This is one of the rare cases where the repeat is absolutely essential part of the music. In the first round our mind is taken on a mysterious journey without a clear harmonic direction. In the second round the mind has accepted the absence of a harmonic center as the new normality and it really starts to feel at home. Listening to a 'conventional' piece of music right after this one feels uncomfortably in your face. At least this is how I feel about this piece and that is one reason why I really love the music of Satie.

This was written in a time when music was becoming more about the performer than the music itself. Satie was a true artist

I LOVE how his music is never not relevant, every few months/weeks I found people talking about Erik's music on the internet and it warms my heart, he's a legend and should always be remembered as one

I am drawn back to Satie again and again. You are spot on. This piece is unusual. It seems simplistic and it is not. It has depth, it’s hauntingly beautiful in its slowness, in it’s melody and in it’s movement. Thanks for playing it and discussing it and illuminating why this piece is a gem and why Satie is brilliant.

So happy to find a pianist who appreciates quiet beauty as well as virtuosity. Thank you.

I'm a piano beginner and literally just made a recording of this a few days ago. Learning the notes is easy enough, but making it sound good is a lot harder. It's definitely a piece that makes you appreciate dynamics and perfect the synchronization of your key presses.

Thank you for give someone like me with no background in music an insight on why I may love this piece so much, without knowing why.

I just love the utter peacefulness of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie.❤

Love your version. Been a Satie nut my whole life, got countless versions of all his music, and I swear his music is the one that I find people most often get wrong; there's a tenderness to it that needs to be coupled with madness, where madness is allowing the notes to breathe and sing, madness for the player in particular. Thanks! Loved it, including your own piece that has that Satie spirit.

Satie is by far my favorite. He has so much to offer, his nocturnes are something out of this world.

It strikes me that your goal is to write background music for your dogs... Wonderful! Three years ago I used the first minute of this gentle melody as a background to a short video I had recorded of my old Spanish greyhound who meanwhile had died. To me it was the only music I could have used because of her tender and poised nature. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

Satie is an underrated genius. Personally, I think he belongs with names like Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky because his music revolutionized western music.

Satie's music has to be the deepest of all the great classical composers. his music takes me somewhere else whenever i listen. makes you feel sad in a good way...haunting, i love music like that. Satie is the King of Melancholy.

Dear Nahre, You have such a great gift of explaining hidden functionalities of music in such an understandable way. The elegance by which you propagate the secrets of music always touches me. Thank you so much. A.

Your inspired addition at the end is extremely beautiful I wish you would expand where you were going. I'm sure that Satie would have loved your development because it makes so much sense and isn't over done, you've respectfully kept the true flavor of the original music. You play with such grace.

Satie may have claimed that he was trying to create "background music," but this particular piece is something that pulls me in, and has me listening more intently, and focused, than anything else I can think of. It produces a feeling of wonderment: just what is it that I am hearing? Especially those dotted half notes from the left hand, sometimes just speaking "all by themselves," that draw me into listening to the timbre of the piano strings that have been struck to produce them, all the harmonics produced by those 2 or 3 unison-tuned strings producing the "note." I can't explain exactly what it is that I am trying to communicate, but those single tones function for my "inner ear" the way that chords usually do, and awaken my "internal sound;" my "internal sound" resonates with the tone produced by the piano strings. It is kind of as if, by listening to this "background music" one is directed to listen to one's self (notice I did not write _oneself)_ and not so much to the music. So yes, "meditative." Part of the enjoyment of listening to this pieces is this particular piano, the timbre of this piano that Nahre Sol is using. The lower register seems very nice, even on my inexpensive little speakers.

Back then when I was still teenager, this is the only classical music that I really enjoyed listen to, as it could take my mind wondering. It evokes a peculiar feeling like missing someone/something that I never met - in a loving kinda way. It's right in the feels. Isn't that the true magic of music? Underrated, indeed. Thank you for this video!

