Here it is again on harp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZkXnyXBAE2g#!
Posted by snopercod at May 25, 2013 11:30 AMThank you. Satie was ahead of his time by about a hundred years.
Posted by StephenB at May 25, 2013 12:56 PMTurns out everybody loved Suzanne. Satie? Perhaps too much.
Posted by Casey Klahn at May 25, 2013 9:44 PMHere's a magnificent performance of Gnossienne No. 1 on what looks like a Brahms guitar:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=Lcjs-isbizA
Listening to the slow, plodding, discordant jumble that Satie himself called sound measurement one is reminded how unoriginal the drunkard was. The emotional content reflects a mind rejecting emotion. As if to say nothing matters, it is all so useless he doesn't bother with the old fashioned rules of counterpoint, no, he uses the diminished 5th repeatedly. It's the main theme of the piece, over and over again. The Devil's interval. Reason and beauty be damned. If art reflects culture, was he setting the mood for what was to follow in the 20th Century?
Posted by Frank (aka Dagny) at May 26, 2013 9:35 PMSatie's Gymnopedie and variations have been a part of my personal soundtrack for years. I'll have to explore his life more after my curiosity was piqued by your article. Merci.