35 years ago my oldest said "I heard this. Do you know it?" and played. " Its Satie." says I, " Gymnopedie No 1." then " I don't know the rest." and started improvisations...... wondrous, better than Satie and even yours. A fortnight later her teacher died, and that spark in my daughter died with her. She just stopped playing.
I know this, was unable to play for many years after I found my mum's corpse...And getting back at it after so many years is far worse than starting from zero, your muscles are not what they were, your brain has no control but you still have your ears and what you ear is totally revolting crap...
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.
@@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.
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
@@BillGreenAZ Well, my alarms are not that soft, the intro of King Crimson's "Sleepless" (Bob Clearmountain mix) for the phone calls and Motorhead's Iron Fist for the weak up alarm...
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!!
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.
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.
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.
"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 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!
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.
@@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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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!
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.
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'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.
Thank you for emphasizing that this piece is in fact not easy to play well despite its slow pace and simplicity. I play it often but am never quite satisfied with my balance and expression. One false note and the spell is broken. Thanks also for the very helpful harmonic analysis.
Though I've heard his music many times, it was only just recently I researched to see who the artist was that wrote it. I honestly thought that it was written between the 50's and the 70's and was surprised that it was written in 1888. I'm not a musician, but I agree he was ahead of his time.
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.
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.
Satie is an underrated genius. Personally, I think he belongs with names like Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky because his music revolutionized western music.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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😊
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! 💖👏🏻
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.
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.
I am 55 and Satie is a new discovery of mine...his music is special I believe..it has a positive feel, optimistic, and the tempo is perfect for the atmosphere it creates.
2:04 As long as we have Gmaj7 and Dmaj7, if we want to find a "key" for it, the key is D Major: Gmaj7 is IVmaj7, and Dmaj7 is Imaj7 There are no other keys with these two "maj7" chords. This doesn't mean that the "sound" can't be G Lydian...
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 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.
This music is the the perfect mixture of nostalgia and melancholy for me. Both of those emotions are fairly understated in expression but deep in feeling, just like this piece. He was a deep thinker, but by this point in his life, his teachers made him believe he lacked the grandeur of a classical musician.
@@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?
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.
I was first introduced to Satie by Blood Sweat and Tears on their first album (back in the late 60s). Having listened to many takes on this work, Gymnopedie Nr 1 never grow tired of listening to the subtle changes in the performance as different pianists' approach the work. I consider this work to be one of the most beautiful compositions. Nahre's analysis was excellent; the work is complex and she does a fantastic job of presenting the simple complexity that Satie created.
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! 🙂
Everytime I hear this song I’m filled with such emotion. Happiness, sadness, feelings of melancholy, and longing for something I’ve never had, then with hope to someday find out whatever it is.
Gymnopedie no 1 was the first song I learned that I WANTED to play🖤 I was happy when you made the happy birthdays song vid in his style and seeing this video is a pleasant suprise to see🙂
This piece creates nostalgia in it's self. When you start is like being born, and when you get back to the initial chords its like aproaching death in peace with nostalgia intensifiying every note. + the fact that lots of us have heard it when we were babys (and the fact this music is so popular in pedagogic activities, only show how it manage to transcend comunication beyond words) :)
I am not a musician, but am highly 'musical' - and therefore this piece, for me, always demands that it be carefully heard and listened to in depth. Satie may have described it as "furniture music" but in precisely what context I am unaware; if he meant the kind of funiture which envellopes one in sensory delight, wrap around comfort and personal 'stillness' in order to appreciate it well, then perhaps that is true. Your performance is truly delightful and the analysis very informative. Thank you.
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.
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.
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 (!).
Thank you for offering your insight into this piece, along with a bit of historical perspective. The reference to “furniture” music linked this piece to current composers, in particular, Brian Eno with his exploration of what he refers to as “ambient “ music. Despite the goal of making background music, it always captures my attention when it’s played.
One way you can recognize Satie’s genius is the frequency with which it’s used in film music to create a mood and message. I love both #1 and #3 and I also love Gnossienne #3. Satie’s music is a delight and I thank you for showcasing this piece. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the other two pieces.