To my ear, Satie sounds like a hint of Jazz and Ragtime that would follow. I love this piece, and everything Satie I've ever heard. My favorite pianist to play Satie is Klara Kormendi (she plays on many of Naxos' Satie recordings). I think your version captures the pathos and wistfulness the way hers does, and is equally good. Thanks for adding to my love for Satie.

I absolutely adore your postlude! It truly fits the mood and tone of Satie’s piece while also being original and different.

I'm not a musician and can't play anything, but I really love this piece. I've got a number of recordings of it. One thing I notice that pianists seem to have trouble with is varying the tempo of the piece. I think the tempo is really hard to get right. It's "simplicity" sets it apart from much of classical music, as you pointed out. It's just so relaxing and contemplative.... Lovely homage.

Still easily in my top three music KZfaqrs ever. Love this piece, loving the analysis.

Your channel has pulled me back into the classical piano days of my youth. I really enjoy your thoughtful theory analysis and your playing is quite beautiful.

Wonderful. just wonderful Ms Sol - i thoroughly enjoyed your exposition and then the performance of Satie's piece itself. Your added hommage à Satie was a joyous and unexpected addition - a pure delight. So elegant, calming - I closed my eyes and felt I was floating... Thanks a gazillion! 💖👏🏻

If you have little interest in playing or listening to piano, this video offers a full glass of appreciation. Her voice style and delivery, the grace of her finger movements and the quality of the tone being presented by her mind and hands offers a level of peace that is a gift from God!!!

I've heard this piece performed maybe hundreds of times by now, but never more beautifully than this - possibly never as beautifully AS this. Just when I thought this overworked warhorse of the piano literature had no more to offer me, here comes Nahre to demonstrate quite otherwise. Just leaned back in my chair and sighed gently with pleasure through the whole piece. And, it added so much value for me to see your hands on the keys and to follow along on the score. If there are better examples of successfully combining education and aesthetic beauty, I don't know about them. Thanks so much, Nahre.

Whenever I hear this, my mind sees jellyfish swimming. No idea why. A fantastic piece of music. Pared down to the extreme, yet full of emotion. Masterful.

Nahre you have such an amazing gift in sharing your musical insights with the world, I am mesmerised by your feather like hand movements over the keyboards. I loved your compositions on definite genres/ composers, and thank you for your innovative, gentle & constructive approach in making classical music relevant. At the age 50 I’ve started learning piano again, you are truly an artistic motivation to many others….. bravo😊

Satie is like Ringo from the Beatles. He’s not interested in displaying his instrumental athleticism. But what he composes as a piece of music is perfection. And holy smokes… that was one of the most moving renditions of Gymnopedie I’ve ever heard!!

Wonderful video! I appreciated your performance of his music and so much of your version! Brilliance!

Extraordinary ! Thank you ! What a beautiful trait d'union between classical and jazz music. Soooo nicely played and brilliant comments !

He’s definitely a genius. One of my favorite French composers from the impressionist period

Always a pleasure. He was certainly ahead of his time and wonderfully eccentric. Next came Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.

Simple art is rarely simple… ❤ One of my favourite versions of this is on Alice Sarah Ott’s “Nightfall” 👌🏻

I loved listening to your insights and your beautiful playing. Magical. I also love your wonderful Postlude! 🎶♥️

“Elegantly weird” is such a great summation of Satie! I enjoyed your slightly jazzy extrapolations, and it reminds me of how well Satie’s work lends itself to jazz interpretations. In particular, the Jacques Loussier Trio recorded some excellent renditions of the Gymnopedies and Gnossienes, and though they take the music away from the concept of furniture music, they’re beautiful in their own way.

Feels like one day, I will see "Sol" in big text on the front of a programme, and read about this youtube channel inside it. Phenomenal postlude, I would definitely purchase an album of you performing the Gymnopedies with your additions.

While I think your postlude goes against the spirit of Gymnopedie, it’s one of the most beautiful things I think you’ve written.

