Erik Satie: Ogives (Reinbert de Leeuw)

[@shodanart]

Satie was a true master of melancholy melody with timing and space; unorthodox improvisational timing, like life, unexpected; so minimal, so gentle and punctuating chords that convey such poignant emotion. His sad life reflects in music our own tragedies, but always with a note of optimism. We shall prevail.

[@xoio]

She was the love of his life, but not the love of hers ...

[@MINGXI-r9b]

well said

[@Chris-rr9ud]

Nice words

[@warzone6700]

Really wish my generation would take a moment and just listen to music like this. It changes your mind, body, and soul.

[@galhas537]

and what if we shall not (prevail)?

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Comfort of Satie’s music is off the charts

[@pter7531]

RIP Reinbert de Leeuw 08.09.1938 - 14.02.2020

[@theghostofsmokeyjoe8792]

RIP

[@Gyodofer]

Rest in peace....

[@billhill7275]

The best Satie

[@beepboop0123]

Thank you Satie, thank you for your music ❤

[@MalabarTheGreat]

It's interesting to hear how Satie developed his early style. He truly was a modernist.

[@TheSpikehere]

I loved Satie when I was a punk, and still love him so many years later.

[@yunabiyikli3696]

+TheSpikehere He wasn't living in the right era. Should have he lived before or after ? I don't know but his desillusion and his ironic sense of humour were kinda punk for the time... Glad everyone can listen and relate to him.

[@ombo000]

Up the Punks ♡

[@Zogerpogger]

@@yunabiyikli3696 In many ways he fits right in with post ww1 absurdism

[@blackfeatherstill348]

He is punk

[@cristinar8875]

Que hermosos cuadros que eligieron para acompañar estás sublimes melodías

[@deepulse9752]

His first masterpiece. Powerful

[@radioimproved]

Timing patience Is hardly inherited Talent falls short Since no such thing Hardworking prevail Pain we all share More alike than not Any ear may hear find Slowly walking to grave With every chord define Another letter carve Into stone this place of Soon you shall bee many

[@joseluisrayagutierrez7715]

Musica pura sin ninguna indicacion inesperados acordes que hablan por si solos salidos de el alma desesperada pero con la conviccion de que la vida es una bendición y hay que que vivir el drama que nos da.

[@vanodyssey1659]

This is a masterpiece. Epic beyond all proportions. The chord at @0:39 is heavenly!

[@MartinDickMidi]

Alleen maar luisteren en geen woord zeggen. Geniet weer iederedag van deze muziek MartinDick

[@dorothygears1349]

I love Satie, everything he ever brought to life, with all my heart, soul and mind.

[@michaelmitchell5380]

A wonderful minimalist, almost Oriental in spirit, yet bold and challenging in execution. A wonderful new discovery for me. In some ways he foreshadows Phillip Glass.

[@williamwatts4790]

This music is somewhat modal. This shows how Satie was exploring other scales and modulati😊ns. Debussy did likewise after hearing Javanese gamelan.

[@jeshminedadi]

erik satie is one of my favourite composer....

[@BioHeinrich]

Music that is full of emotion, and meant to move you usually doesn't move me at all. This does. Pointed Gothic church arches. Knowing that young Satie wrote it in his small appartment while Big Composers had success with huge romantic works in opera houses.

[@nadaniente115a]

True, I agree. His project was not making what was considered at that time "beautiful music". Thank you. :-)

[@BioHeinrich]

Indeed. Thank you nadaniente for uploading this music!

[@silzai1]

tocar estas piezas es un placer que tiene que ver con la pureza y franqueza de un sonido.

[@TheMarjoke]

Hear hear. Reinbert de Leeuw is by far the most wonderful concert pianist ever who played Satie. It's like he knew Satie and understood him perfectly, maybe better than Satie humself did.

[@MegaCirse]

Yes, perhaps ... not sure for me ;)

[@eduardotort9587]

yes, he's good... nevertheless i prefer yuji takahashi... a little bit faster, in my opinion... like them both...

[@dianeperron6737]

I used to have my students do their written grammar drill listening to Satie while doing so. I heard that they were whispering this music as they were drawing their geography maps in their Geo classes. So, educating them to classical music was a succes and it showed a great influence of calming them down… 🩵 Hurry for Satie? 😊

[@ilovehifi]

Die lauteren Passagen treffen mich wie Hammerschläge auf meine Seele, aber keineswegs unangenehm.

