will everyone stop making fun of Lang-Lang! idk y nobody likes him becuase he is in fact a very expressive and successful pianist! so unless you can do better, just shove off :P
@jigglypugz Actually, I think I can do better and have done better than Lang Lang (even though I don't have his money nor performance engagements). I will continue to bash him. He deserves it.
@jigglypugz Yeah, but I'm not bashing them to make myself a better one. I'm bashing them to make sure people know how terrible they are (when they are terrible). Internet = free speech.
@jre58591 I'm a fan of both Lang Lang and Hamelin, for different reasons.
Yes, the popularity is unfair, but why is that my problem? These pianists don't need defending.
You're free to voice your opinion, but that's not the point. The point is, why be an asshole? There's something deeper in you than just them being terrible. There's hatred there, and you're trying to mask it by only saying they're shit.
Lang Lang's performance of Liszt's 1st P Concerto is pretty good, by the way.
if you are a fan of the OTHER tube, the X one...as I am...it may strike you the way Mr. Hamelin works the piano, I hesitate a bit to call it "plays", gets along with the action at the other place, the threesomes, and so on...really rarely has a pianist's "work" that kind of versatility...certainly Mr. Hamelin has got something going here...
Fully agree with Nattino. Great musician but by far underrated. Maybe a wrong agent or bad marketing? For example also seen Anna Ivanova doing Liszt. Why are so many good musicians so hidden?
why is it called triple etude? I hear at least 5 of chopin's etudes in his play. sorry if he said that at the beginning, but i can't hear his comments through my laptop speakers.
@twooffour apart from these 3, I hear a bit of 10/5 and 10/12. But after hearing it again, it is certainly not a serious reference. The melody of 10/5 sounds similar to the left hand of 25/11 for me. And the more or less chromatique runs in 10/12 and 25/11 are also similar.
Haha, he misses the last note, but it's still perfect! I love this guy. He's an incredible musician and has a great sense of humor. He seems to be a really cool person.
Well hamelin can't ever be as hyped as lang lang or some others, because he won't play those overplayed pieces to the audience. Also the pieces he is playing requires open mind and sometimes lot of musical knowledge before you can understand the complex structure inside the piece, like in this one. As less there are classical musical listeners only small percent of those are willing to hear hamelin. I think this is the highest point of music and let it be like this. Hype will destroy it.
Well, this is an ETUDE, and as such it presents severe technical challenges which Hamelin meets with ease. This piece is extremely difficult to play. It i such a pity Hamelin's work is not more widely recognized.
why so much attention on fastfingers.nowadays everyone plays a fast clean Schumann toccata and many youngsters do godowsky studies.MANY thousands indeed.but how many would you really care to hear play a Schubert long sonata or even a slow movement.Volodos has both qualities.Liszt was more than fingershe could site read orchestarl scores&maybe hypnotic powers.his students dont sound sogreat except forSauerRosenthal theyhad personalities and thast the wHOLE STORY.NOT FINGERS BUT PERSON!
@Jim341046 The most technically gifted musician currently living, and probably in the last century. But Liszt and Alkan are probably one step above him.
uh i don't think Liszt would have taken to Godowsky. I'm quite sure many pianists are as gifted as Liszt now. Don't forget that the range of technique only increases through time. Before Chopin, no one dared to play chromatic scales with 4th and 5th fingers - and Godowsky is even more of a revolution. So.... i guess it's debatable.
Never! at the time of Alkan and Liszt the pianos were very soft and light , so, today our pianos are so heavy that a Virtuoso really needs very developed muscles...
@henseltetude The keys were also very thing which required extreme precision. And since the keys required barely any strength to get a sound, Liszt and Alkan must have had absolutely great control.
You are right. I agree with you, anyway. Alkan's Le Chemin de Fer Op. 27, Comme le Vent Op. 39 No. 1, C Major etude Op. 35 No. 1, and Hands Reunited Op. 76 No. 3 are probably MUCH easier to play fast on the pianos of that time. In fact, if you read William Alexander Eddie's book about Alkan, he (Eddie) talks about that.
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dats crazy da jumping of opus 25#4 with da early chromatic one an den all dat filligre too later wintawin. Not a musical idea but difficote fo compusishun i bet ya two.Lota peenises playin dees godawfsky tunes cuz dey well trained.but s dey higher musik making .Maybe dats y Langl and da rest get managd by da powerful brokers .i dunno.
