Erik Satie, Gymnopedie nr.3

[lavagemestomacal]

Just Beautiful!

[estufa88]

lovely. thanks 4 playing.

[maestrojimbo]

Nice performance!

[1920sailorfan]

can you please make a tutorial?

i've been looking for this song for a long time, so please? - -

[sorrystateout]

i thought it was my ear phones,,, id thrown the fucken chair out, it wrecked it for me.

[Khriztie87]

I Want to Cry.

[MadameDeces]

y0ur pian0 has a beautiful s0und! and y0u play beautifully! thank y0u!

[MKH1204]

Beautiful

[dblegende1]

c'est joliment joué. Quel drôle de personnage ce Satie, ces titres surréalistes, cette musique simple et pleine de charme. C'est un français assez typique, il faut le reconnaître.

[NVanWendy]

Can I send you an oil can for your piano stool?

(Nicely played, though!)

[Klangzauberer]

I think it's more this indefinable alien voice which was wasn't there when I uploaded this video, again. Please check that video out. The permanent click is the pedal which I have fixed in my newer recordings. Though in some recordings the piano stool makes some light voices which aren't really bothering but it would be worth to fix for my later recordings as well.

[TheSimbita]

@Klangzauberer XD

[DJAx3L2]

i`m obsesed with erik satie's music

[Marmalade000000]

Eric Satie composed very simple yet lovely music, that anyone could play.

[RobertoFasciano]

Good performance, compliment!!!

[gargamelov]

piano version is the original version

[overprotectivefool]

Great Job!!! I love the piano version of this song, and you play it very well. This composition is just so relaxing. Thanks!

[nazzie2]

i play this ( : thanks for the video. it will help me to play it better!

[rudgel]

Full feelings, very good (my version isn't so good)

[MusicBeautyLove]

Wonderful! I love Erik Satie's Gymnopedies!

[dagies3]

me encanta el minimalismo de Erik Satie

[jonamac]

beutiful, play more

[SvenTwelve]

beautiful rendition. nice to see your face in the reflection on the piano. nice touch.

[oboistCONDUCTOR]

I prefer orchestral version but is beautiful as well in piano.

[magenta667]

really? i prefer the piano version. but eh. i think it's because it's so much fun to play lol. though the orchestral version is quite pretty. i honestly don't think this song would be bad performed on any instrument.

[langying]

this song is just peace in sound. thanks for posting

[54spiritedwill54]

when i play this music it helps to imagine im moving in slow motion

[Klangzauberer]

Plese check out the version that I posted as a video response. It's without the bothering noise.

[Slopies]

There is a strange sound at the beginning. The effect is AWESOME.

of course

[Klangzauberer]

I know. In my later recordings it doesn't appear anymore. Some time, I will add a version without the noise.

[limestoneman]

I would certainly like to have an mp3 of it with and without the weird sounds, just so I can admire both, and possibly add my own...remix.

[celynadwell]

I am learning this on the piano, is it any hard?

[Klangzauberer]

Apparantly not. But playing Satie isn't done with learning the notes. After playing this for years I noticed for myself that I could still perfect expression and tone of the piece.

[Shankovich]

My camera does the same thing! LOL

Love the vid, you play awsome and you're piano is incredible!

[Klangzauberer]

Thank you :-)

[ashvij29]

loveeeee this song, especially the first 8 measures

[sanjja8]

muy bin, genial satie!!

[dbcestrian]

Played beautifully. Thank you

[carlotta8]

très bonneinterprétation, merci

[camicwanimelover]

it's realaxing to listen to gymnopedie, i feel all was so light, its like the music its taking me away...

hope one day i be able to play this song like u.

[svenskfiolspel]

Great job! I love Satie, and I love the way you play it. There's just one thing that bothers me, I hear a weird noise from time to time. Is it just my computer?

[Klangzauberer]

I know. I don't know what it is. It appears just in my Gymnopedie-videos. In these of all of my videos! Anytime, when I feel like recording the Gymnopedie's again, I will record a proper recording and add this new version in additon to my old one. But I don't feel like removing these ones because they have got so many views and good comments. And théy call the attention for my channel. But, indeed, this noise bothers me as well.

[kaerftra]

is there something on top of the piano or something? 'cause that kind of thing happens to me sometimes when i have random stuff on top...

[Klangzauberer]

No. I still don't know it. It doesn't appear in other recordings that are recorded on the same day. Anyway, it isn't there anymore...

[kaerftra]

well, that's good!

[STILLAVRIL1]

Sounds suspiciously like a metronome to me.

Well played.

[daugherity]

sehr gut! ein bravourstueck! danke!

[Klangzauberer]

dankeschön :-)

[nelsonsimonelli]

******

[Cabnfever]

lovely, thank you.

[dmyrkur]

nice :D this is my favorite gymnopédie...and it sounds wonderful. i like your reflect haha it's a nice effect

[aoisatan]

ive seen all your versions of gymnopedie and let me tell u .. BRILLIANT! sounds great

[Klangzauberer]

Thank you. Much appreciated :-)

[enhenyeroger]

soothing to my sleepless mind in my heart!!!hehehe

[psyentist420]

when i play this music it helps to imagine im moving in slow motion

[2zwaantjes]

Nicely played. I love Satie and you do a great job. Even tho it's considered 'easy' music, it's hard to catch the mood. You do a very nice job at it.

More! More!

[Klangzauberer]

Thank you :-)

[colossus999]

Oh, for some reason I thought this was the second one. I've played all three (orchestrally and on handbells), so I guess I get them mixed up a bit.