This has been my favorite piece of music since I first heard it over 50 years ago. It's become a dear old friend. Thank you for this delightful exploration and explanation and your homage too.

So glad you picked this piece for analysis…it is one of my all-time favorites. Your variation at the end was amazing and gorgeous to listen to.

Thank you for bringing us another fantastic video, Nahre! Beautiful performances, and your Hommage a Satie is just gorgeous!

I feel like Studio Ghibli owes M. Satie a lot - this has that same dreamy blissful or sad feel that their sound tracks (plus images) generate. I really liked your defence of Sadie’s music and although I have no background or training, the clips of much more famous pieces of the same time period really made your point. Your improv was lovely and I loved seeing the dog featured here as in the short. I actually think music that dogs love is a very worthy goal, because they deserve it and if you could do it you’d feel fantastic. Thanks for this whole thing, I really appreciate.

Absolutely loved the postlude you created! So beautiful, expressive, and Satie-esque. I also really like the format you've been making your videos recently, even more fluid and organized!

I only play piano as a hobby and have zero idea about notes & co., but taught myself to play by "listening" (no idea how else to describe it). What I want to say is: When I played Satie for the first time, even I as a layman thought "something is different here. something is so mysterious here that I can't describe it". The melodies just somehow go into the subconscious and nudge something there. It's just indescribable.

It's fascinating to hear someone not only perform music with such nuance but explain how the original composer straddled the point between conventions of their time and places counter to those conventions to create something of lasting value.

Nahre, I have listened to hundreds of your videos.I’m hardly alone. You have many many gifts, but there is a single overarching one. A unique and rare one. You lift us up.Thank you.😊

I have loved Gymnopedie since i was a kid. Took me years before i found out what that wonderful quirky thing was. And of course after i found who wrote it i found all his other amazing works as well, like Gnossienne. Both pieces are so simple and complex all at once. Even more so when you listen to all of them. Not sure how many of Gymnopedie , but Gnossienne is at least 1 - 5: For some lovely Versions: John & Steve Hackett - Shades of Satie. (Guitar & Flute).

I such a fan of these videos. She’s a great narrator, insider, teacher, interpreter to the world of piano. Glad to have subscribed.

So instructive, clear and soothi ng. You're a great teacher Nahre.

That was beautiful! You played the piece wonderfully and what you added to the piece at the end there brough tears to my eyes. How lovely!

I loved this explanation, your performance of this unique beautiful piece, and your post-lude at the end. Masterfully done!

Great tutorial Nahre!!! Thanks 🙏

Wonderful as always, Nahre. I particularly enjoyed the mention of the modal ambiguity and analysis mapping.

Great gratitude for the serendipity of stumbling upon your beautiful discussion/performance/interpretation. Your presentation made me glad to be alive this afternoon. Thank you.

Love this melancholic peace. Also a fantastic hommage at the end.

this was actually the first piece i ever learned to play on the piano.. learned it from a youtube video.. shortly after i started to get classical piano lessons and got to learn sight reading, technique and much more.. you could say this piece brought me to playing the piano, so it always has a very special place in my heart.. great video!

Beautiful video, from the breakdown to your homage. Well done

I’ve always loved this piece, thanks for breaking it down Nahre 🙌🏻

I always find Nahre's analyses fascinating, and I love hearing her creative postludes, based on her amazing understanding of the composers' style and harmony. Thanks, Nahre!

Really enjoyed your postlude. Very measured and controlled while expressing freedom and lightness. Bravo!

Your original composition at the end- the hommage - is beautiful

Very beautifully done and best detailing the piece. Great performance. Thank you.

One of the most profound experiences of my life that took place at a decisive, course-altering moment in my mid-20s involves this piece, which became for me emblematic of a new settling and integration after a period of deep inner turmoil. So I greatly appreciate your sensitive, respectful, illuminating treatment of the piece -- and I celebrate what you achieve in your hommage. Thank you, Nahre!