At least he plays contemps iz so impotent. he play bolcom ayrudes i knew bout im way bak yonda. yes fust class muzichen. FUST KLASS!
The most underrated pianist of our time. In spite of his great ability as a supervirtuoso, and sincere interpretations....most of the hype goes to the likes of Lang lang and others. A few years ago I was privileged to hear Marc-Andre at Alice Tully Hall in NYC, and the hall was not even half full. The sad thing is, it only seats about 1100 people. Who ever missed it...it was their lost.
@Bret6464 No one can say why the hall was half empty. It was one of the greatest piano recital I'd ever witnessed. Hamlin is not a showboat. He's a pianist's pianist. Though you may disagree, but that is my opinion. Sadly, I find that musicians who act while playing their instruments attract the most people to their concerts. There is much to learn from Hamlin as a pianist.
@Naltino Think it is a question of preference, both Lang Lang and Hamelin are great pianists, but I would not go to either's concert/recital. Sorry about putting both names in the same sentence :-)
@Naltino Such a pity. But he seems truly to be a pianist for pianists, like Godowsky, and that an average person wouldn't catch neither the supreme technical achievements nor the musical significance of the Godowsky etudes, so that kind of explains it. Of course, Hamelin is one of those pianists which you almost cannot find an equal, even when we're talking about other first-rate pianists. Not many other people can play the Godowsky, Alkan, Busoni, etc.
Hello! Thank you:) Yes I know he is a composer too, but I know alsow he is a canadian! But on this video he said "one friend of mine...EUROPEAN" And really Godowsky has transcription of these three etudes of Chopin - op.10 #2, op.25 #4 and op.25 #11. But the texture of this piece is not like Godowsky. He loved more variations and to decorate his pieces with many small notes... I don't know:( Maybe he said about Godowsky?
A level of coordination between left and right brain that is almost superhuman. For him it is child play, for another it would be a lifelong study. Listen to it repeatedly to get a feel what this involves ...
This stunt pianist has some hidden extra fingers. I can´t imagine a stronger technique. In a way Hamelin is underestimated. Why don´t people talk about him as frequently as about Lang Lang?
"pedal, dynamics and similar"? Would you like to elaborate? What exactly are you you trying to group, considering that pedal and dynamics are two COMPLETELY different things? Do you know, or are you just a pretentious bullsh*tter?
Fantastico molto! A brilliant and clever piece of mimicry, with just enough of Hamelin, Godowsky, and of course Chopin. One almost has to listen to it three times to follow each etude's themes as they are put through the transcriber's sieve.
We need not to forget that they both lived in different eras...! Everyone looked like zombie in Cortot's time! It's really funny! Picture where no one is smiling because they had to keep the exact same positions for like... 10 minutes!!! Still, I really appreciate both of these pianists!
Sorry, sarcasm. In a flourish of super human productivity the dotty Joyce Hatto(who no one had heard of or seen perform)in her 70s, cancer ridden and in a wheelchair, put out two CDs of Godowsky Chopin transcriptions. They were ripped off from three other pianists including Marc-André Hamelin.
... actually... Joyce Hatto recording of Godowsky etude IS March-André Hamelin. I own one a her TRUE recording... she's not fantastic at all...! Sorry!
actually, grand pianos are almost always equipped with one. it is uprights that can sometimes either have a practice pedal, nothing, or a "half" una corda pedal (if you know what i mean) in place of a sostenuto pedal.
I recently heard for the first time Hamelin. It was his playing of Rzewski's El pueblo unido jamás sera vencido, I never heard that piece before neither. I do not what kind of adjective to uso to express my sensation after I listened to him...Fantastic'? maybe...
amazimg piece, amazing player, i just found out that Hamelin has been in my dads car!!! no less!, when he was alot less well known he did a concert somewhere and my dad was on the concert commitee and he gave him a lift back to the station!!
