i'm listening to this high, and for the first 5 minutes i was staring intently at him playing, watching his hands and face, and noticing the slow, subtle camerawork, before i realized i was looking at a still image »,,»
ERIK SATIE is the master of slowness, the slow as an important facet of the art of music - and Leeuw is the only one, that I heard till now, that perfectly comprehended this. I was lucky to discover Satie with him. It seemed, by the time, when I began listening to the 1st "Gnossienne", that the flow of time had stopped around me... it was magic. It was hard , after, to listen to other interpreters!
i fully agree man same thing happened with me everything around me kinda stopped and i felt stillness in myself. it is his slow playing that I love, cant listen to others now
I found a lightness in myself that I have never felt, an inner peace that I did not think was achievable. it truly is a transcending experience to be graced by Satie and Leeuw. I am happy to hear that there are many others who have felt encapsulated in the incredible beauty that exists in this music.
When i listened to Leeuw's play of early Satie works for the first time i found the Gymnopedies were played muuuuch too slow (the version from 1977). i was a teenager then when i discovered him. now, 20 years later, i *bath* in his melancholic, deep & breathing interpretation. he seems not just to play but to *live* each note. as if de Leeuw had composed those pieces...
I'm totally with you Thomas. I had exactly the same experience; apparently this music has to "grow on you". After listening to Anne Quefelec's (extremely hasty) recordings of Satie, I re-discovered the sheer beauty of Mr. De Leeuw's work. The magic is in the silence. It's interesting to compare this older recording of the gnossiennes with a much more recent one (plus fascinating footage) called: "Reinbert de Leeuw - Erik Satie/ Gnossiennes 1-6 (live @TivoliVredenburg Utrecht)". Mr. De Leeuw's "hesitations" are magnificent and hard to reproduce (as amateur pianist). I have nothing but respect for him.
Too true about Mr. de Leeuw. I like to play Satie on the fiddle, but it was de Leeuw's excellence, individualism and tastefully lyrical nature that inspired me not to be lazy about it and to attempt to do it (hopefully) reasonably gracefully and artistically. Overall, the best way to play Satie seems to be to do so as artfully individualistically as one can...one way or another...a bit peppy OR a bit "slow." There is no, singular "correct" way to play Satie. But that generous open-endedness is half the fun. Vive Satie! And (additionally) vive de Leeuw!
My favorite Satie performer, by far. To me it's always been music of solitude; I can't imagine what it would be like to experience it like this, in a room with many people all tuned in and hanging on every note.
Reinbert is the premier interpreter of Satie. Whoever heard the Gymnopedie No. 1 played with such existential reverence? It’s like a lullaby from some future civilization in his hands. I am very sad to discover Reinbert died last year. I listen to his recordings frequently-I wish I could have told him how much musical serenity he brought to me, especially on lonely or rainy days.
This is better than the studio recording. De Leeuw is without a doubt the best performer of this deep music. He really gets the spirit of it. Also the acoustics are very good. I wonder where you found it. This is wonderful, I just keep listening.
Why are people always dying of the flu during his performances - out of every pianist I have ever heard- Satie of all people they go to hear while they have swine flu fr- de Leeuw had bad luck for that
Thankyou for this marvellous delight. Reinbert's take on Satie is , for me, exactly right. And this performance is transcendent in its precision. I feel blessed.
The disrespect for tempo is actually extremely interesting . Makes the piece somewhat universal , this man interpretation suits me just fine for how I perceive Satie´s work : delicate , wild , melancholic and oniric that is .
thanks for this, and for removing the applause...plus, i have never hear or heard of the ogivies before. what a magical treat. wow, this is by the the best Satie interpretations i have heard. Satie is so easy to play, but so hard to interpret and play well....thank you....
Some years ago bought a cd of Satie. Did not know who was R. De Leeuw. Did not know was the best interpretation of the 3 Gymnopedies and all Gnossiennes. De Leeuw used to play Satie slow, to give me time to feel and think, dont know what. Greetings from Rome Italy
I wrote that for someone I closely know who deserves a horrific punishment, albeit perhaps in a slowed extrasensory form of tantalising and unreachable love as in an ayahuascan experience - a glacial regret he'll have to endure for choosing to hurt instead of love. That trip incidentally was one of the best experiences in my life. It's cool you had such deep studies in the Amazon.
