Hamelin plays 'Tarantella (S.162)' by Liszt - Audio + Sheet Music

[DanMarcy1]

I'm wondering where Hamelin pulls the alternative text at 4:55 from. I can't tell if it's from Liszt's hand (from some obscure edition?), or from MAH's own hand. I prefer it to the repeated notes, however.

[tlacaman]

what a monstruous score

[newgeorge]

quite astonishing performance! why have I never heard of this guy before????

[tuberobotto]

Such astounding accuracy playing at that speed coupled with well-tempered expressiveness, I could hardly believe it wasn't being played by Rachmaninoff or Lhevinne or Paderewski. The piece also tells of Hamelin's finger span which is probably as huge as Van Cliburn's 13 note span. What bravura, what brilliance! I think this version will stand well alongside the Lisztonian connoisseur Mr. Leslie Howard.

[driemaaldrommels]

that f*ck me @9:12 always makes me laugh! Epic playing by the way!

[Udders666]

Fucking Liszt!

[masterofmetallica09]

I would have sworn this was Alkan, If I didn't read the title. Alkan and Liszt have so many similarities.

[OrangeSodaKing]

Thanks for the upload! After hearing this, I bought this track, along with the two other parts of Venezia e Napoli from iTunes, and it's all fantastic.

[MusicTransciption94]

Though Liszt's tarantella was heavily influenced by Rossini-La Danza, I still found it very unique and amzing.

[FranzLisztFerentz]

Someone better than Liszt?

This person doesn't exist :)

[stevetadworkz]

@FranzLisztFerentz I love this piece, but I'd take Chopin if forced :)

[chopinpianist1991]

@FranzLisztFerentz

Godovsky :)

[holzfilet94]

i laughed at "piu vivace"

[macmillan117]

hamelin should record ravels alborada with that kind of repeated notes

[jrb040892]

Love the annotation at the end.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

fast as fucking hell

[ThePasSionFreaK]

its crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[thewebsapiens]

i more like this - watch?v=mtvcsBHvMOc

Grigory Ginzburg.

[Pollinikrys]

CAT: Calibre Avec Tarantella :)

[Pollinikrys]

simply fantastic! the most brilliant shining star of piano playing! Hamelin, true incarnation of perfectionistic humanism!

thx again, thx always, mr. CAT. :)

[tomekkobialka]

@Pollinikrys Mr CAT??? Que?

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@tomekkobialka hello mr cat hahahahaha

[Geniusmu09]

For Pf: Marc Andre Hamelin

Does that mean PIANOFORTE - m.a.h.

or PERFORMANCE: m.a.h.

[tomekkobialka]

@Geniusmu09 It used to mean 'pianoforte', but since I use that 'pf' in my orchestral stuff as well it's just 'performance' from now on. ;)

[hyperklavier]

This is da best!!!

[TripleRhu]

Cziffra's one is my favorite!

[tomekkobialka]

@TripleRhu Cziffra played this?!?!?! O_O

[TripleRhu]

@tomekkobialka Indeed. check out the video response i gave you.

[0530pianist]

@tomekkobialka

Yes.I Watched. it's in my favourites.

[madlovba3]

@tomekkobialka Sure he did! /watch?v=mnuBejUMhmM But it's not as good as Hamelin's IMO.

[MartinVanBoven]

@tomekkobialka Cziffra DEFINED this.

[twooffour]

The segment from 7:55-8:12 is so much better live :D

[OskarTheGrouch]

I would say it's an unvelievable performance if I didn't know it's Hamelin.

[2hyeok]

0:41 - 0:59 and 1:33 - 1:56 is so amazing liszt is a genius!

[OrangeSodaKing]

I want to do the entire Venezia e Napoli sometime. Maybe in the next year or two. Hamelin BEASTS this. Dang!!

[CalgarySpeller26]

@OrangeSodaKing He pretty recently released a CD with the entire Venezia e Napoli. And he played a few concerts with the set in the program (I attended one of them :D).

[OrangeSodaKing]

@CalgarySpeller26 Yes, I reeeeally want that CD!!

[nathanscoleman]

I saw Hamelin play the whole Venezia e Napoli last year ... and when he got to the repeated notes in the Tarantella, the audience literally gasped out loud at the speed! it was a great moment!

