elegantly weird” is such a great summation of Satie! I enjoyed your slightly jazzy extrapolations, and it reminds me of how well Satie’s work lends itself to jazz interpretations. In particular, the Jacques Loussier Trio recorded some excellent renditions of the Gymnopedies and Gnossienes, and though they take the music away from the concept of furniture music, they’re beautiful in their own way.
I loved this explanation, your performance of this unique beautiful piece, and your post-lude at the end. Masterfully done!
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.
Beautiful video, from the breakdown to your homage. Well done
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).
I have composed three Gymnopédies and seven Gnossiennes. All on my channel.
That was beautiful! You played the piece wonderfully and what you added to the piece at the end there brough tears to my eyes. How lovely!
Your original composition at the end- the hommage - is beautiful
The beauty in the tones of the piano.
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.😊
I feel like Studio Ghibli owes M. Satie a lot - this has that same dreamy blissful or sad feel that their sound tracks (plus images) generate. I really liked your defence of Sadie’s music and although I have no background or training, the clips of much more famous pieces of the same time period really made your point. Your improv was lovely and I loved seeing the dog featured here as in the short. I actually think music that dogs love is a very worthy goal, because they deserve it and if you could do it you’d feel fantastic. Thanks for this whole thing, I really appreciate.
I listened again to your hommage just now and it’s lovely. I hope it is tremendously satisfying to write and play something like that because it’s really a treat to hear.
I think mention of Joe Hisaishi is relevant to many lovers of music with their range of deeply memorable themes both Satie and Hisaishi both have created. In the age when film media was in its early development, Satie, indeed Gymnopedies would’ve been a perfect match for co-creatives. As identified in the musical analysis and biography of Erik, he would’ve been a challenge to work with on many levels, his style was unique and groundbreaking and all this was in the an artistic maelstrom that was Paris in the early 20th century.
@@Mudge07Joe Hisaishi is basically Ghibli's household composer.
I’ve always loved this piece, thanks for breaking it down Nahre 🙌🏻
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.
Really enjoyed your postlude. Very measured and controlled while expressing freedom and lightness. Bravo!
Very beautifully done and best detailing the piece. Great performance. Thank you.
2 geniuses in one incredibly beautiful rendering. Just beautiful.
I always find Nahre's analyses fascinating, and I love hearing her creative postludes, based on her amazing understanding of the composers' style and harmony. Thanks, Nahre!
I loved listening to your insights and your beautiful playing. Magical. I also love your wonderful Postlude! 🎶♥️
Lovely to hear. Your rendition at the end was great.
One of mt favorite performances of my favorite classical piece. And a wonderful demonstration. Thank you!
Lovely. I love seeing and hearing you perform. Thanks...
Great tutorial Nahre!!! Thanks 🙏
Wonderful hommage ! Thank you.
Nahre, I like how your remarks cover such a wide range of appreciate topics on music, from history, harmonic analysis, performance tips, composer intensions and so much more. I love your narrative because you also extend your comments with such clear examples on the piano.
I think musicians and music lovers alike can benefit from your channel. This should include pianists and non-pianists as well.
Many viewers are looking for inspiration and education. You clearly offer both in such a clear, concise, pleasing delivery.
Bottom line. You are very talented and the world is much better because you had the courage to share your gifts in this electronic medium.
Bless you❤
Oh yeah, classic Nahre greatness: insightful explanation of the theory, beautiful performance and an amazing own composition at the end. Love it!
Thank you for this analysis and the beautiful homage at the end
"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.
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.
One of the most profound experiences of my life that took place at a decisive, course-altering moment in my mid-20s involves this piece, which became for me emblematic of a new settling and integration after a period of deep inner turmoil. So I greatly appreciate your sensitive, respectful, illuminating treatment of the piece -- and I celebrate what you achieve in your hommage. Thank you, Nahre!
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you, this was wonderful and educational. Your postlude is gorgeous, dreamy... Loved it ❤
Wooow Nahre, amazing always amazing!!!!
Thank you Nahre - I could listen to you play everyday - thank you - you brought a tear to an old man.
Beautiful. Both Satie's and your composition.
Simply GREAT 😍😍 Thank you for your inspiring videos!!
"...satie's music is dismissed because it lacks form, virtuosity and gravitas" Imagine being able to write a piece of music that is this amazing, regardless of whether or not it is virtuosic, has form or gravitas.. How do people not understand that THAT is a big part of what makes him so legendary.
Amazing, beautiful. One of my favourites. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working :)
That was lovely Nahre.
Fantastic thoughts on this wonderful piece of art. Thank you for sharing!
A really beautiful episode on a really beautiful channel. Made me cry a little. Thank you !
Loved the Satie inspired jazz at the end! ❤
I much appreciate the sophistication of your homage.
Absolutely beautiful video, thank you so much for putting all of that work into your content, I truly enjoy it
Absolutely beautiful, your interpretations, thank you
your enthralling beauty, your artistry, sensitivity, gentleness is so wonderfully unforgivable.
Always loved this piece. Thank you for so artfully presenting & performing it, and your lovely hommage.
wow the postlude was gorgeous! you're such a beautiful writer!
Really love this, Nahre - I just started re-exploring this fascinating piece. It's amazing how modern it sounds and complex it really is. Thanks so much for great deep-dive.
Nahre Sol is a genius!
One of the most beautiful pieces of music!!!
Beautiful postlude!
Thank you for this great video and your passion for music!
I love your videos and I thank you for the dedication and effort to maintain the high standard of quality that you have in choosing content, recording, editing and explaining things with such tranquility and efficiency.
Beautiful. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Beautiful performance, spot-on analysis
Fascinating analysis! One of my favorite pieces by Satie. Nahre, your piece at the end is beautiful. That downward shift in the fourth bar gave me chills!! Superb!!!
You should check out my third Gymnopédie, way better than the first.
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.
Beautiful Nahre!
One of my favourite pieces, this. It has a wistful quality that is so rare.
Thank you Nahre. Thats one of my favorites to play.