I loooove how slow he does Gnossiennes. It does add an air of pretentiousness, and I feel like he gets a bit too playful with his difference, obviously there are a couple mistakes also-but it’s still absolutely lovely, I love it.. esp compared to idiots playing it with nun but grandiosity and unneeded speed.
Gentlemen, a moment of attention, gentlemen! Look how touchingly the image on the preview echoes the image on the avatar, that adds additional harmony to the ambience of the present release. Thank you
Amazing how such a static piece can be played with such emotion (ogives) being it is my favourite, deep inside i feel as if Satie would have played it SLOWER for that transcendental and spiritually uplifting feel that arises out of the isolation in between the chords.
schon immer Satie Fan gewesen, auch die de Leeuw Platten gehabt, aber diese live Aufnahme atmet noch mal viel lebendiger Saties Geist. Die Geräusche betonen den Live Charakter der Aufnahme, darin die unendliche Stille in Saties Raum, die Leeuw uns eröffnet, gerade in den Ogives... Danke!
His performance‘s splendor of words can not arrive These sound reached deep into my soul , shook me to my core, and gave me deep comfort and healing and emotion From A corner of Tokyo
Never heard this particular Satie piece before, but how lovely its interpretation: such feeling, and caressing of both notes and pauses that leave one remembering moments of tender love and expectation for more.....
En écoutant Ogives, tout à coup j’avais l’impression que Messaien n'aurait jamais pu exister si Satie n’avait pas vecu avant. Et pour ceux qui s’étonnent aux titres drôles liés à ces morceaux tellement célestes, il suffit de se souvenir que le vrai contemporain de Erik Satie, c’était Richard Wagner. Bien, on ne riait pas de tout aux héros ridicules de ses opéras gonflés. Mais on riait à Paris: on riait toujours chez Satie. Il zieutait à l’avenir, à l’époque qui finalement est devenue la nôtre.
IMO, the only pianist who should be allowed to play Satie. He slows the tempos perfectly to allow the pieces to breathe and develop. Every other pianist I have ever heard plays Satie too quickly.
Good point about de Leeuw's excellence. But you might like recordings by Ciccolini, as he "got" Satie very well too. That stated, although I would not condone such a creatively potentially cruel (and difficult to enforce!) restriction, it is true that many pianists who deign to interpret Satie sometimes do so in a way that tries to be too show-offy and, at times, pointlessly virtuosic...instead of simply allowing the music to be lyrical and enjoyable. To each his own, but (yes) some interpretations are not so pleasant to behold. There may be no single "correct" way to interpret (fast/slow) any one work by Satie, but his works ought to be (one might hope) lyrically and artistically engaging without any inartistic, stressed-out extremes. With Satie, generally subtlety and tastefulness are the answer - that is unless the piece requires some lighthearted and hilariously shocking POUNDING, as is sometimes the case. But the occasional sardonic pounding just adds to the overall entertaining contrast. Vive Satie!
It's fucking curious the imense contrast between the deep profoundity, seriousness, of almost all of his work, Satie's, and the deliciously dadaistic humour of his titles! Why, "The Dreamy Fish"... Really... Even in his personal life, you see, in most of his photos, he's a funny face... ("The Dreamy Fish" is one of the few of his with a humouristic atmosphere in the sound, too!)
It's beautiful. A pity there are always people who seem to be determined to mark their presence by coughing very annoyingly, at the cost of Music, and others. They should leave when they cannot help it or never attend concerts in the first place, when it's a matter of ego.
I did not care for one of the Gnosiennes (I think number 2) going SOOOO very fast, but otherwise it is very, very beautiful. Probably my favourite so far. Definitely among the top 5. Thank you for sharing!
Played, way too slowly. As if playing for the 'Hearing Impaired' and the tempo is slowed so that the Signer can Sign the Notes to the audience.....Geez....I've heard stronger beats in Cardiac Intensive Care Units....LoL
So sorry to hear of his passing away, so grateful of his awesome interpretation of Satie which will live on forever.
i'm listening to this high, and for the first 5 minutes i was staring intently at him playing, watching his hands and face, and noticing the slow, subtle camerawork, before i realized i was looking at a still image »,,»
Same exact feeling haha and it’s crazy how I realized it suddenly when he started playing forte
FAR OUT YOU WERE, MAN, SHIIIIIIIIIIIT! I ought to listen to Leeuw playing Satie high. Never tried it before.
