Rossini La Danza transcription by Hamelin

[paulostroff99]

Lovely playing.TY Sissco for sharing.

[vcupiano]

Hamelin has to be one of the hardest working professional concert pianist in the business

[SevenCircles]

@vcupiano

He actually isn´t according to himself. He rarely practice more then 3 hours a day. I don´t know if you should believe him though.;)

[ChesterFanningChorno]

Roll over 99% of pianists in your grave.

[f1f1s]

The Danza itself is one of the most catching and sticky pieces ever written. Hamelin turns it into a serious and verloaded etude which is a heavenly pleasure to listen, a hellish torture to perform. My favourite part is the final chromatic descending passage at 3:25.

[KarenBilson]

sounds a little like Circus Gallop

[flic71]

LO AMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[OrangeSodaKing]

This may be my favorite etude from his set of 12 etudes! I don't know for sure though... the Alkan one is always a blast, and many of the other ones are amazing!

[jojoereturns]

@OrangeSodaKing and the prelude and fugue!!!

[awayfromallsuns]

This guy is reeeaally goood!!!!

[lexarsepa]

I do wonder if Hamelin was aware of the Cziffra Transcription and/or the Liszt Transcription. He doesn't seem to mention either on the Hyperion website when talking about his etudes.

[coqdorysme]

@lexarsepa: He does know about the Liszt. The score has (nach Liszt) over the first verse, later edited to read (shades of Liszt) in the published score.

[ConcertoArt]

Thank you, sissco for posting this astonishing video. Mark-Andre can play with ease what’s impossible to play at all.

[ablablei131]

woow, when I see him playing with such technical perfection and musicality I think that he should practice a lot. But when you look at his repertoire's range and make some simple calculation it should take about a few ages for an ordinary person to achieve such results, so only possible answer is that he is genius.

[luciaganzerli]

@ablablei131 Non posso non essere perfettamente d'accordo con queste considerazioni.l Lucia Ganzerli

[Huffinearts]

He plays like a champion.

[SteinwayArtist]

Hamelin is the dude....

There is no other dude like Hamelin...

Long live the dude!

[mikhailasanovic]

I love Hamelin, no one can play like him.

[minasgekos]

he's got hos own style that's true

[pianist7137]

I have yet to find anyone who plays Hamelin's music as clearly as Hamelin himself.. Just practicing his pieces is enough to make anyone go crazy. XD

[chutdigadut]

uh, WOW.

[y1g1tcn]

i love how it goes to tthe minor tone at 3:10

[jojoereturns]

@y1g1tcn It's funny because in the score, it goes from F minor with 4 flats to F major for exactly 2 measures (1 flat) then goes right back to F minor with 4 flats 3:10.

[twooffour]

@jojoereturns

What's funny about the flats? Switching between major and minor of the same tonica is common practice.

[jojoereturns]

@twooffour The funny part about this is that Hamelin goes through that trouble just for literally 2-3 seconds of music.

[twooffour]

@jojoereturns

I get the charm and humor of the minor-major switches in this arrangement, incl., or especially that short one, but there is absolutely no "trouble" whatsoever about switching betweeen minor and major of the same root. Sure, the accidentals change, but musically, it's just F minor - F Major, and that's it.

[jojoereturns]

@twooffour Lol, we're not on the same page. I'm just talking about the notation. That's it. I think it is funny to change key signatures in the score for just two measures. Sure, changing modes is easy and nice and it works well, but he goes through the trouble of changing key "signatures" for those 2 measures. I think it's funny.

[twooffour]

@jojoereturns

Ah, now I get you :D

I think he did that to accentuate the "surprise element" - you think he's going to continue the theme in F major, as previously, but it quickly switches back to minor.

[demosj]

0:57 is a lot more beautiful in Hamelin's version than in Liszt's.

[pianist7137]

@demosj

It's wayyyy harder too!!

[sfsphil]

antoinezygfryd, you are entitled to your opinion, but almost no one agrees with you...anywhere.

[maxazi]

BRAAAAAAAVOOOOOOO !!!!!!!

[hotuser2]

we can be lucky that he has only 5 fingers at each hand

[madlovba2]

I think if he would be few more fingers he would be able to play his Circus Galop...

[danedaworld]

ahh ahh ...nosebleed...

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

i'm not as surprised at hamelin's technique as i am at his HUGE repertoire. Incredile; how does he do it?

[kastlesucksTDOTS]

Even his glissandos are better than mine

[pookiehohn]

Is it just me or does some of this sound very similar to Kapustin?

[massimiliano123123]

2:54 AHHAH beautiful!!

[MathijsGiltjes1993]

At 2:55 he gets really excited himself too :')

[muserik]

@MathijsGiltjes1993

And I dare anyone to notate just even the rythm correctly of that passage

[waltts]

wow

[anonymousQ45]

you can always count on hamelin to play something that will blow your mind

[mdeonx16]

My mind was blown, literally and figuratively, I mean, the brains were splattered all over my wall and computer monitor; that's how amazing it is :3

[geoffreyefloyd]

same thing happened to me, for a different reason however :D

P.S. Watch the movie mars attacks, you'll like it lol... ;)

[jojoereturns]

rofl, that's a creepy movie

[DougNederland]

I have only ever heard this played by a full orchestra, never a piano solo. It is amazing, thanks for broadening my horizons.

[Frozentoes1]

Ah....you mean too complicated for your limited understanding of greatness. Pity.

[antoinezygfryd]

L'horrible existe!