[nekolux]

I like satie he was able to bring out good pieces without the use of incredible dynamics or speed. The end. =) oh and very nice dude i watched all 3 of your playing the 3Gymnopedie =D

[GrandPatzer]

The Gymnopedies are fun pieces to play. Good for beginners too, because they're at a slow pace.  Very relaxing.

[martialdrake]

Gymnopedie is Beautiful.

[avanty123piw]

Hey I can play most of this.. what grade roughly is it? i dont know what grade im on, but i can play this with ease.. so that puts me at a grade what??? msg back me roughly what grade this is plz??

[Arina]

lol.. i think anyone can play this.. so lvl 1?

[moonroach6207]

its not the draw on dexterity and sheer technique that makes this piece high end, its capturing the currect mood and sorrow that the composer asks for you to paint a picture of.

[misspinkjoy]

HAHAHAHAHA

you think that?

You should try it,

the octafe you have to skip with the left hand and playing the song with feelings and ofcourse the right hand --> melody,

enjoy trying :D

x x

[bluedemon43]

love love love love love love love satie

[kashmic]

Very good! I love #3, but #4 is my favorite. l

[GrandPatzer]

I don't think there is a Gymnopedie No. 4. I think there are only three Gymnopedies.

[grumio101]

A gymnopedie only has three movements, it is based on the sonata form, but instead of having a fast-slow-fast movement it contains one theme slightly varied through all three parts. This was all part of the 20th century ideal of experimentation! (I'm not a music genius, my piano teacher told me this today!)

[Klangzauberer]

I don't think that you can speak from "Movemnets" here and it is not based on a Sonata form. There are only 3 motives stringed together. Although they sound quite similar, you can not say Satie "works" with them. Satie's intention was to quit with common forms, so really did not thought about something like a Sonata when he composed it.

[Klangzauberer]

A Sonata has got also a development, Satie's music is more static. Furthermore it is well known that he studied more Gregorian music than music from classical composers.

[grumio101]

He thought about how to change the sonata 'common forms', how to make it different to the 'common forms' that has been produced so far. You need an original base to make show a difference. I'm not trying to outsmart you, because I probably won't succeed, but I think you contradict yourself in your comment.

[Klangzauberer]

He probably did know what a Sonata is, but he did not "experiment" with it. He created something totally new, and this is his way to quit with old forms of composing.

[grumio101]

How can it be totally new if someone has already done something with three parts before? Why did it not have five or seven?

[Klangzauberer]

I mean he created something quite different than lots of other composers before. Of course he did not conjure the whole piece from nothing. Every composer has his influences. Nevertheless you can not say that he refers to the form of a Sonata.

[grumio101]

I think he does, whether intentionally or not, the fact that there is a similar theme running through three pieces in both of the forms shows that. I know you disagree, I just think that he does refer to it.

[weestro7]

Beautiful. You have great control. Your rubato and dynamics sound fitting, natural, yet they often surprise me. It's fun to listen to you.

[GrandPatzer]

Do you play the same half-note right-hand chord on the 11th and 13th measures? It would be F and A. My score only has the chord on the 13th measure for some reason. I want to play as close to Satie as I can. Nice playing!!!

[Klangzauberer]

you're right. this chord occurs in both sections.

[rascalrascal]

good playing

[locadelbosque]

Dios mío! Qué recuerdos! Muchas gracias!

[Klangzauberer]

Gracias! :)

[mendeljg]

i love this gymnopedie, but when performed by an orchestra, it's infinitely better. Debussy conducts a version where the violin will bring you to tears.

[dominz1088]

Yo amo la sensualidad de los pies desnudos

[Klangzauberer]

In the description given by Satie are mentioned ambre atoms which are dancing over a very neat stoned, ground. Gold is also mentioned. So it seems to be a mystical setting, maybe in the antique Greece. Maybe you can find more information on Wikipedia searching for Gymnopedie.

[dominz1088]

Thanks

[dominz1088]

En realidad creo ke lo bonito de las 3 gymnopedies es su sencillez, mis favoritas son la 1ra y la 3ra, no comparto la opinion de ke suenen mejor en orquesta

I really think that the beauty of Gymnopedies is on their simplicity, i don't think they sound better in orchestra.

[Klangzauberer]

you're right.

[dominz1088]

what's the meaning of Gymnopedie? is it nude feet?naked feet? In spanish is "Pies desnudos" but i don't know the right translation in english

[existozip]

pt.1 It's greek: Gymnopaideia is working out naked, but it was not as narrowly defined as it is today. It was what all men did, in preparation for the years of peace that were brought on by the Olympics. It was philosophically considered vital for a healthy mind to have a healthy host-body and it was a kind of rite-of-passage into adulthood in Ancient Olympia.

[existozip]

pt2. If you take an artistic perspective on the matter, you can interpret it differently. A rite of passage into adulhood implies the end of childhood and the end of innocence, by extension. The slow melancholy of the piece is FOR ME the end of innocence. There are a million ways you can impose personal meaning on it though and find what it is for you.

[butifarra61]

thanks.

[tommyk77]

yay! someone actually plays something other than the first one. this is by far my favourite. the version for orchestra is even better

[hazynut88]

bravo bravo!

[rude94ralph]

Well done!

[jbwooten89]

wow.. gymnopedie's are like.. almost the same.. my favorite is the first.

[tommyk77]

that's because gymnodedie is the name for that style. like a nocturne, gavotte, symphony...etc. check out caresse by satie if u like the gymnopedies

[mriverat]

Thank you.