Perfect combination
im not getting that, but this performance certainly does get me out there. satie is at once mellow and weird, like dreams.
Very lively picture for sure!
If I have to choose, I'l pick him for the Satie's interpret. No one match this kind of spiritual delicacy. Thank you for this lovely and rare upload.
ERIK SATIE is the master of slowness, the slow as an important facet of the art of music - and Leeuw is the only one, that I heard till now, that perfectly comprehended this. I was lucky to discover Satie with him. It seemed, by the time, when I began listening to the 1st "Gnossienne", that the flow of time had stopped around me... it was magic. It was hard , after, to listen to other interpreters!
i fully agree man same thing happened with me everything around me kinda stopped and i felt stillness in myself. it is his slow playing that I love, cant listen to others now
But it’s not laborious and overly slow as some play it. He gets it right.
@@evangelinecalland360 it is absolutely perfect. I am so grateful for these pieces of music
I found a lightness in myself that I have never felt, an inner peace that I did not think was achievable. it truly is a transcending experience to be graced by Satie and Leeuw. I am happy to hear that there are many others who have felt encapsulated in the incredible beauty that exists in this music.
You have hit the nail on the head. No one else online has the respect Reinbert gave. Exactly, the other "interpreters" are misunderstood.
When i listened to Leeuw's play of early Satie works for the first time i found the Gymnopedies were played muuuuch too slow (the version from 1977). i was a teenager then when i discovered him. now, 20 years later, i *bath* in his melancholic, deep & breathing interpretation. he seems not just to play but to *live* each note. as if de Leeuw had composed those pieces...
I'm totally with you Thomas. I had exactly the same experience; apparently this music has to "grow on you". After listening to Anne Quefelec's (extremely hasty) recordings of Satie, I re-discovered the sheer beauty of Mr. De Leeuw's work. The magic is in the silence.
It's interesting to compare this older recording of the gnossiennes with a much more recent one (plus fascinating footage) called: "Reinbert de Leeuw - Erik Satie/ Gnossiennes 1-6 (live @TivoliVredenburg Utrecht)". Mr. De Leeuw's "hesitations" are magnificent and hard to reproduce (as amateur pianist). I have nothing but respect for him.
Here's the link to that recording. th-cam.com/video/5bIeYqpn0Gk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you❤️. Great stuff & thx for your fine words.
@@yellowclouds3722 You are most welcome.
Too true about Mr. de Leeuw. I like to play Satie on the fiddle, but it was de Leeuw's excellence, individualism and tastefully lyrical nature that inspired me not to be lazy about it and to attempt to do it (hopefully) reasonably gracefully and artistically. Overall, the best way to play Satie seems to be to do so as artfully individualistically as one can...one way or another...a bit peppy OR a bit "slow." There is no, singular "correct" way to play Satie. But that generous open-endedness is half the fun. Vive Satie! And (additionally) vive de Leeuw!
My favorite Satie performer, by far. To me it's always been music of solitude; I can't imagine what it would be like to experience it like this, in a room with many people all tuned in and hanging on every note.
Reinbert is the premier interpreter of Satie. Whoever heard the Gymnopedie No. 1 played with such existential reverence? It’s like a lullaby from some future civilization in his hands.
I am very sad to discover Reinbert died last year. I listen to his recordings frequently-I wish I could have told him how much musical serenity he brought to me, especially on lonely or rainy days.
You are a poet.
This is better than the studio recording. De Leeuw is without a doubt the best performer of this deep music. He really gets the spirit of it. Also the acoustics are very good. I wonder where you found it. This is wonderful, I just keep listening.
live is always better, always more real!
@@ferrantepallas Yes and no. There should have been a sign: no smokers or lung sufferers, just silent farters are welcome
did you ear some French recordings ?
@@adrischolte These coughing people are unbearable.
@@ferrantepallas live music fucking sucks. Have to hear crowds, the mistakes in playing, and the south quality is inferior.
Oh wow, it's so beautiful, it fits perfectly now. Rest In Peace, mr. De Leeuw.
Why are people always dying of the flu during his performances - out of every pianist I have ever heard- Satie of all people they go to hear while they have swine flu fr- de Leeuw had bad luck for that
MERCI pour cette profonde humanité musicale ...et surtout d'une UNIVERSALITE dont on a tant besoin aujourd'hui
Thankyou for this marvellous delight. Reinbert's take on Satie is , for me, exactly right. And this performance is transcendent in its precision. I feel blessed.
may this bring you peace in even the most bare of times
So much coughing over the best gnossiennes
people really are just coughin' though the entire performance, eh?