[@pedroa.cantero9449]

Sublime por el juego y la espiral ascendente, como las formas que originaron esta pieza. Satie místico es un vivo ejemplo de quienes sin alardes se alzan hasta lograr las alturas. Vieja pretensión del ser humano que tan pocos alcanzan. Somos frágiles criaturas trenzando nuestras vidas como exiliados de ese destino que imaginamos eterno -y pasamos el tiempo matándonos para eludir nuestra propia fatalidad. En esa paradoja, solo algunos comprenden lo esencial: vivir y dejar vivir en paz, ahí radica nuestra grandeza. «La verdadera grandeza está en el valor que demostramos a pesar de nuestra consciencia de que somos mortales» (Ahmet Hamdi Tamponar, Paz, 2014:121).

[@olgakviatkovskaia4587]

pedro a. cantero, muchas gracias, no pedo decir mejor, comparto, saludos

[@zamfielis]

Inspirado. Gracias.

[@joostc4750]

"Sublime by the game and the ascending spiral, like the forms that originated this piece. Mystical Satie is a living example of those who without showing off rise to the heights. Old claim of the human being that so few achieve. We are fragile creatures twisting our lives as exiles from that fate we imagine eternal - and we spend time killing ourselves to avoid our own doom. In this paradox, only some understand the essential: to live and let live in peace, there lies our greatness. "The true greatness is in the courage that we demonstrate despite our awareness that we are mortal" (Ahmet Hamdi Tamponar, Paz, 2014: 121)." That's beautiful, Pedro.

[@pedroa.cantero9449]

@@joostc4750 Thank-you very match

[@joostc4750]

@@pedroa.cantero9449 it was 1%. me and 99% google translate to be honest :-)

[@Ukobold]

Reinbert de Leeuw gave us the best renderings of Satie’s piano work. He has, among other qualities, some deep insight of the phrasing and timing of the moods required to these « easy » but very « un-documented » masterpieces. He added the indispensable touch of freedom that lacks in the French piano school. A freedom from academism that, indeed, is what Satie is all about.

[@ansatsusama]

like heavy and delicate rain drops... just falling... blue... is so beautiful....

[@engelguillermotaboada2683]

Satie es un grande entre los grandes sus obras maestras del piano me desgarran interiormente me traen mucha melancolía y alegría al mismo tiempo . Algo tan bello y muy difícil de explicar es como una adicción que me pide más y más al estilo Satie 🇲🇫❤️

[@Jockedemus]

I had forgotten about this. Found a word doc from august 2010 mentioning this as the best thing I'd heard. Here I am again. And yes.right now. again. It's the best thing I've ever heard.

[@林國鐘-j6o]

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[@johannliebert8735]

@@林國鐘-j6o O p

[@throwintre]

Have you ever heard the first 60 seconds of Notorious Thugs?

[@joostc4750]

@@throwintre 😂

[@ab8jeh]

8 years on, time to come back to this?

[@rickspencer957]

Absolutely sublime music and a soul-stirring interpretation by Mr De Leeuw. The visuals are beautiful and most appropriate. Superb recording!

[@thierryvicente5717]

j'aime bien les toile de Monet l'enfant dans l'ombre c dur a faire mais avec cette musique c jolie 🧚

[@aamajor1236]

I first found this video shortly after you uploaded it in 2012. I've been coming back to it almost weekly since. No matter what's been happening in my life, this video has always had a place in it. I love the way you shepherd Monet's works along with the music; each transition seems so impactful and exacting. Plus, this is my favorite rendition of Ogives. Your video really adds something to both the music and artwork by combining them so elegantly and helped me to appreciate both more deeply. This video is proof that conscientious editing can create a constructive dialogue with the past. Please keep up the good work!

[@ParadiseisYoursNow]

Beautifully done: the music and the paintings. I would pay to see perhaps a 35-minute 'display' of this type at a theatre or museum. Well done.

[@nadaniente115a]

Thank you. It's very kind of you to take the time to say it! Cheers!

[@francoisemendousse-pineau6404]

Chaque note s'incruste en nous comme une douce blessure!

[@sunnydale22]

This is altogether stunning; what a perfect, compliment of a duo: paintings and piano, strokes and chords both so lovely and invigorating.. To the eyes, to the ears, to the soul, this is sheer excellence. So, thank you, Erik Satie, thank you Claude Monet and thank you Nadaniente!

[@nadaniente115a]

Thank you for taking the time to say it! :-)

[@MrHFMetz]

and thank you meneer de Leeuw; you are a great artist; nobody plays Satie so beautyfully like you do; an intense experience.