Amazing! The daunting Triple Étude...so many voices running simultaneously... Only a Supervirtuoso like Hamelin could accomplish such a feat! This Étude is even more challenging than the impossible Godowsky Études. Too bad Hamelin never tours in my country (Portugal)... :(
well,i used to think that he was a psychotic yet outstanding virtuoso who liked to play all the incredibly difficult pieces of the piano repertoire,but no......he is funny too...nice sense of humor.thank you, ire58591
hamelin is one of the nicest musicians i have ever met, both pros and non-pros. his nice personality and comedy jsut seems like second-nature. his comical commentaries for his encores are commonplace.
will everyone stop making fun of Lang-Lang! idk y nobody likes him becuase he is in fact a very expressive and successful pianist! so unless you can do better, just shove off :P
jigglypugz 4 months ago
@jigglypugz Actually, I think I can do better and have done better than Lang Lang (even though I don't have his money nor performance engagements). I will continue to bash him. He deserves it.
jre58591 4 months ago
@jre58591 why? bashing other succesful pianists will not make you a better one...
jigglypugz 4 months ago
@jigglypugz Yeah, but I'm not bashing them to make myself a better one. I'm bashing them to make sure people know how terrible they are (when they are terrible). Internet = free speech.
jre58591 3 months ago 2
@jre58591 I'm a fan of both Lang Lang and Hamelin, for different reasons.
Yes, the popularity is unfair, but why is that my problem? These pianists don't need defending.
You're free to voice your opinion, but that's not the point. The point is, why be an asshole? There's something deeper in you than just them being terrible. There's hatred there, and you're trying to mask it by only saying they're shit.
Lang Lang's performance of Liszt's 1st P Concerto is pretty good, by the way.
TehIshter 1 month ago
@jre58591 if he was truly awful, he would not have so many followers and be so successful....
jigglypugz 3 months ago
if you are a fan of the OTHER tube, the X one...as I am...it may strike you the way Mr. Hamelin works the piano, I hesitate a bit to call it "plays", gets along with the action at the other place, the threesomes, and so on...really rarely has a pianist's "work" that kind of versatility...certainly Mr. Hamelin has got something going here...
fredericfranc 5 months ago in playlist Hamelin
Fully agree with Nattino. Great musician but by far underrated. Maybe a wrong agent or bad marketing? For example also seen Anna Ivanova doing Liszt. Why are so many good musicians so hidden?
Anyhow he is great.!
greatclassical1 6 months ago
I see it, but I can't believe it ._.
TheExarion 6 months ago
Uh... pianist AND COMEDIAN Hamelin? Weird...but wonderful!
gsarci2011 8 months ago
I love how reaches back and whacks the low a at 3:39. Fabulous Hamelin.
liszt141 8 months ago
he's still playing piano in heaven, i hear it all the time
iBadx3 11 months ago 4
@iBadx3 I don't think he's dead, bro
auntiepicklebottom 10 months ago 5
@iBadx3 he's not dead! He's not old at all!
mikedeliv 8 months ago
I don't think he was satisfied with his performance!
Gibson29 11 months ago
Hamelin is an absolute genius!
pianoplayeruk 1 year ago 5
why is it called triple etude? I hear at least 5 of chopin's etudes in his play. sorry if he said that at the beginning, but i can't hear his comments through my laptop speakers.
benji104 1 year ago
@benji104
Interesting! Could you name those 5 etudes? This one's primarily based on the 3 a minor etudes, but I guess he included references to others?
twooffour 1 year ago
@twooffour apart from these 3, I hear a bit of 10/5 and 10/12. But after hearing it again, it is certainly not a serious reference. The melody of 10/5 sounds similar to the left hand of 25/11 for me. And the more or less chromatique runs in 10/12 and 25/11 are also similar.
benji104 1 year ago
Haha, he misses the last note, but it's still perfect! I love this guy. He's an incredible musician and has a great sense of humor. He seems to be a really cool person.
OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
@andreenzo U spelt that asshole's name bad YAY!
Laudan08 1 year ago 5
Man I wished Hamelin could come and play at the Walt Disney Concert hall here in LA. But instead I get Bang Bang.
jasonextreme 1 year ago 4
@abmsghost :-))
Bret6464 1 year ago
lol
newFranzFerencLiszt 1 year ago
@nyc11104 And your comment amounts to little more than elitism...
OverFjell 1 year ago
Holy cow!!! It sounds like THREE pianists at 2:53!!!
This guy is amazing!
