Satie's Trois Gymnopedies: Classic or Dud?

Not "slow and painful" - think of it as "slow and sorrowfully". The preamble to my ancient copy takes pains to impress that it's dance music so it has to at least kinda lope along a bit rather than a death march.

You can play #1 pretty fast and it sounds great imo (maybe since the tune is so familiar). 2 & 3 don't work as well.

I like hearing it very slow but I’m playing it somewhere in the neighborhood of mm60 I think which is slow but not funereal. A big thing to me seems to play sempre non rubato, avoid the temptation to slow way down for the cadences.

I’m only like two years and a bit into learning piano so nailing the dynamics is a substantial physical challenge for me. I’ve heard a range of interpretation there as well. How loud do the crescendos get? Where is the forte?