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| KalleB (German Plain) | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 14:10 Old music, but hardly to beat. |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 14:03 The best version, for me, is the Velvet Gentleman by the Camaratta Contemperary group... Small chamber group from the '60s. We'll be hearing a lot about the pre-WWI composers, artists and intellectuals over the next 12 months as we head up to the centennial of that horrible summer. Satie, Faure, Saint-Saen, Stravinsky, Dvorak... an explosion of new and experimental music in that first decade... |
| bonjourtristesse | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 14:00 nicolaluna wrote: Does this feature in any soundtracks besides Man on Wire and Gloomy Sunday? I know I've heard it somewhere before here, today, in association with some film.... ~anyone? Le Feu Follet by Louis Malle |
| nicolaluna (home.) | Posted: May 01, 2013 - 06:19 Does this feature in any soundtracks besides Man on Wire and Gloomy Sunday? I know I've heard it somewhere before here, today, in association with some film.... ~anyone? |
| Pedro1874 (Newton-le-Willows, England) | Posted: Apr 16, 2013 - 06:17 Only 2 tracks in the library? More please Bill - absolutely beautiful music.  |
| PaoloManana (close to far away) | Posted: Mar 31, 2013 - 03:07 uwe-nik wrote: Very nice indeed! |
| petarsubotic (Cincinnati, OH) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 08:26 It's alright, needs more cowbells. |
| bitbanger (Upper West Side) | Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 16:09 Furniture music, but very nice furniture it is. |
| darcand (Montréal) | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 23:08 Thanks for this. |
| DarceySuzanne (Columbus) | Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 10:34 Life, encompassed in a few notes - magical, painful, beautiful...so full of longing. Nothing surpasses the divine inspiration of this melody... |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 10:32 MojoJojo wrote: I don't play this for my love. She is very lucky.  That made her smile (me, too) and she does make mistakes, still, I love it. |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 10:31 oldsaxon wrote: My love plays this for me. I'm very lucky. I don't play this for my love. She is very lucky. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 10:30 My love plays this for me. I'm very lucky. |
| uwe-nik | Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 09:24 for guitar players: Anders Miolin - Erik Satie - Gnossienne no. 1played on an Alto Guitar |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 15:48 What Ambient historians may not realize is that the proto-Ambient song is not this one, but Wagner's Overture to Das Rheingold. One of my top 10 favorite songs, by the way. Wikipedia does not mention the vorspiel on its Ambient Music page, but one of my goals is to change that and perhaps make one tiny contribution to music theory. |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 15:44  |
| ycb661 | Posted: Sep 29, 2012 - 12:37 this is a good version - good tempo - subtle - my favorite part of the sheet music has a dynamic marking of "du bout de la pensee" or in English "on the tip of the mind" |
| kojiroh (Istanbul, Turkey) | Posted: Sep 08, 2012 - 09:56 Heard the first two notes, voted 10. Simply a masterpiece. Satie doesn't have specific time signatures, so this rendering (whoever played it) is pretty close to what I think Satie would have played like. |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 12:46 Camarata Contemporary Group is had for most young-uns to find... I know of no digital recordings which means no CDs and no Internet radio... No digital sharing... Unless someone can do a Vinyl to digital to RP transfer... Pleeeese-!! I agree. Music w/o the percussion but using a Chamber group alone makes for very smooth and romantic evenings. Now if I could just find a similar treatment or "Pavane" by Gabrial Faure'... Suggestions-? |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Jul 28, 2012 - 13:39 I still find the string version by The Camerada Contemporary Group on the Velvet Gentleman to be the best version...But His sparse phrasing and instrumentation make it perfect for almost any instrument...(a tuba would be interesting)... He led me to Gabriel Faure and on to Camille Sainte-Saen... and a whole new world of pre-WWI music arrived... It has been a fun journey.. I hope all who enjoy his work will find his contemporaries and enjoy a taste of the world that might have been... The deaths of WWI changed human history... and for the better-? That can never be answered. |
| Easyrider (Portugal) | Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 02:17 A musical genius,simply wonderful 10/10. |
| Stingray | Posted: Jul 07, 2012 - 12:18 Robbiem65 wrote: Simply stunning. Still sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. Perfect. I am a mountain-man then! I have a spine, but no shivers! I guest I have to train harder to be a FEINGEIST. What about some north-corean pop-music? A march from Xosa-land or a lullaby from Finnland...?