The tempo is exactly right ... this is first recording I owned of the Satie's work and when I hear other faster tempos it just sounds totally wrong.
Rest in peace Reinbert de Leeuw.
The disrespect for tempo is actually extremely interesting . Makes the piece somewhat universal , this man interpretation suits me just fine for how I perceive Satie´s work : delicate , wild , melancholic and oniric that is .
thanks for this, and for removing the applause...plus, i have never hear or heard of the ogivies before. what a magical treat. wow, this is by the the best Satie interpretations i have heard. Satie is so easy to play, but so hard to interpret and play well....thank you....
I heard this 50 years ago. and a lot versions after. Someone pointed it out perfectly. It is the room for breathing, he produce. This is Satie
Some years ago bought a cd of Satie. Did not know who was R. De Leeuw. Did not know was the best interpretation of the 3 Gymnopedies and all Gnossiennes. De Leeuw used to play Satie slow, to give me time to feel and think, dont know what. Greetings from Rome Italy
Truly beautiful playing the space between the notes wow so melodic if thats the right term love his peaceful timing :)
"For John Cellini on his birthday -- you will hear this on loop through the ayahuascan galaxies." lmfao
As someone who has studied deep inside the Peruvian Amazon with a Mestizo curandero, this post is hilarious.
I wrote that for someone I closely know who deserves a horrific punishment, albeit perhaps in a slowed extrasensory form of tantalising and unreachable love as in an ayahuascan experience - a glacial regret he'll have to endure for choosing to hurt instead of love. That trip incidentally was one of the best experiences in my life. It's cool you had such deep studies in the Amazon.
Согласно заголовку релиза, акт исполнения совершается в 1982 году.
Интересно, осенью 1982 года?
I loooove how slow he does Gnossiennes. It does add an air of pretentiousness, and I feel like he gets a bit too playful with his difference, obviously there are a couple mistakes also-but it’s still absolutely lovely, I love it.. esp compared to idiots playing it with nun but grandiosity and unneeded speed.
Semplicemente magnifico!
Gentlemen, a moment of attention, gentlemen!
Look how touchingly the image on the preview echoes the image on the avatar, that adds additional harmony to the ambience of the present release.
Thank you
Amazing how such a static piece can be played with such emotion (ogives) being it is my favourite, deep inside i feel as if Satie would have played it SLOWER for that transcendental and spiritually uplifting feel that arises out of the isolation in between the chords.
I love the slow pace. It does not disturb the silence of the transcendent. Not sure I ever really heard Satie until this guy.
schon immer Satie Fan gewesen, auch die de Leeuw Platten gehabt, aber diese live Aufnahme atmet noch mal viel lebendiger Saties Geist.
Die Geräusche betonen den Live Charakter der Aufnahme, darin die unendliche Stille in Saties Raum, die Leeuw uns eröffnet, gerade in den Ogives... Danke!
Toute la magie de celui qui fonda la musique contemporaine (Phil Glass, John Cage,...) par le meilleur interprète !
Not enough coughing, folks.
Faced with such a coughing fit, I would withdraw from the room, trying not to disturb the rest of the audience.
Certainly not.
His performance‘s splendor of words can not arrive
These sound reached deep into my soul , shook me to my core, and gave me deep comfort and healing and emotion
From
A corner of Tokyo
That people coughing at the backsound fucked up the video
Call me crazy. I enjoy the coughing. Makes the music feel more human and adds despair in a way that i really enjoy reveling in.
Everything is perfect except for the one who coughs the whole concert :0
Never heard this particular Satie piece before, but how lovely its interpretation: such feeling, and caressing of both notes and pauses that leave one remembering moments of tender love and expectation for more.....
j aime le tempo très lent mais il manque de nuance dans le phrasé dommage un peu trop carré pas assez français
The best interpreter of Satie's work, if not one of the best...
One of the best interpreters of Satie, if not the best.