Massacre au steinway!

[waddleduckie1]

Nobody can play twice as fast! I feel my head is about to explode! This man is amazing! Is he on the Books of Guinness of World Record?

[afertyus1000]

how do you practice a piece like this? they are ALL hard parts

[javacisnotrecognized]

Extremely simple: You take the hard parts and simplify them by removing various things. Then you slowly add those things back again. For example, if you had a part where one hand was playing two voices, you could practice each voice seperately. Obviously, of course, the fingering and notes do not change.

[afertyus1000]

it was a rhetorical question,i know what to do as i have played for many years it's just this music is beyond the normal technical skills,not simple

[tdavis2797]

...sounds like abby whiteside; does that really work???

[liszzzt]

bravissimo

[HxHfun]

che tecnica! wooo

[Hellspire]

ah hamelin... marvelous.

[scordatura]

a god-like performance.

[erloy00]

I have this sheet in PDF!

I played a few months ago! =P

[sanctusignis]

Please send to quasifugato26 @ yahoo . com.  Thanks so much!

[mephyman]

He has a very unique "voice"

[AYBORA35]

that must be the best version of all

[angiolettiangela]

fantastic!!!! amazing.... you are a magnificent musician sir !!!! thanks franco

[felix0911176727]

I love this version...and Cziffra's version.

[jero13595]

Cziffra has a version of this? Where can I find it?

[georgecziffra]

I haven't found a performance of it anywhere, but I do have the sheet music to it.

[JlDsanity]

where did u get the sheet music to this song?

[georgecziffra]

Oh, there's a site I know...

[JlDsanity]

whats the site?

[78625amginE]

I have it if you're still looking.

[JlDsanity]

would you mind sharing it with me?

[pianovideo]

I got mine on a CD that was included with the sheet music. The book is available from Fondation Cziffra and distributed by Edition Peters, i.e. should be able to order it from you local music dealer.

[georgecziffra]

You have a recording of it? What is the name of the CD?

[horowitzian1]

I have the sheet music fot this etude,if someone is interested i can send by e-mail,its not hard,just look insane.

Sorry about my english,I´m brazilian.

[trialeti]

ooooooooooo, pleeeeese send the sheet music of Rossini la danza if you can... I've been lookink for thos for million years. thank you very much in advance. David Gogolashvili from Georgia

[stevey226]

Is the sheet music you have the one by Hamelin?

[horowitzian1]

(1:48 to 1:53)It´s really fun when he starts to play a beauty pharse in a ´´commodo`` manner then he makes a litlle break and play

´´Soforzato subito``arpeggio(secco)and repeat the main theme without ´´Tre Corde``pedal.

Sorry about my english,I´m brazilian.

[jasonextreme]

Hamelin truly is the Liszt of our generation.

[efraingonzalez]

grate pianist and grate transcription, I do not kwnow Lizst's but this one is WOW!

[caliere]

Hamelin is a god :D

[shilloshillos]

Wow. Liszt would have had a hard time beating that...

[lovesGenet]

Excuse me you silly nits.He was beautifu; around he time he made the Bolcolm  etudes.He is still beautiful or the music is so transparent and light.Nomatter how difficult each of his fingers has a brain.

[daeviydt]

Marc-Andre's wife IS attractive, and a competent singer with lots of insights (i have all their discs together and I've heard them in concert, not to mention ALL his discs solo/concerto)... as long as she keeps my man happy and busy-working she's an Angel in my book!

[adistar]

Really nice piece, this transcription of La danza by Rossini is better than the Liszt's one...

[aimard]

please! any body have this work in score for send to me by e-mail? thanks a lot!

[scottywobbles]

He is ridiculously good.....

[emtube]

The tradition virtuoso pianist composers who can turn other composers' pieces into encore ear-candy continues! Viva Hamelin!

[Duskygrin]

It reminds me a lot of "La Tarantule" by Liszt.

[Duskygrin]

He looks like a pervert (no really, he does, the way he purses his lips coupled with his corpulence & his glasses) byt plays like a god.

[pleasance]

oh my gosh that's exactly what i think too. that's why i quickly scroll down when the clip starts playing, because it's just too icky watching him play.

[celach]

You've got to be kidding me >_<

[nothanks001]

Do perverts have a definitive look? Who knows, maybe you look like a pervert -_-

[emtube]

I dunno, he looks a little like Schubert to me. But then, maybe Schubert looks like a pervert to you, too. Give the guy a break, he's from Canada, after all (joke).

[pleasance]

lol i'm from canada as well

[emtube]

Anyway, you should see Hamelin's wife. Quite the looker! If that's what it takes to get a wife like that, sign me up for Canadian perversion classes :)

[pleasance]

LOL, really? Now I'm curious... what does his wife look like? Is there a picture of her online?

It's because he's balding, middle-aged, white, and has those huge-rimmed glasses. LOL... well he is pretty brilliant, so I'm not surprised many women love passionate musicians.

[emtube]

I saw here on a documentary for Japanese TV of Hamelin's visit there. This was uploaded to You Tube, but has probably since been deleted.

However, I looked her up on the Web (Jody Karin Applebaum), and in a more recent photo, maybe calling her a "looker" was a bit of an exaggeration. There is an album out with her singing to Hamelin's accompaniment called "Serious Fun!" on Albany Records with a photo of them on the cover (but her face is turned 1/4 around)....have a look!

[hoohwa]

Blown away. What control! The one-finger glissandos...unreal. This guy is a machine.