[@GeorgeWolff36]

sunnydale22 infinitely slow revealings

[@vincentd.centenophd263]

Thanks for downloading. One of my favorite piano pieces for contemplative listening. Meaning, a piece I would listen to alone, during the dark of night looking at the starry sky. - Yes, you may roll your eyes:-)

[@wormswithteeth]

No, that's wonderful! :D

[@esmejay9082]

Yeah, me too. I like to sit on my balcony in Paris and look at the lights on the Seine. It's so peaceful and refreshing for the soul.

[@TheCodgod1996]

Esme Jay thats awesome!

[@Timaeus3]

I literally do the same thing. There's no shame in appreciating the beauty of this world for what it is.

[@TiticatFollies]

Believe me, there are thousands, maybe millions of us who require quiet, dark contemplation. You're fortunate to be able to see the starry sky.

[@claude4268]

Un vrai ravissement... Un musicien a eu raison de dire que "la musique se regarde".

[@Erzkreutz]

relief for eye, ear and soul.

[@rvwrocks]

Goodness me, what a wonderful combination of music and paintings. Thank you!

[@tonymostromable]

THIS IS THE BEST VERSION I'VE EVER HEARD.

[@MegaCirse]

C’est beau comme la non-rétractabilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces; ou encore, comme l'incertitude des mouvements musculaires dans les plaies des parties molles de la région cervicale postérieure (Maldoror, comte de Lautréamont :)

[@mikestewart6517]

Much gratitude for the time you gave so that I could hear this wonderful music. Absolutely stunningly lovely. You will always have part of my heart.

[@nadaniente115a]

You are welcome and thank you for saying it so kindly! :-)

[@georgefirk5531]

I love this piece....Sept.28 2020 I now have the music...!

[@laurentziuro7182]

Great music, gorgeous paintings & beautiful video!

[@Memale2009]

Merci pour votre commentaire lucide: vous analysez l'art de Satie d'une manière presque poétique - et vous trouvez des mots qui sont apts à décrire ce phénomène! Melanie (Braunschweig)

[@CC-ns1gh]

Deeply sad..but controlled

[@bloodgrss]

Beautifully played with great understanding of Satie's unique world...the 'music' between the pauses...

[@RosemaryThomas1]

The first time I have heard this gorgeous piece. Thankyou

[@streetevangelist8202]

It heals me

[@daigreatcoat44]

Reinbert de Leeuw's playing reminds me of Debussy's description of Satie as "a gentle medieval musician who strayed into the nineteenth century".

[@Ved_Ran]

This is my favorite interpretation of Satie's Ogives... thanx for posting!

[@amt253]

Even Thibaudet sounds like an amateur Satie interpreter next to de Leeuw's interpretation of the Ogives. Finding this piece and then this recording really made my day today.

[@Memale2009]

Ah oui, cette vidéo pensive, lente et méditative corespond parfaitement à la musique d'Eric Satie! Merci!

[@Merliin81]

So beautifully played

[@Merliin81]

I'm sure he is in heaven now.

[@sweetguillotine7562]

This has inspired the famous debussy prelude "la cathedral engloutie". It's amazing

[@delko000]

I can actually hear it, nice!

[@warzone6700]

holy shit you’re right

[@Anonymous-re9fd]

Oh my god

[@smijification]

Hadn't realized that it predated the Debussy!

[@stephenkutos6400]

The choral in Deussy's "cathedral" is shockingly close to this magnificent piece right down to the double struck chords at the end (also beginning) of lines of melodic movement.

[@claudesalzman44]

The translation of "ogive" is ogive. In a gothic church it's the style of the windows.

[@MJHarrold57]

Ogee in English. 'Ogival' means 'having the shape of an ogee'.

[@RanBlakePiano]

I’m transported to France moving south on its western trail Chabrol land tremolat where ?Let Boucher was filmed ,my trip 1999 and meeting the villagers and sensing their reactions to moving back thirty years earlier.

[@simianto9957]

What

[@genevieveetjoelle]

je decouvre cette oeuvre d erik satie si belle si envoutante comme toute sa musique en genera

[@DrMusca]

De même je découvre cette musique, et comme toujours il y a tant d'émotions dans la musique de Satie.

[@bramhuysen5907]

The impressionist paintings are well chosen and complement Satie very well. He was an impressionist composer. Satie was to music what Monet and Manet were to fine arts.