[twooffour]

@nathanscoleman

Not in Munich by any chance?

That's where I heard it last year, although I can't remember any gasping at that point...

[nathanscoleman]

@twooffour

Nope ... it was in Texas. Fort Worth's Bass Hall to be specific. He also did a Haydn Sonata, some Debussy and several of his own etudes! I

It was totally worth the 3 and half hour drive!

[DadoD999]

Chinese girl played this on a competition and she was only 13.

[tomekkobialka]

@DadoD999 How surprising (!)

[TheClaux97]

@DadoD999 I'm 14, and I'm studying it =)

[tomekkobialka]

@TheClaux97 But will you learn it? :)

[TheClaux97]

@tomekkobialka I hope it =)

[bb0ysmiley]

@tomekkobialka If he/she never start thinking that it is to hard , and just keep practising it no mather how long it takes, he/she will learn it in not to much time =)

[Bochum96]

@tomekkobialka

Of course he will learn it. It's not that hard. I'm also 15 and studying it. Of course it needs a lot of practise but it's much easier than many other Liszt pieces ;)

[OrangeSodaKing]

@Bochum96 This is very difficult, just like any music, whether it be a Chopin prelude or a Mozart sonata or a Beethoven sonata or a Brahms concerto, is very difficult to make sound well. But I do see what you mean. You're saying that the physically taxing factor of this piece isn't as difficult as it seems, compared to something like Mazeppa or Feux Follets, right?

[0530pianist]

@DadoD999

Oh my god,but Ithink Hamelin is better.

[DadoD999]

@0530pianist Ofcourse wayyyyyyy better!!!

[titusbeertsen]

@DadoD999 Impressive. I could wipe my own ass when I was only 1 year old! (and I'm not even chinese! :)

[AcePro]

I think the "f*ck me" was for the fact that that passage is ridiculous to play.

[EugenArbrakh]

Why the "F*ck me" at the end? O___O

[TheClaux97]

4:56 ????????? o.o

=)

[tomekkobialka]

@TheClaux97 Hamelin might've had a different version of sheet music, so the notes don't exactly match.

For which I apologise :(

[runeweb]

Piece of cake for Hamelin?

[TheClaux97]

I'm studying this !

[runeweb]

what's wrong @ 9:12?

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

Napoli e Venezia, if I remember correctly. I hope my knowledge is correct.....XD

[f1f1s]

Hamelin's performances are capable of developing a listener's fluster: on one hand, these pieces are rendered so tasty and luscious that one will download the score and dare to try, on the other --- one will be strikingly disappointed by how far such a performance lies away from his capabilities that an inferiority complex is inevitable.

Bravo MAH! This recording is a bit different (slower) from the one already present... Where's it from?

[madlovba2]

@f1f1s It's from his commercial CD, "Liszt: Piano Sonata": /watch?v=5_iMNdfevAo

[Laudan08]

Nice job. Liszt is the only composer that demands the performer and the listener to the limit, but makes his pieces interesting to the others...

[electrocompany]

Thanks so much for sharing! I heard Kissin play the Tarantella some weeks ago i Bergen, but Hamelin is just amazing.

[Wivanunu]

Did you know that composers Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov had Synesthesia. They disagreed on the colors of music keys. They could see music notes in color!! Google it..... it's amazing!! There are many forms of Synesthesia......2 senses are connected somehow in the the brain.

[Gatapotata]

@Wivanunu Wasnt it Scriabin and Rimsky-Korsakov???

[Wivanunu]

@Gatapotata I just read that 56% of classical musicians polled see a color when they hear music. Mozart did too!! Scriabin was also a synesthete but his worked a bit differently. I just recently came across all of this and it's amazing. I have a form of this but I never understood what it was!! I'm almost 40 and I didn't realize it has a name!!! I just thought It was normal and everyone saw things the same.

[NathanPlano]

Also the chord he added at 5:12 is so Hamelinesque!

[Mozartstavanger]

Hamelin really makes the piano to sing, its beautiful!

Thanks for sharing!

[300musicmaster]

how the heck is this possible?? wow. :D

[pianoaddict06]

holy crap hamelins a friggin machine