As it is late in the evening, here is a thing that always gets me. It’s a simplicity of line and the stuff of a good performance. I have heard that in his day Satie wasn’t taken very seriously, or thought of as a composer of trifles. I think the melody speaks for itself.
I like this audio, don’t know about the video though. Interestingly, at least for me, rearrangements of this melody for other instruments simply lose the feel. It’s such a wide open, resonant texture…