Mrphilharmonic 1 year ago
Wow, so modest. If i could play like that i would be insufferable.
enrothable 1 year ago
Just unbelivable 0_0
poordiogen 1 year ago
Well hamelin can't ever be as hyped as lang lang or some others, because he won't play those overplayed pieces to the audience. Also the pieces he is playing requires open mind and sometimes lot of musical knowledge before you can understand the complex structure inside the piece, like in this one. As less there are classical musical listeners only small percent of those are willing to hear hamelin. I think this is the highest point of music and let it be like this. Hype will destroy it.
Aul1kki 1 year ago
@Aul1kki Nowadays he plays more standard repertoire, but he still does it very well.
OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
ribadisco: LO AMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
flic71 1 year ago
dude, it's just plain freaky as shit how good Hamelin is.... this is soo beyond me and over my head it's not even freakin funny
chutdigadut 1 year ago
INGENIOUS & DARING in both CONCEPTION & EXECUTION. Bravo!
sagalat 1 year ago
Well, this is an ETUDE, and as such it presents severe technical challenges which Hamelin meets with ease. This piece is extremely difficult to play. It i such a pity Hamelin's work is not more widely recognized.
shubus 1 year ago
i stood up and applauded at my computer
Fuuko0924 1 year ago 4
@Fuuko0924 LoL
hailkayy 1 year ago
I did in my pants...
gainweighttoday 1 year ago
Hamelin is a Master!!! =D!! This etude is very nice =P!! But I like more this one: Chopin Etude "Badinage" by Godowsky.
/watch?v=s0B_R4iOIIw (Alexander Moutouzkine).
/watch?v=V8U1s57ror8 (Marc André Hamelin).
edtskyline 1 year ago
what concert hall is this at?
Kalen1457 2 years ago
Vive le Hamelin!
MEpianist 2 years ago 2
why so much attention on fastfingers.nowadays everyone plays a fast clean Schumann toccata and many youngsters do godowsky studies.MANY thousands indeed.but how many would you really care to hear play a Schubert long sonata or even a slow movement.Volodos has both qualities.Liszt was more than fingershe could site read orchestarl scores&maybe hypnotic powers.his students dont sound sogreat except forSauerRosenthal theyhad personalities and thast the wHOLE STORY.NOT FINGERS BUT PERSON!
lovesGenet 2 years ago
I'm sure Hamelin knows plenty of slow music.
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago
@lovesGenet So what's your pernt?
sfsphil 1 year ago
Hamelin ist ein Tastenzauberer. Er ist ein Virtuose im besten Sinne.
klaviermusikfreund 2 years ago
This is really interesting! And funny too. And unbelievable.
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago 2
madoooooooooooooo!!! UN GENIO!!!!!!
flic71 2 years ago
@flic71 ¡de verdad!
sfsphil 1 year ago
Op 25 No 11,Op 10 No 2,but I cant gues what the third one is. any way it must be in A minor too.
konzolmester 2 years ago
yeah thats it Op 25 No 4 the key word is A minor..
konzolmester 2 years ago
op 25 no. 4
kevinm4435 2 years ago
Buffoonery? He's probably the most technically gifted musician in the world. Perhaps ever.
Jim341046 2 years ago 4
@Jim341046 The most technically gifted musician currently living, and probably in the last century. But Liszt and Alkan are probably one step above him.
ultracoolhomies 2 years ago
uh i don't think Liszt would have taken to Godowsky. I'm quite sure many pianists are as gifted as Liszt now. Don't forget that the range of technique only increases through time. Before Chopin, no one dared to play chromatic scales with 4th and 5th fingers - and Godowsky is even more of a revolution. So.... i guess it's debatable.
burobbi 2 years ago 2
Love Alkan. Listen to Hamelin play his concerto - unbelievable. Also listen to Alkan 'Le Vent' and my favorite - Prelude in E Minor
Jim341046 2 years ago 2
Never! at the time of Alkan and Liszt the pianos were very soft and light , so, today our pianos are so heavy that a Virtuoso really needs very developed muscles...
henseltetude 2 years ago
@henseltetude The keys were also very thing which required extreme precision. And since the keys required barely any strength to get a sound, Liszt and Alkan must have had absolutely great control.
ultracoolhomies 2 years ago
@henseltetude
You are right. I agree with you, anyway. Alkan's Le Chemin de Fer Op. 27, Comme le Vent Op. 39 No. 1, C Major etude Op. 35 No. 1, and Hands Reunited Op. 76 No. 3 are probably MUCH easier to play fast on the pianos of that time. In fact, if you read William Alexander Eddie's book about Alkan, he (Eddie) talks about that.