In my humble opinion, the very best interpreter of Satie's work
The one and only for Satie? To me he is 🙏
what a gem, thanks for uploading
En écoutant Ogives, tout à coup j’avais l’impression que Messaien n'aurait jamais pu exister si Satie n’avait pas vecu avant. Et pour ceux qui s’étonnent aux titres drôles liés à ces morceaux tellement célestes, il suffit de se souvenir que le vrai contemporain de Erik Satie, c’était Richard Wagner. Bien, on ne riait pas de tout aux héros ridicules de ses opéras gonflés. Mais on riait à Paris: on riait toujours chez Satie. Il zieutait à l’avenir, à l’époque qui finalement est devenue la nôtre.
Wonderful. It seems those people listening were especially quiet during the performance, almost holding their coughs for in between the pieces :)
36:14 Did someone cry?
IMO, the only pianist who should be allowed to play Satie. He slows the tempos perfectly to allow the pieces to breathe and develop. Every other pianist I have ever heard plays Satie too quickly.
Good point about de Leeuw's excellence. But you might like recordings by Ciccolini, as he "got" Satie very well too. That stated, although I would not condone such a creatively potentially cruel (and difficult to enforce!) restriction, it is true that many pianists who deign to interpret Satie sometimes do so in a way that tries to be too show-offy and, at times, pointlessly virtuosic...instead of simply allowing the music to be lyrical and enjoyable. To each his own, but (yes) some interpretations are not so pleasant to behold. There may be no single "correct" way to interpret (fast/slow) any one work by Satie, but his works ought to be (one might hope) lyrically and artistically engaging without any inartistic, stressed-out extremes. With Satie, generally subtlety and tastefulness are the answer - that is unless the piece requires some lighthearted and hilariously shocking POUNDING, as is sometimes the case. But the occasional sardonic pounding just adds to the overall entertaining contrast. Vive Satie!
Magic, stunning.
Thank you so very much!
It's fucking curious the imense contrast between the deep profoundity, seriousness, of almost all of his work, Satie's, and the deliciously dadaistic humour of his titles! Why, "The Dreamy Fish"... Really... Even in his personal life, you see, in most of his photos, he's a funny face... ("The Dreamy Fish" is one of the few of his with a humouristic atmosphere in the sound, too!)
the incessant coughing from the audience is really thrown into high relief here. Was everybody smoking?
Back then, yes.
It’s kind of cool though....sort of feels like the very first time machines-but when they were just transportation chambers with audio only.
Just want to go back in time, find that annoying person who keeps coughing and slap it in its face. Common.
What player does this need to stream video. I can get audio but really want to watch the performance as well
-- Toute la douceur & la poésie de Satie au piano. --
deeply magisterial and beautiful
Mij idol
Amo profondamente l'interpetrazione di Reinbert de Leeuw.
Is this available on vinyl or higher audio quality anywhere?
That's the one and the only one, keep that in mind!!!
It's beautiful. A pity there are always people who seem to be determined to mark their presence by coughing very annoyingly, at the cost of Music, and others. They should leave when they cannot help it or never attend concerts in the first place, when it's a matter of ego.
Bedankt hiervoor, meer dan mooi om de stukken zo gespeeld te horen.
Heel hartelijk dank, Meneer de Leeuw.
萨蒂作品最好的演绎者！
I want to see video footage of him playing.
Possible I show you where and how. Reinbert de Leeuw - Erik Satie Gnossiene 1-6 VPRO Geluiden
In his home country The Netherlands on You Tube
Beaucoup trop rapide ! Satie donnait comme instruction : " Jouez TRES lentement "" ...
Thank You For Removing the Applause
I did not care for one of the Gnosiennes (I think number 2) going SOOOO very fast, but otherwise it is very, very beautiful. Probably my favourite so far. Definitely among the top 5. Thank you for sharing!
Chuuut! Arrêtez de tousser au fond, s'il vous plait! Merci...
Whats up with all the coughin jhezz. Seriously unlistenable.
The audience needs to participate!
37:24 wtf
Why remove the applause?!!
Often the applause gets in the way of the music. That's why some of the best pianists behave in a way to eliminate applause between pieces.
His interpretations of the gymnopedies are an abomination. The beauty of the melodies is completely lost in the slowness.
The sound of coughing - cringe cringe!
Played, way too slowly. As if playing for the 'Hearing Impaired' and the tempo is slowed so that the Signer can Sign the Notes to the audience.....Geez....I've heard stronger beats in Cardiac Intensive Care Units....LoL
It's a shame, you missed the point so grandly
So Satie is not for you, Stan.