"Not ambitious"... great way to put it and why I kinda slept on this one in my younger years. You only really learn that "life is about just being, not trying to be anything" stuff until later. Incidently, that's when this song starts to have appeal.

Lovely to hear. Your rendition at the end was great.

One of mt favorite performances of my favorite classical piece. And a wonderful demonstration. Thank you!

i was mesmerized by this and its good to see you doing well. satie was my kind of composer because, at least in this piece, he made music from himself and not from structure. coming from that more natural place provides music that can be more felt than structured music.

your enthralling beauty, your artistry, sensitivity, gentleness is so wonderfully unforgivable.

Absolutely beautiful video, thank you so much for putting all of that work into your content, I truly enjoy it

You are absolutely fantastic!! You can’t fathom how much I enjoyed your presentation, especially the homage to Satie that you composed- Keep it up please!!

Thank you, this was wonderful and educational. Your postlude is gorgeous, dreamy... Loved it ❤

It has no Development: a reaction to centuries of German Baroque and Classical Music. It was truly Revolutionary.

Amazing, beautiful. One of my favourites. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working :)

Oh yeah, classic Nahre greatness: insightful explanation of the theory, beautiful performance and an amazing own composition at the end. Love it!

Nahre, I like how your remarks cover such a wide range of appreciate topics on music, from history, harmonic analysis, performance tips, composer intensions and so much more. I love your narrative because you also extend your comments with such clear examples on the piano. I think musicians and music lovers alike can benefit from your channel. This should include pianists and non-pianists as well. Many viewers are looking for inspiration and education. You clearly offer both in such a clear, concise, pleasing delivery. Bottom line. You are very talented and the world is much better because you had the courage to share your gifts in this electronic medium. Bless you❤

Thank you for this analysis and the beautiful homage at the end

A really beautiful episode on a really beautiful channel. Made me cry a little. Thank you !

Great video analysis and playing, as always, thank you so much! That superb composition of yours Hommage a Satie very well could be hommage to Bill Evans and Lyle Mays too! 🙂

Fantastic thoughts on this wonderful piece of art. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for this great video and your passion for music!

Amazing! Thank you! 🎉 Just when I needed this. ❤

I love your videos and I thank you for the dedication and effort to maintain the high standard of quality that you have in choosing content, recording, editing and explaining things with such tranquility and efficiency.

Lovely. I love seeing and hearing you perform. Thanks...

2 geniuses in one incredibly beautiful rendering. Just beautiful.

Bill Evan's Peace Piece was clearly inspired by Satie and has all the jazz elements that you talked about

Had heard Gymnopedie 1 here and there for years, but never knew who the composer was until fairly recently. Once I found out it was Mr. Satie, I did a deep dive into his entire works, and have never looked back! He's easily my favorite composer now. Nothing else in the "classical" genre moves me quite like the way his music does. Everything else just seems lackluster in comparison, of course with a few exceptions here and there. He really is in a league all his own. And I'm glad to see him finally getting the credit he always deserved.

Loved the Satie inspired jazz at the end! ❤

Wonderful video, analysis, explanation and clever variation, thank you Nahre!

Excellent as always

Thank you Nahre. Thats one of my favorites to play.

Your beautiful music is a real find for me & will enlighten my life for a very long time, for others too.

Wooow Nahre, amazing always amazing!!!!

Thank you Nahre - I could listen to you play everyday - thank you - you brought a tear to an old man.

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you!

Beautiful Nahre!

I really do enjoy the music, and how you add/annotate the it ! Thanks a lot !

That was lovely Nahre.

Simply GREAT 😍😍 Thank you for your inspiring videos!!

This was really beautiful! Thank you

Really love this, Nahre - I just started re-exploring this fascinating piece. It's amazing how modern it sounds and complex it really is. Thanks so much for great deep-dive.

The beauty in the tones of the piano.