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago
i thought it was "pornographically interpreted version of chopin"... actually try to use some correct grammar before you diss someone :(
ToTWraith200 2 years ago
Care to explain yourself?
jre58591 2 years ago
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dats crazy da jumping of opus 25#4 with da early chromatic one an den all dat filligre too later wintawin. Not a musical idea but difficote fo compusishun i bet ya two.Lota peenises playin dees godawfsky tunes cuz dey well trained.but s dey higher musik making .Maybe dats y Langl and da rest get managd by da powerful brokers .i dunno.
At least he plays contemps iz so impotent. he play bolcom ayrudes i knew bout im way bak yonda. yes fust class muzichen. FUST KLASS!
lovesGenet 2 years ago
I love that little; "Im done everyone, you can- oh - (low note) - NOW im done!"
LetTheMusicFlow1 2 years ago
The most underrated pianist of our time. In spite of his great ability as a supervirtuoso, and sincere interpretations....most of the hype goes to the likes of Lang lang and others. A few years ago I was privileged to hear Marc-Andre at Alice Tully Hall in NYC, and the hall was not even half full. The sad thing is, it only seats about 1100 people. Who ever missed it...it was their lost.
Naltino 2 years ago 43
@Naltino Perhaps there are very good reasons why the hall was half-empty, think about it :-)
Bret6464 1 year ago
@Bret6464 No one can say why the hall was half empty. It was one of the greatest piano recital I'd ever witnessed. Hamlin is not a showboat. He's a pianist's pianist. Though you may disagree, but that is my opinion. Sadly, I find that musicians who act while playing their instruments attract the most people to their concerts. There is much to learn from Hamlin as a pianist.
Naltino 1 year ago
@Naltino Think it is a question of preference, both Lang Lang and Hamelin are great pianists, but I would not go to either's concert/recital. Sorry about putting both names in the same sentence :-)
Bret6464 1 year ago
@Bret6464 Lang Lang is not a "great" pianist. He is merely a pianist with great skill and no musicality that caught a lucky break.
OriginalBasaliskos 1 year ago
@OriginalBasaliskos that's questionable.
Bret6464 1 year ago
@Naltino Such a pity. But he seems truly to be a pianist for pianists, like Godowsky, and that an average person wouldn't catch neither the supreme technical achievements nor the musical significance of the Godowsky etudes, so that kind of explains it. Of course, Hamelin is one of those pianists which you almost cannot find an equal, even when we're talking about other first-rate pianists. Not many other people can play the Godowsky, Alkan, Busoni, etc.
physphilmusic 1 year ago
I'm sorry, I didn't understand... Can somebody tell me - is his "friend of mine" Godovsky? Or this is his piece?
cidorefa2009 2 years ago
For me, this "friend of mine" is simply Hamelin himself - him in the capacity of a composer and arranger, incontrary to him as a piano virtuoso ...
MAZURKAofLIFE 2 years ago
Hello! Thank you:) Yes I know he is a composer too, but I know alsow he is a canadian! But on this video he said "one friend of mine...EUROPEAN" And really Godowsky has transcription of these three etudes of Chopin - op.10 #2, op.25 #4 and op.25 #11. But the texture of this piece is not like Godowsky. He loved more variations and to decorate his pieces with many small notes... I don't know:( Maybe he said about Godowsky?
cidorefa2009 2 years ago
I am honored to listen to this guy....
mdoub 2 years ago
A level of coordination between left and right brain that is almost superhuman. For him it is child play, for another it would be a lifelong study. Listen to it repeatedly to get a feel what this involves ...
ipublica 2 years ago
This stunt pianist has some hidden extra fingers. I can´t imagine a stronger technique. In a way Hamelin is underestimated. Why don´t people talk about him as frequently as about Lang Lang?
bucciflash 2 years ago
I guess it is a choice, look at his personnality, he is very discreet, composed
hailkayy 2 years ago
He makes everything look too easy, doesnt bounce round so much as lang lang, and, overall, isnt hated so much as lang lang :)
Yamsareverytasty 2 years ago 2
Marketing.