[@Ale-qf1pm]

This couldn't be further from the truth

[@MalabarTheGreat]

Satie was not an impressionist composer. It would be more correct to categorize him as a modernist, if anything.

[@tykjpelk]

@@MalabarTheGreat And impressionist music has nothing to do with impressionist painting anyway. The impressionists hated the term, the same way intelligent dance musicians hate IDM.

[@Ziad3195]

​@@tykjpelk That is wrong in the sense that only SOME Impressionist musicians hated the term impressionism. Debussy, for example, didn't like the term because it held a negative connotation to it at the time. Impressionist music had everything to do with impressionism in poetry and the visual arts. Monet literally showed Debussy to his American friend. Monet, Manet and all of the French impressionists referred to their movment as "impressionism" after a critic called "Impression, Soleil Levant" just an impression. Satie predated impressionism in music. And he was totally his own thing. Some Impressionist musicians were inspired by him though definitely. I do think a lot of the paintings in this video fit though.

[@jazzhotline]

@bram huysen : Wrong analysis Satie is not at all an impressionist composer every well educated people know that ! If you don’t want to be stupid about Satie’s aesthetic you can listen to Jean Cocteau : he explains very well why Satie is not an impressionist and Parade ( Cocteau Satie Picasso ) prove that for sure.

[@bedenerexhepaj293]

Magnificent!!! I loved it!! Thank you for uploading this video!!!

[@solracpilino1967]

Sencilla y enormemente efectiva técnica de composición: Una melodía “gregoriana”, al unísono, es repetida idéntica con armonizaciones y texturas diferentes; De la misma forma en todas y cada una de las 4 piezas.

[@paulwhittam2974]

Stunningly beautiful. Really like the william or it version as well. Erik satie was a true genius in my opinion, love his music. This is truely special........sorry meant Willian orbit version!!!! (Not the or it version lol!

[@SassaSan100]

nadaniente115a, daqui do Brasil, eu te digo que este som de Satie é simplesmente lindíssimo, maravilhoso ! Gratíssima por compartilhar !

[@nadaniente115a]

Abraços e obrigado pelo feedback! :-)

[@steveturpin4242]

Delightful! Played so beautifully...thank you.

[@gerritvantwout]

It is so beautiful !!! I have this music on CD for organ, however Reinbert's interpretation wins.

[@sitarnut]

Reinbert's brilliant vision is one of slow tempo, a godsend in this generation of speed demons.

[@davidlewis492]

Quite lovely thank you very much.

[@Nonspecies]

a swan on the lake with spraed wings / a butterfly in the night sky

[@joeschoenberger8250]

I've always postulated that Satie was the first piece or seedling to what we would later evolve into jazz. The Germans gave me much as a child but Satie worked so much in what i can only describe a dissident melancholy compositions which inspired me to compose. Just for kicks,listen to Trent Reznor/NIN the Ghost set. Listen to Ghost13 of set II. Hear it? Mr. Reznor shares our love of Satie imho. I also love that although French, Satie's works sound very eastern European. Any thoughts on my thoughts? Be well.

[@huseynakberov5701]

stop thinking

[@joeschoenberger8250]

I do, when I'm listening to Satie! Otherwise, that is a exercise in futility.Curious as to the intent of your statement though. Be well.

[@marshacd]

Thanks for this informative, useful comment! I intend to look into Reznor. I agree that much of Satie's music evokes an eastern European feeling. Perceptive! A few glances at the art you have shown suggest Impressionism, right of course, but for me there is an Expressionistic feeling also.

[@MrHFMetz]

Joe Schoenberger When I listen to this great version of Ogives it takes me to where the galaxies make their rounds in the universe, in the silence of eternity. Anyway, Eastern Europe would do as well.

[@joeschoenberger8250]

The Ogives again a transport to something other, another place.

[@Billy-Box]

Wonderful.

[@giatekla]

I love Satie. On another note, the beginning sounds like someone's about to drop some verses.

[@UnterDerSonneOhUnterDerSonne]

Haha, I imagine that be funny somehow :]

[@joabdasilvagouveia3744]

Transcendental !, Obrigado!

[@CMichaelDonoghue]

The discovery of space-time

[@primalamusica3]

So beautiful! Thank you very much! Contemplative, mysterious , mystical, such an inspiration! And your choice of pictures is beautiful! What a fantastic pianist, I discovered him only today, thanks to youtube, Via Crucis by Liszt, fantastic. Why is he not better known?

