Anybody know the name or title of the Satie theme that plays all through the movie?
shareWell many pieces by Satie are played throughout the film. They are all called 'Gymnopedie' and the famous one is Gymnopedie no. 2. Hope this helps.
shareThank you! I had come to same conclusion myself but i wasn't sure because when I saw the movie i was not familiar with Satie works and didn't remember the details of the piece or pieces in the credits.
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That was Satie?
Amazing.
Yes, it is. I still remember the scene when he is getting up (off?) of the bus (trolley?). The music goes so perfectly with the movement. Melancholy in motion.
shareAmazing score, it is indeed by Eric Satie.
The specific piece is however, not of his Gymnopedies compositions, which the piece in the film sounds quite similar to. Rather, it is from his Gnossienne collection. The piece that plays in the film is Gnossienne No.1.
I hope this helps :)
Thanks for the information on which Satie piece features in this amazing film! That being said, I'm having difficulty matching the performance of Gnossienne # 1 from the film with any pieces I can find on cd. I've scoured cd stores and listened to that piece played by many different artists, yet can't seem to find the same version from the film. In the ones I've listened to the piano seems accelerated, a faster tempo, and not as haunting and sparse as the version in the film, especially the part playing during the DVD menu of the Criterion version. If anyone can help me locate a slower tempo performance of Gnossienne no 1, I would be eternally grateful! Thanks!
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The specific piece is however, not of his Gymnopedies compositions, which the piece in the film sounds quite similar to.I'm pretty sure both appear in the film though: Gnossienne 1 at several points early in the film while Gymnopédies 1 (the one I would have thought was "the famous one" :P) appeared much later and probably for less time overall. Possibly another passage from that set too.
I'm having difficulty matching the performance of Gnossienne # 1 from the film with any pieces I can find on cd.The performance was credited to Claude Heffler in the opening credits. Perhaps they used an existing pre-1963 recording. Alternatively, this disc (track 2) sounds similarly languorous, based on the sample:
The performances by Reinbert de Leeuw match very closely with the languid, melancholic pace of the ones used in the film.
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Piano-Works-3-Gymnopedies/dp/B0000069CS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1408698715&sr=1-1&keywords=satie+reinbert+de+leeuw
Beautiful cd!