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Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

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198 points gripewater | 2 comments | 28 Jun 25 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eitally ◴[28 Jun 25 12:09 UTC] No.44404102[source]▶
Satie's Gymnopedies have been on our household's "calming & focused" playlists for years now. Highly recommend, and I look forward to hearing these new works, too.
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TZubiri ◴[28 Jun 25 12:11 UTC] No.44404107[source]▶
Did you perchance find these originally on youtube? They're very popular on their autosuggestions.
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ithkuil ◴[28 Jun 25 13:20 UTC] No.44404529[source]▶
There are a lot of interpretations of Satie's work and a random playlist on YouTube may not necessarily get you the best performers, also because not everybody has the same tastes in music.

My favourite interpretation of Satie's is played by Reinbert de Leeuw. He plays very slow, playing just a bit behind the beat, with astonishing precision and expressiveness.

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1. zahlman ◴[28 Jun 25 14:04 UTC] No.44404771[source]▶
I have three different recordings of Satie's Gymnopedies on CD from many years ago: de Leeuw's, coming in at almost 16 minutes total; a version from 1968 by William Masselos totaling about 9 minutes; and on the extreme end, Klára Körmendi's version totaling less than 7 minutes.

When I used to play piano, I once timed myself playing them to my own preference. As I recall, it was around 11 minutes at the speed that makes sense to me.

Chacun a son gout. (Satie himself claimed to only eat foods that are white, after all.)

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2. ithkuil ◴[28 Jun 25 21:32 UTC] No.44408344[source]▶
He also claimed to eat only fat of dead animals, so yes nothing too peculiar I must say