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 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.
I was transfixed by your performance of one of my all-time favourite piano pieces. I found it particularly interesting that you have to squeeze your left hand under your right at certain points. It can't be easy to do that while maintaining the delicate dynamics and tempo. Bravo!
35 years ago my oldest said "I heard this. Do you know it?" and played. " Its Satie." says I, " Gymnopedie No 1." then " I don't know the rest." and started improvisations...... wondrous, better than Satie and even yours. A fortnight later her teacher died, and that spark in my daughter died with her. She just stopped playing.
I know this, was unable to play for many years after I found my mum's corpse...And getting back at it after so many years is far worse than starting from zero, your muscles are not what they were, your brain has no control but you still have your ears and what you ear is totally revolting crap...
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
@@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.
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.
@@BillGreenAZ Well, my alarms are not that soft, the intro of King Crimson's "Sleepless" (Bob Clearmountain mix) for the phone calls and Motorhead's Iron Fist for the weak up alarm...
So happy to find a pianist who appreciates quiet beauty as well as virtuosity. Thank you.
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!!
Satire?
David Gilmour also… He’s not the fastest, not the hardest, but certainly the best guitar solos out there
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.
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.
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.
Bien vu, c'est une des oeuvres les plus difficiles à interpréter, même pour pianiste confirmé, tellement elle est riche et profonde!
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.
"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.
Satie is by far my favorite. He has so much to offer, his nocturnes are something out of this world.
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 😢
Nahre Sol is a genius!
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I absolutely adore your postlude! It truly fits the mood and tone of Satie’s piece while also being original and different.
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'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.
Thank you for emphasizing that this piece is in fact not easy to play well despite its slow pace and simplicity. I play it often but am never quite satisfied with my balance and expression. One false note and the spell is broken. Thanks also for the very helpful harmonic analysis.
That was lovely Nahre.
Though I've heard his music many times, it was only just recently I researched to see who the artist was that wrote it. I honestly thought that it was written between the 50's and the 70's and was surprised that it was written in 1888. I'm not a musician, but I agree he was ahead of his time.
Still easily in my top three music TH-camrs ever. Love this piece, loving the analysis.
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.
He’s definitely a genius. One of my favorite French composers from the impressionist period
2 geniuses in one incredibly beautiful rendering. Just beautiful.
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.
Wooow Nahre, amazing always amazing!!!!
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
Your original composition at the end- the hommage - is beautiful
Beautiful. Both Satie's and your composition.
“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.
Bill Evan's Peace Piece was clearly inspired by Satie and has all the jazz elements that you talked about
One of the most beautiful pieces of music!!!
I just love the utter peacefulness of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie.❤
The WHAT?
Love this melancholic peace. Also a fantastic hommage at the end.
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.
Beautiful video, from the breakdown to your homage. Well done
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.
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!!!
This piece is beautiful. What a wonder that so much can said with so little!
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😊
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! 💖👏🏻
Extraordinary ! Thank you ! What a beautiful trait d'union between classical and jazz music. Soooo nicely played and brilliant comments !
Wonderful video! I appreciated your performance of his music and so much of your version! Brilliance!
I loved listening to your insights and your beautiful playing. Magical. I also love your wonderful Postlude! 🎶♥️
Simple art is rarely simple… ❤
One of my favourite versions of this is on Alice Sarah Ott’s “Nightfall” 👌🏻
Gary Numan’s cover of this classic is absolutely astounding!! 🌹
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.
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.
I am 55 and Satie is a new discovery of mine...his music is special I believe..it has a positive feel, optimistic, and the tempo is perfect for the atmosphere it creates.
2:04 As long as we have Gmaj7 and Dmaj7, if we want to find a "key" for it, the key is D Major:
Gmaj7 is IVmaj7,
and Dmaj7 is Imaj7
There are no other keys with these two "maj7" chords.
This doesn't mean that the "sound" can't be G Lydian...
Furniture music! I love it.
Loved the Satie inspired jazz at the end! ❤
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 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.