Ltlevim 2 years ago 2
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Why? Because Hamelin is only boring, but Lang Lang, besides being a clown, is also a real musician.
Schamschi 2 years ago
Great Imagination, Staggering Execution!
RollaArtis 2 years ago
he's amazing
orannisthedestroyer 2 years ago 2
This man is an ET ! :O
MisterJSF 2 years ago
creative, indeed
luthor910 2 years ago
the left hand doing funny stuff.
bit of jazz there?
vulvatronic 3 years ago
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Por qué ostias es la puta manía de manipular estas maravillosas músicas? Me pone de los nervios
mazingerduke 3 years ago
His use of pedal, dynamics and similar can be improved no doubt but it is great little etude for supervirtuosos.
SevenCircles 3 years ago
"pedal, dynamics and similar"? Would you like to elaborate? What exactly are you you trying to group, considering that pedal and dynamics are two COMPLETELY different things? Do you know, or are you just a pretentious bullsh*tter?
battlebear666 2 years ago
you can change the tone a lot by using the pedals in a tastefull way, you can change the dynamics a lot tooo to make it more interesting
Horowitz is a great example of a pianist that was a master of that
SevenCircles 2 years ago
So is Sergei Rachmaninoff and Glenn Gould a good example.
ChrisWatch 2 years ago
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You f*ckwit. You go improve on it, film it, post it up here then we'll all trash your performance.
MusicStudyMan 2 years ago
what did he do at last
why were they lughing
take3571 3 years ago
He crossed himself before playing his etude^^
SecaMartin 3 years ago
no
I didn't mean that
what I wanna know is what they were laughing at end of his playing 3:37 ?
take3571 3 years ago
He missed the last note while coming to an end and he went back to play the right note. His face was priceless at that moment!
MatthewMingLi 3 years ago
Hahahaha thats as funny as ironic!!
davidalpiano 2 years ago
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Great dexterity, no music. Just a dirrea of notes
devitry67 3 years ago
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Yes!!
Appassionata90 3 years ago
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oui,c'est horrible,je préfère ABBA!!!!
Cauchemar,cauchemar,vomissures de piano.
antoinezygfryd 3 years ago
He plays 3 hard etudes at once... I would be content with the ability playing them in a row...
SecaMartin 3 years ago 2
Una pregunta, la ultima nota no le salio la primera vez o es asi la obra?
santiagox2 3 years ago
Holy cow ... he can do anything.
brianrein 3 years ago 3
Thanks piano0989! ... just a typing mistake!
cesarcui 3 years ago
I heard "Winter Wind" and the "Chromatique" etude, but what is the third one??
Scherzo567 3 years ago
10-2 The ballerina(chromatique)
25-4
25-11 Winter Wind
wltjdrhkr 3 years ago
some lefties from op.25-4
zielarzopl 2 years ago
argh this is so insane. i have his complete chopin godowsky but this is just--
I WANT THE SHEETS
coqdorysme 3 years ago
Fantastico molto! A brilliant and clever piece of mimicry, with just enough of Hamelin, Godowsky, and of course Chopin. One almost has to listen to it three times to follow each etude's themes as they are put through the transcriber's sieve.
mephyman 3 years ago
What a monster of dexterity...
fdaltrey 3 years ago 2
Hamelin seems like a really friendly, down-to-earth guy... unlike Cortot who just looked like a zombie most of the time.
I love it how he crosses himself before he starts :P
Waldszenen 3 years ago 4
We need not to forget that they both lived in different eras...! Everyone looked like zombie in Cortot's time! It's really funny! Picture where no one is smiling because they had to keep the exact same positions for like... 10 minutes!!! Still, I really appreciate both of these pianists!
cesarcui 3 years ago
Marc Andre has totally ripped off this piece from Joyce Hatto before her death a year ago.
tonyinvan 4 years ago
Actually, Joyce Hatto was a fraud. "Her" recordings have been exposed as reissues of other pianists' performances under her name.
