Hamelin in Stockholm - Chopin-Godowsky - Studies 3/14
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that performance was the shit!! wow, excellent...
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@patricioapaez Its true, however his 2002 recording of the Transcendental etudes is really mind blowing!
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@Frozentoes1 Libetta too......
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I love that Hamelin plays this repertoire as beautifully as he plays Haydn Sonatas.
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The Eb Minor Etude seems so effortless for Hamelin. Remarkable to say the least.
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@werq34ac Berezovsky is good but inconsistent :I
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Chopin + Beast Mode = Godowsky.
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great but a little circus!!!
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@belialah YUJA WANG!
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i adore hamelin and am completely amazed by his pianistic and musical prowess, but i've never been a fan of godowsky's re-workings of these etudes. seems superfluous and unnecessary, even a little contrived. i've been listening to these ever since i discovered from an album i borrowed from our library almost 40 years ago (i did eventually return the LP record). the intellectual aspect and the emotive content, in my esteem, are not sufficient to warrant them to be any more than novelty pieces...
Hard to beat. He and Berezovsky are the only pianists who do this repertoire justice.
Frozentoes1 1 year ago 12
I like Hamelin as a pianist. Berezovsky not so much. And Hamelin's repertoire is just fantastic.
werq34ac 1 year ago 9