Why not - do not be so ignorant! |
| Stingray | Posted: Jul 07, 2012 - 12:16 Bill's beloved "Klimper-Maxe" |
| vanmas (Leiden, Netherlands) | Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 03:21 Godlike! I love RP for playing also classical music! |
| Robbiem65 | Posted: Jun 05, 2012 - 17:59 Simply stunning. Still sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. Perfect. |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | Posted: May 20, 2012 - 14:21 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: I prefer this version by Reijnbert de Leeuw: see http://youtu.be/b4ElvJqEQRU Beautifully played, but still I do! |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: May 20, 2012 - 14:21 whomhow wrote: Much better than Tori Amos version ;) ha ha! no kidding....Just spat my wine all over, thanks for the laugh.... |
| ThePoose (Ottawa, capital of Canada) | Posted: Apr 24, 2012 - 13:07 SVP jouez Trois Gymnopédies pour moi et tous les autres ici ! Merci bien, Guillaume! Elvis Costello ripped off the licks in this piece shamelesly. |
| Hofgarten (Lower Saxony) | Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 08:24 Thanks for the previous comments, one reason more to watch Man On Wire after all and if I ever get to France again I might just stop by in Giverny to see the garden there ;) |
| cinziacursio | Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 07:13 This is a great one ! in a perfect combination with the rest of music you are playing ... very well done ! |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Mar 23, 2012 - 19:40 Listened to this (just came up on my shuffle) sitting by the Water Lillies lake in Monet's garden in Giverny last August. Heaven. |
| RKeaton (South of Paradise) | Posted: Mar 23, 2012 - 19:39 Can't see any reason not to give it a 10. This piece was beautifully used in the brilliant film Man On Wire. |
| costellar | Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 05:25 Improv saved my Life! (I am an alumnus of The Second City Theatre) and when I find artists like Erik Satie, I revel in the presence of a peer...oh yeah and a genius. "Gnossiene", didn't exist as a word until he like, Picard,"Made it so!" Make it up, Invent it, leave them guessing... brilliant. John |
| Euskadita (MX) | Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 14:43
What a good comment!!
Said it before and will say it again, no doubt many times ..: If they don't have broadband up in heaven and I can't get RP (which would be really odd, given the name) - I AIN'T GOING!!! But wait....Rainy day out the window in Melbourne, Satie on RP.. ... I think I am there already .... |
| rashad (Melbourne, Australia) | Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 14:41 Said it before and will say it again, no doubt many times ..: If they don't have broadband up in heaven and I can't get RP (which would be really odd, given the name) - I AIN'T GOING!!! But wait....Rainy day out the window in Melbourne, Satie on RP.. ... I think I am there already .... |
| Link84 (The Hague, Netherlands) | Posted: Feb 21, 2012 - 03:04 One of the greatest songs! |
| ziakut (Unmoon) | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 09:46 L'atmosphère est si merveilleux.  |
| narthur22 | Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 12:47 AndyJ wrote: This version is great... My -ALL TIME FAVORITE- version is a vinyl called "The Music of Erik Satie, The Velvet Gentleman" by the Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group. No available on CD... It would be so nice to hear "Pavane" by Gabriel Faure... I haven't found a version that has the same touch by the non-classical musicians as Satie. Suggestions-? AndyJ - I have the vinyl CCG and is my most favorite album. Searched for a number of years including Deram and for members of the group to no avail. Finally bought a turntable to digital recorder to capture but have yet to complete that project. This may get me fired up and while I have no interest in pirating, there seems to be no alternative. |
| whomhow (changeable) | Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 12:41 Much better than Tori Amos version ;) |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 12:41 Satie is often credited as being a forerunner of Ambient music. |
| ferwoman | Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 22:30 Cynaera wrote: I absolutely love this. The next song is playing, but I'm still hearing this one.  Well stated! I was looking at the comments, read yours, and realized I am doing the same thing right now! |
| denbear (Denver, Colorado) | Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 22:25 Perfect follow up to Carolina Chocolate Drops Snowden's Jig |
| Rockit (Ottawa ON) | Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 08:56 Real Music...9 |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 15:24 This version is great... My -ALL TIME FAVORITE- version is a vinyl called "The Music of Erik Satie, The Velvet Gentleman" by the Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group. No available on CD... It would be so nice to hear "Pavane" by Gabriel Faure... I haven't found a version that has the same touch by the non-classical musicians as Satie. Suggestions-? |
| carmengypsy | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 15:23 Was this featured on the movie Gloomy Sunday? |
| lucas1024 | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 15:18 I've decided on a new criterion for giving 10 - it has to give me chills, like this one does! |
| jocelynsart | Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 18:02 Holy Cow! was searching, to no avail, for this song jsut a week ago.....and here it is! Thank you!!!!!!!!! |
| Cynaera (Oh, who cares?) | Posted: Dec 19, 2011 - 15:50 Shaker wrote: Imagination awakens, journey begins. SO true. This song keeps catching me by surprise and distracting me from stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I always end up writing... I absolutely love it. |
| kcar | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 21:30 unclehud wrote: I'm feeling a littel cranky this morning, so ... The composer of this song is Eric Satie. I'll see your crank and raise it: it's Erik Satie. And he composed more than one two pieces of music, Bill. As brilliant as this is, could we hear some more works from him? Shameless plug for another Web radio station: WCPE in North Carolina is outstanding. You can listen to them online by going here: http://theclassicalstation.org/ |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Nov 28, 2011 - 10:22 I'm feeling a littel cranky this morning, so ... The composer of this song is Eric Satie. |