Glenn
killersax 4 years ago 5
duh! ever heard of humour?
tonyinvan 4 years ago
Oh, was that supposed to be funny?
killersax 4 years ago
Sorry, sarcasm. In a flourish of super human productivity the dotty Joyce Hatto(who no one had heard of or seen perform)in her 70s, cancer ridden and in a wheelchair, put out two CDs of Godowsky Chopin transcriptions. They were ripped off from three other pianists including Marc-André Hamelin.
tonyinvan 4 years ago
... actually... Joyce Hatto recording of Godowsky etude IS March-André Hamelin. I own one a her TRUE recording... she's not fantastic at all...! Sorry!
cesarcui 3 years ago
Good news, everyone! I won't be playing this anytime soon.
pjf2272 4 years ago 5
hahahaha!
4444matthew4444 4 years ago
Op. 10 n 2
Op. 25 n 4
Op. 25 n 11
All 3 A minor studies
covallini 4 years ago
I know he mixes in Winterwind and Op. 10 No. 2, but whats the third etude mixed in?
NimaAbbasi 4 years ago
op 25 nr 4 -- you can see it for free at imslp DOT org
pgbluster 4 years ago
not anymore im afraid
4444matthew4444 4 years ago
Fear not! IMSLP is opening back up in July.
sanctusignis 3 years ago
Its a shame we cant see his left arm, thats where the real 'action' is.
celach 4 years ago
actually, grand pianos are almost always equipped with one. it is uprights that can sometimes either have a practice pedal, nothing, or a "half" una corda pedal (if you know what i mean) in place of a sostenuto pedal.
jre58591 4 years ago
I recently heard for the first time Hamelin. It was his playing of Rzewski's El pueblo unido jamás sera vencido, I never heard that piece before neither. I do not what kind of adjective to uso to express my sensation after I listened to him...Fantastic'? maybe...
gavril07 4 years ago
fantastic would be an understatement, in my opinion.
jre58591 4 years ago
sounds kinda like toccata by prokofiev ..... but it isnt ^^ ..... can anyone please tell me what the middle pedal is for ?
lukey7650 4 years ago
what a great artist!
amazing technique!
dsamogray 4 years ago
amazimg piece, amazing player, i just found out that Hamelin has been in my dads car!!! no less!, when he was alot less well known he did a concert somewhere and my dad was on the concert commitee and he gave him a lift back to the station!!
daoc2005 5 years ago
Not only the best living pianist, possibly the best that ever lived
terryregnar 5 years ago
Hamelin is playing Joke. He has played some more difficult pieces. This is amazing, of course!
I am inclined to say that Hamelin is the greatest living pianist of the World.
Dihelson 5 years ago 2
your inclination would be correct, for many many reasons.
jre58591 5 years ago
Great Etude.
AMAZING!!!
patricioapaez 5 years ago
wow, youre one lucky bastard. what was it like to have a lesson with him??? i want all the details.
jre58591 5 years ago
Oh.My.God.
newton2060 5 years ago
Amazing! The daunting Triple Étude...so many voices running simultaneously... Only a Supervirtuoso like Hamelin could accomplish such a feat! This Étude is even more challenging than the impossible Godowsky Études. Too bad Hamelin never tours in my country (Portugal)... :(
DaHeichef 5 years ago
yes,but in your country you can see the great Maria Joao Pires,and Ricardo Castro...oh...and Cristiano Ronaldo :))
DoctorGradus 5 years ago
that's insane
guillaumepilote 5 years ago
well,i used to think that he was a psychotic yet outstanding virtuoso who liked to play all the incredibly difficult pieces of the piano repertoire,but no......he is funny too...nice sense of humor.thank you, ire58591
DoctorGradus 5 years ago
hamelin is one of the nicest musicians i have ever met, both pros and non-pros. his nice personality and comedy jsut seems like second-nature. his comical commentaries for his encores are commonplace.
jre58591 5 years ago
so,you 've really met him?in canada i suppose....or not?
DoctorGradus 5 years ago
i met him in san francisco on april 28 (for a lecture) and april 29 (for a concert).
jre58591 5 years ago
i would like to see him one day...but he doesn't perform in europe, does he?
DoctorGradus 5 years ago
he performs in europe more than in the US. you can find his concert schedule here: http://www.giamanagement.com/concertdiary.asp?MusicianID=2
jre58591 5 years ago
oh, thanks a lot! :)
DoctorGradus 5 years ago
amazing!!!
cowheadcow 5 years ago