Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.2

[adelitaq]

Simplemente Hermosa

[sophie7715]

Magnifique toutes ses oeuvres à erik satie quel grand mr la musique nous donne tellement de choses pour vivre ds nos émotions !! merci

[JonnyCashmore]

4 people are bereft of a soul.

[sophie7715]

MAGNIFIQUE TOUT SIMPLEMENT

WONDERFULL.......

[051163able]

HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL! I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THIS COMPOSER!

[zecalm22]

I love Erik Satie´s music!!

[wigwams69]

his best songs: gymnomédie no 1, gnossienne no 5 and gnossienne no 1

[BeveragesAfterNine]

@wigwams69 We all know though, that it's a matter of opinion. But I agree with you.

[alternatehistories]

@DistantMirrors Can you tell me about the painting shown in this video? Who painted it and what it is about? Thanks for posting the best Satie videos and also for having top quality audio!!

[briefboyz]

@alternatehistories - It is by the Spanish painter Remedios Varo and is entitled 'Celestial Pabulum'. It was painted in 1958, five years before her death in 1963. Her painting Useless Science or The Alchemist is my particular favourite.

[BHoz77]

I love this song. I put in on when I have trouble sleeping. It relaxes me and calms me.

[awsomesause333]

So did the lady in the picture catch the moon and is feeding it?

[coskbeatz]

@andywhorehall haha me too

[SOLONOSTICO1]

Best verssion of gnos.2 of satie...

¡ Congratulations !

[honybadger]

@andywhorehall thank you :)

[honybadger]

@andywhorehall heey ,would you mind giving me some of those twisted music u got, Becouse i love this kind of music. It.. peaces me somehow. I would appreciate it.

[jippytheclown]

No-one expresses the fullness, the emptiness, the joy and the sorrow of the human condition through music as Satie does. There is none.

[Blackmarketmusic13]

@jippytheclown. I almost want to quote that, :)

[jippytheclown]

@Blackmarketmusic13

Thanks, I appreciate your appreciation of my expression of appreciation.

[jippytheclown]

@jippytheclown In Pop culture, for me the only artist that comes close in any way is Roger Waters.

[daveytjuuh]

@jippytheclown

I appreciate that.

[theworldGodonlyknows]

i feel like mint tea

[threelegduck]

@theworldGodonlyknows i feel like lemongrass tea

[Akaru123]

Einfach traumhaft <3

[OceanLunar]

The music is otherworldly - as are the paintings in these series of postings. Who is the artist? Thanks.

[labaguettehollywood]

@OceanLunar Remedios Varo

[petez0mbie]

I'm trying to play this piece and my copy of the sheet music uses a (1/2 Ped.) symbol under the second and third chords of the bass part in the opening phrase. Does that symbol indicate that I'm only suppose to partially release the sustain pedal?

Your performances of these pieces are wonderful! They may seem relatively strait forward to play at first glance but getting the right sense of touch and dynamic control is quite challenging!

[TheWanderingNight]

@petez0mbie

Half pedal, presumably - it's not releasing partially, but depressing partially. In effect, (proper) half-pedalling means that the deeper notes will be sustained but not the higher notes. This is pretty much redundant for grand pianos though, unless they don't have a middle sostenuto pedal, but some pieces do call specifically for the 'awkward' half-pedal effect (such as 'Free Variations' from Bartok's Mikrokosmos).

[aeki1987]

@petez0mbie

lol i have the same problem. My piano teacher said that your pedal has a "sweet point" the point where the pedal is just barely touching the strings. Its very hard to find that sweet point and get the right amount of pedal. But practice makes perfect (i hope). xD

[Glammmbition]

I just started playing this piece, and I love how it has no bar lines. Like floating on air.

I also like the little notes from Satie, like "don't leave" and "with great kindness". It makes it so personal.