[@BorsosGabor2023]

As I see it, Satie was an excellent painter! The music is also very nice. 😊

[@nadaniente115a]

Did you make a search in KZbin before making a comment here? You should! :-)

[@stefanomicelisopo5389]

Indescrivibilmente bello

[@sophiemarie71999]

I loved This !!!!

[@chiefslief1886]

Beautiful 💓

[@deviceology]

Lovely stuff !

[@onlyme2136]

Overwelmend prachtig :-)

[@simianto9957]

Mee eens

[@antonioeustaquiolara]

Great emotion,great performance thanks to play it for us. Thanks a lot. LOL

[@cristovamramosneto3068]

God bless you for posted this gold....

[@MegaCirse]

God is there for those who lose all chance of being fulfilled on earth. He will welcome them at the gates of paradise but will never intervene during their lifetime, it is not his policy! ;(

[@kristine8338]

La Douce France 🌹

[@salomeandeloe5318]

Reinbert de Leeuw also recorded Gymnopedies,Gnossienne and other of his works as well. The Gymnopedies are the best I guess,but you wont find them on youtube,sadly enough.

[@AGardenvn]

I love Satie

[@大塚美鳥]

ありがとう これからもありがとうございます

[@MegaCirse]

Excellent in mute to taste good Chinese dishes in a comfortable and deliciously decorated restaurant! To listen in moderation of course .. :)

[@miguelfreitas8694]

Amazing interpretation

[@olgakviatkovskaia4587]

It´s amazing!!!!

[@CANAirforce]

It's like a dream...

[@floydyopz]

I see I'm not the only one who finds this music profound and aethereal. I revere this as a rapturous and talismanic hymn to subtlety. I listened to it many times as I was writing my novel, The Kramvil, and I tried to translate the atmosphere of Ogives into my story. There's a samadhi-like calm in this music that you don't often find anywhere. We're all indebted to those who work to distribute beauty in this world and I owe a lot to Satie for transmitting an atmosphere of spacious sanctity. If you would like to read my story, you can find it here: www.smashwords.com/books/view/671145 On my blog there's more music associated with the book, plus some posters and flyers for it: yecaterpillar.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-horned-whale-by-jeremy-schanche.html Satie's art is unique. His Gnossiennes are probably the most hypnotic and unworldly things known - he is definitely trying to tell us something. A finger pointing at the sky.

[@Teal_.]

this may be two years later but I love the vocabulary even if it's just to flex a little

[@hickey8mypancakes]

Yes. Exactly!

[@williampuckett5440]

I think he's telling us that music doesn't have to be complex

[@critias6187]

hey yo who r u fo sayin that

[@beaasken2519]

The Univ. of Southern Maine OLLI Recorder Ensemble plays the Ogives and they sound beautiful.

[@MalabarTheGreat]

Wow! Are there any recordings? I'd love to hear the Ogives, played by a recorder ensemble. 🙂💯

[@ania5038]

Gorgeous

[@draculas1926]

Majestic!

[@covin2241]

¡Genial!

[@harpmanb]

Satie himself would undoubtedly classify the commercial interruption at 6:35 as an over-the-top composition kill shot. Pity.

[@MarcosEnsina]

seu canal e muito bom sou do Brasil sou fiel nas visitas e links

[@nadaniente115a]

Thank you!

[@大塚美鳥]

エリックサティーに出会ったのは中学生になって間もないころ、父親が選んで聴かせてくれました。衝撃的かつ落ち着きました。何かを求めて探し続けた。今もかな

[@KaizerZenos]

stunning

[@betanialeite3208]

amo

[@TacoVeldstraGrutte]

Ogives, Satie kreeg de inspiratie van de ramen van de Notre Dame! Mooie schilderijen van Monet!

[@TacoVeldstraGrutte]

I love the creativity of Satie!

[@calaf1816]

my the most favorite painter is Monet .

[@Volvograd8000]

Paz mental...

[@KimInChains]

I listened to this just after watching the scene with the girl in red in Schindlers List. I don't know if it was a mistake or not but there's something heartbreaking about this piece.

[@QualeQualeson]

There is sadness in all things profound, because it's heartbreaking to be human. Our reality is defined by contrast and all great art is born from it. (Remember that when someone accuses God of cruelty) "After years of heavy drinking, Satie died on 1 July 1925 from cirrhosis of the liver. He is buried in the cemetery in Arcueil. There is a tiny stone monument designating a grassy area in front of an apartment building: 'Parc Erik Satie'. Over the course of his 27 years in residence at Arcueil, where Satie lived in stark simplicity, no one had ever visited his room." - From the Wiki.