Hamelin - Etude No. 3 "After Paganini-Liszt"

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[newFranzFerencLiszt]

I played this better.

Then I woke up.

[arsviatticae]

@PointyTailofSatan Agree. It looks like his fame of a virtuoso is hurting him being appreciated as a composer, at least with wider public, but certainly this man knows what music is about)

[15israellai]

This is a version of the original etude that is much harder...

[FurlanPaolo]

Who's the unbalanc... ehm, the interpreter?

[wagneristhebest]

@ts3011ISRL woah just calm down - you've written five replies? Christ almighty.

[ts3011ISRL]

@wagneristhebest (PART V)

By the way, Mr. Hamelin does not only use old material written by other composers , but also shows his own melodic and harmonic inventions in his works. Check for his "Con Intimissimo Sentimento" which is a suite or a collection of short piano pieces in modern jazz style (i think) with neo classical influences (i'm sure!) – real 21st century music!! (although composed mainly in the 20th century)… :-)

[ts3011ISRL]

@wagneristhebest (PART II)

That's all. Maybe he had added a few Cadenzas here and there, but with no actual musical value.

Then came Hamelin, 140 years later, and turned the innocent La Campanella into a creepy 'Danse Macabre' (dance of death). One could hear, right from the beginning, the very rhythmic knocking-like sound of the high notes (which does not even remind the sound of a ringing bell – the original intention of Liszt) combined with the drum-like accents in the