[one1way1street]

@Glammmbition and the note; use your head, that one is so great

[ColtonBrook]

@Glammmbition you should read a bit more about him. he's played a joke on you :D

[NoorseTrol]

j'adore gnossienne 2 :) c'est magnifique

[WeirdRandomStranger]

Beautiful.

[crepinchristine]

Magic! Romantic! A little sadness... Nostalgie du temps qui passe!

[shmips]

what makes these works so "strange and different is do to the "cadenza" or absolute time, meaning that this piece has no time signature or any bar lines.

but all in all an awesome piece.

[whendirtgetsinmyeye]

ex-qui-site

[MsOndine]

Satie's Gnossiennes played by Pascal Rogé are always a feast to the ear. And Remedios Varo's mysterious paintings do more than justice to these masterpieces.

[godsarmy105]

I love Satie

[13thladydoll]

Satie had that "something" strange and mysterious in all his works that I love.

[Utubesuxmycock]

for meditation..no?

[LexImperatoris]

Or at any rate something beautifully horrific...

[ShoShanaWrites]

I think it's impossible to listen to any of Satie's work and not imagine something beautiful.

[kaioxygen]

@ ShoshanaWrites But at the same time something menacing

[stellersjay08]

Takes me back to being 11, running through the house on my way somewhere, and passing through the living room where my father was listening to CBCs FM servce, right while Gymnopédie was playing. It stopped me in my tracks and held me hypnotized for the rest of the piece. Ive been a fool for Satie ever since. The tempo on this is perfect.

[Screwbiedooo]

@stellersjay08 I agree. I think the tempo is just about spot on here. Not too fast not too slow as many are.

[Screwbiedooo]

And the rubato is about perfect too.

[Physdelicdreaming]

This tempo is fine by me. I've heard some horribly fast tempos that have killed songs before - take for instance Satie's 'Le Fils des Etoiles', one of my favorite works by him. If you play that song too fast, it songs absolutely terrible - but nice and slow gives it an air of mystery. And Debussy's 'Padoges' is fine example of fast-tempos-sometimes-kill.

[Physdelicdreaming]

Oops, I meant 'sounds absolutely terrible'. Ha, typos. :D

[gabydragona]

Agarraste mi alma y la estrujaste en pedacitos

[ashleylynnjoan]

This tempo certainly takes some getting used to... but it lets you really appreciate the music itself.

[irishjanet]

this tempo is just right (for me) i want to learn to play it!! :)

[lauramcmillanpiano]

So beautiful, I love Satie! Thank you.

[moonlightnoir]

"Supe entonces que estaba hablando de mí y de mi cocina, y de mis hijos lunares y de las estrellas que yo trituro" R. Varo

[evertchris]

My first exposure to Satie was After the rain by Roge, and so now everything I hear from that CD by other pianists seems way too fast!

[omidahomi712]

how do u say the name gnossienne

[spartan9185]

no-c-n

[divinedgar]

i like it slow, too.

there is only one thing i love more than music and that is silence.

play this right, and you get both.

i want to absorb it, not have it over before it sinks in.

just my preference.

[ohsleeper]

it is not too slow!

[TitanYa315]

Pascal Rogé is playing a French piece by a French Artist, which sets the French distinciton and makes it uniqely French piano-style!!

[thereisnogodnorallah]

Too slow

[autr727]

I agree

[Jonnern]

I agree too.

[agvap]

why? if satie wanted it to be played like that

[Jonnern]

How could you know? The score is not marked with witch tempo its supposed to played in.

[ldnkid]

I've never heard it this slow before!

[kinansham]

very beautifull  :)

[HCbodom]

thaks you!

[ezraipg]

I have to thank you for getting us to the wonderful world of art. It was excellent to combine the paintings of Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. Two of the best surrialist painters who florished here, in my country, Mexico.

Thank you again!

Simplement unique et marveillieux!

[laitae]

beautiful!

[76JensStaschel]

5 stars again for you.

=)