Hamelin plays Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette Audio + Sheet music

Charles Gounod's famous Funeral March of a Marionette, played by Marc-André Hamelin, live in 1988. I posted this video because (apart from IMO it's very nice and despite this piece has been uploaded countless times) I'd like to dispel few popular misbelieves regarding Hamelin.
First of all, time and again I see/hear comments saying that his technique is "too good", everything is too easy for him, thus in the intoxication of ease he plays pieces much faster than they should be played. This piece is obviously very simple for him (it's a really quite easy piece, after all), but still he plays in very correct tempo and rhythm, even a bit slower than few other performances.
Secondly, a kinda similar (though ridiculous) criticism is that people say his only aim is technical perfection, without musicality (as one said on his interpretation of Liszt's Norma, "this is an sportsman, not an artist"). This performance, technically perfect though it is, is emotional, lively and humorous (a characteristic feature what often comes out in his performances, eg. in Grainger's "In Dahomey", /watch?v=bWgwPpb42kM).
Finally, a not so serious hoax is that he exclusively plays astonishingly fingerbreaking warhorses by neglected composers (pieces by Godowsky, Alkan, Medtner and Villa-Lobos, among others). This piece apparently doesn't fit into any of those categories.

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[madlovba3]

@Russischespionin This recording has never been released commercially, that's why you cannot find it. It's a live recording (presumably a radio broadcast) from the 1988 Husum Festival.

[Russischespionin]

Where'd you find the mp3? I'd love to do a figure skating routine to this song, but I can't find this particular version (my favorite) anywhere.