Thank you for this great video and your passion for music!
This music is the the perfect mixture of nostalgia and melancholy for me. Both of those emotions are fairly understated in expression but deep in feeling, just like this piece. He was a deep thinker, but by this point in his life, his teachers made him believe he lacked the grandeur of a classical musician.
If I hadn't already liked the video I would have AGAIN when you talk about background music for your dog! Love this.
A lady of many talents.
I such a fan of these videos. She’s a great narrator, insider, teacher, interpreter to the world of piano. Glad to have subscribed.
I loved this explanation, your performance of this unique beautiful piece, and your post-lude at the end. Masterfully done!
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.
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.
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.
I was first introduced to Satie by Blood Sweat and Tears on their first album (back in the late 60s). Having listened to many takes on this work, Gymnopedie Nr 1 never grow tired of listening to the subtle changes in the performance as different pianists' approach the work. I consider this work to be one of the most beautiful compositions. Nahre's analysis was excellent; the work is complex and she does a fantastic job of presenting the simple complexity that Satie created.
The other two are also fantastic. I love how they seem to be 3 different perspectives on the same object
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! 🙂
One of my favourite pieces, this. It has a wistful quality that is so rare.
Everytime I hear this song I’m filled with such emotion. Happiness, sadness, feelings of melancholy, and longing for something I’ve never had, then with hope to someday find out whatever it is.
Gymnopedie no 1 was the first song I learned that I WANTED to play🖤 I was happy when you made the happy birthdays song vid in his style and seeing this video is a pleasant suprise to see🙂
This piece creates nostalgia in it's self. When you start is like being born, and when you get back to the initial chords its like aproaching death in peace with nostalgia intensifiying every note. + the fact that lots of us have heard it when we were babys (and the fact this music is so popular in pedagogic activities, only show how it manage to transcend comunication beyond words) :)
I am not a musician, but am highly 'musical' - and therefore this piece, for me, always demands that it be carefully heard and listened to in depth.
Satie may have described it as "furniture music" but in precisely what context I am unaware; if he meant the kind of funiture which envellopes one in sensory delight, wrap around comfort and personal 'stillness' in order to appreciate it well, then perhaps that is true.
Your performance is truly delightful and the analysis very informative.
Thank you.
I can't imagine this piece played better. Very beautiful. Everything it needs is there, and everything it doesn't need is not there.
It has no Development: a reaction to centuries of German Baroque and Classical Music. It was truly Revolutionary.
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.
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.
Great tutorial Nahre!!! Thanks 🙏
Your postlude is a beautiful response to one of my favourite pieces of the western canon
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 (!).
One of my favourite music of all time. Definitively on the top.
your piece at the end is absolutely beautiful and deceiving, love it
Analysis that comes from a true musician. Right on point.
Thank you for offering your insight into this piece, along with a bit of historical perspective. The reference to “furniture” music linked this piece to current composers, in particular, Brian Eno with his exploration of what he refers to as “ambient “ music. Despite the goal of making background music, it always captures my attention when it’s played.
One way you can recognize Satie’s genius is the frequency with which it’s used in film music to create a mood and message. I love both #1 and #3 and I also love Gnossienne #3. Satie’s music is a delight and I thank you for showcasing this piece. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the other two pieces.
Amazing, beautiful. One of my favourites. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working :)
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 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.
I was transfixed by your performance of one of my all-time favourite piano pieces. I found it particularly interesting that you have to squeeze your left hand under your right at certain points. It can't be easy to do that while maintaining the delicate dynamics and tempo. Bravo!
I cannot explain how gorgeous that hommage is.
I much appreciate the sophistication of your homage.
This is my all time favourite piece of classical music - it is pure and beautiful. Who cares what critics say, I certainly don't.
The beauty in the tones of the piano.
Thank you Nahre - I could listen to you play everyday - thank you - you brought a tear to an old man.
Thank you for bringing us another fantastic video, Nahre! Beautiful performances, and your Hommage a Satie is just gorgeous!
This piece always sounds beautiful on the classical guitar. I first heard this piece on the classical guitar.