Erik Satie - "Caresse"

[peteklat]

What I love about Satie is that he reminded us what music COULD be, while Wagner was shouting at us what music SHOULD be.

[SaveASoulWithABeat]

If You Love The Way Erik Satie's Music Speaks Try Out One Of My Songs And See What More Can Be Accomplished Even With Words ;)

[88herzogc]

Could you tell me what the opening painting is titled or who it is by? thanks!

[tomanic]

Mon grandpere etait un homme faible.

[smithfield06]

listened to a scratched lp my brother owned years ago, that was my first taste of eric saties music its sad,unconventional and melodic at various points an underrated genius

[Dunderhead36]

@smithfield06 the thing I like about Satie is that no two songs of his match emotionally. Everything is different, and he beautifully portrays feelings of sadness, anger, love, and devotion, and can be extremely playful in his works.

[lostsoleful]

I listen to Satie when I am depressed and my depression turns into a kind of sadness I can enjoy. It's like the sadness is an art form. Does that make sense? (I am trying to express what Satie's music does for me without sounding like a pretentious idiot.)

[TatianaBazan]

@lostsoleful Yeaaah I feel the same :)

[TomVable]

@lostsoleful I understand you perfectly!

[autobot69000]

i wish i could play the piano. sigh, 19 is way too old to learn :(

[theeighthsea]

@autobot69000 You're never too old to learn. :)

[MaffeiOne]

@autobot69000 I started at 18, after a mere year of practise I can now play most of Satie's music :)

[autobot69000]

@MaffeiOne nice! did you get a private tutor or self taught?

[MaffeiOne]

@autobot69000 I have one lesson ( 60 minutes) a week :)

My teacher mainly helps me with the theory and some simple practise excersises, I taught the songs I know myself (though he does offer criticism when I ask him to)

[Snackay]

@autobot69000 completely false. too bad so many people have this wrong view. your loss.

[the81stviewer]

It is very lovely to hear a piece of Satie; but it is VERY hard to listen to Satie for long periods of time without feeling drained.

[troikagirl]

@jacobjacob87.."Clever" works great for me, but sarcasm doesn't work for you.

Insecure people build themselves up by putting others down...now that's clever!.

[g00hz]

@troikagirl Stupid internets.. :)

[18dryad]

Hello, Thank you for this lovely fragment by Satie. Would you also mind telling me who the painting is by at the opening of this piece? Thank you.

[iwishihadseenthatlol]

just as good as mozart ;)

[TheWanderingNight]

Wonderfully timeless.

[Gallagher101162]

ah you rascal satie

[jonpguitar]

Does anyone know what set of pieces this is from, i have a huge book of his works but I can't find it.

[TheKrista56]

chopin wrote a very short preludium too,and slow also, it is only 16 music measurements long but one of the most beautyfuul ones and also particular as construction...I think all composers have little iluminations they dont want to work out as big or long compostions! its loving the beauty simply...

[dewarfinch1]

I do like such minimalism. Ideal Minimalism is to be JUST enough to provoke the imagination so that even when the music stops you can hear it continue inside your head.

[missionrd100]

I am a rock'n'roll fan and don't know much about Satie but it seems like he was going against the current style of music in his day. Erik Satie, the first punk composer?

[troikagirl]

moonymoon27, You mention about Sartie's short music. All the good things come in little packages. A small piece of cake is nice, and it's leaves you wanting more...a whole cake makes you feel sick.

[dmcII]

@troikagirl Lol...Thats a very good analogy !

[jacobjacob87]

@troikagirl youre clever doll....How does it works for you,being clever?

[barcalonga]

There is a lot of breathing noise in it that I find distracting in a performance. I don't believe that I know what those notations look like in the music?

[Dave2bu]

Does anyone know where I can get (free) sheet music for this? I've looked around a lot but can't find it anywhere... Thanks.

[Dave2bu]

@462samba hey!

[Dave2bu]

@462samba 

[462samba]

@Dave2bu 

[MrChopin333]

He was cuckoo, satie was; a real cuckoo head. 

[flagey12]

Where did you get this from? I haven't seen it in the French and Dutch catalogues.

[Composerland]

thanks.

[moonymoon27]

Did Erik Satie really compose such short "songs"? or are these fragments? because it is a bit strange that a brilliant composer like him occasionally stopped after less than 2 minutes :) Or is it like writing a two-lines poem just to free your mind of a restless creative idea..

[jaymusic143]

Many of Satie's works for piano are relatively short. The amazing composer FREDERIC MOMPOU (who I highly recommend if you like Satie --there are lots of YouTube vids here) ) wrote even shorter pieces, as did even Chopin at times, and Ravel among others.

[moonymoon27]

Thank you for the recommendation :) Indeed, I love Mompou..just like Satie, he paints wonderful nuances of nostalgia and sadness in musical notes..

[flagey12]

@jaymusic143 That's it about Satie, and Mompou for that matter: many of his pieces seem lifted from thin air. There is a beguiling modular quality through much of his music. That has timeless appeal.

[JessAtlas]

@moonymoon27 Better to have a tiny, flawless sparkling diamond than a large hunk of silver.

[moonymoon27]

@JessAtlas Yes, I agree..and Satie's diamonds are quite precious. :)

[AndreidaGiant]

@moonymoon27 they are short because it is only one part of a series of pieces ment to be played together...

[KallistiMusic]

Have a listen to my Satie's Gnossiennes if you get the chance, thanks.

[Dave2bu]

I'm looking for sheet music for this. Does anyone know where I can find it? Is this piece part of a set of pieces or an individual piece? :)

[aesthetic1950]

Who is playing? I went to Amazon to download this piece. However, neither interpretation was as mesmerizing as this one.

[jaymusic143]

I don't recall. It was a long time ago when I downloaded it. It MIGHT be Aldo Ciccolini. He is considered the best interpreter of Satie.

[aesthetic1950]

Mahalo, I'll look through his discography.

[mahler151]

i thought it was kifali? (i'm actualy not sure as to the spelling of it.)

[magenta667]

thank you for posting this lovely piece :D

[Mazurka1001]

Satie is so intense, sometimes almost unbearably so. so. so. so.

[droi74]

Yes many sweet music from Satie. Not some said sad and depressed. Thanks for sharing.

[COCOONFABULA]

Why "gay" ?

[jaymusic143]

Eric! Thank you! Yes, I'm a huge Satie fan since high school in the early 1970s. As you know, Evans picked up a lot from Satie, and the others, of course. Wish I could make it to,Paris someday! And Arcuiel! It's long been a dream of mine!

[GozTheGreat]

Hello Jan (I'm Eric, from France). I didn't know you are a Satie's fan. Me too.. It's perhaps "normal" for an Evans fan ("modal approach", "mix of humour and sadness",...). For the little story, Satie was born at Honfleur (Normandie) just few kilometers from were I live. At Honfleur, there's a funny and interesting museum dedicate to Satie and his music (another one - smaller - exists in Paris)

I would be a good thing if, for exemple the city of plainfield, create "Bill Evans museum".