Hamelin plays Chopin/Godowsky - Etudes (Selections)

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A selection from Leopold Godowsky's extraordinary set of 54 Studies on Chopin's Études, played by Marc-André Hamelin. The etudes featured here are:

Nouvelle Etude No. 2 in A flat: 0:04
op. 10 No. 5 (1st version): 04:14
op. 10 No. 5 (2nd version): 05:58
op. 10 No. 6 (for the left hand alone): 07:47
op. 10 No. 9 (2nd version; imitation of op. 25 No. 2): 11:30

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[palpitamento]

Can you post some other left hand videos?

I want to see his master performance .

[madlovba03]

@palpitamento Well, to tell the truth, I don't have much more of those! Most of his left hand alone performances have been posted onto youtube. I have a video of him playing the left hand alone transcription of Nouvelle Etude No. 1, though, from the same concert where these selections come from; I can upload that one if you're interested.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

thanks honey :p

[madlovba03]

@newFranzFerencLiszt You're welcome my dear :P

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@madlovba03 lol

anyway you should post the other etudes in those videos with large pixels... I want to see better the winter fuckingwind for the left hand xD

[madlovba03]

@newFranzFerencLiszt haha lol those vids are bootlegs, there is no higher quality copy of them, unless at some Japanese piano geeks (the supervirtuoso documentary featured a part from that concert in higher quality, after all). I'd love to see him playing that badass winterwind stuff, too, he shakes the foundations of Earth with his left hand there xD

[sfsphil]

I think that with each passing day, more and more people are starting to realiize that Maestro Hamelin is one of the greatest EVER to sit on a piano bench.

[nathanscoleman]

I love this man!! I mean seriously, shouldn't someone be carrying his progeny ... we can't let his genes die out! C'mon girls ... take one for the team! lol

[1blairt]

He coulda been one of the world's greatest surgeons. No matter.

[TimmyTomTimTam]

Extraordinary talent, to say the least. Hamelin once said that Liszt was one of the most genuine musicians who ever lived; he himself is undoubtedly also in that category, although he is far too modest to admit such. I think that what really makes his playing great is that he truly understands the potential of music, and how to convey it as a high form of art. There are many great techniques in the world, but few are reinforced by such an incredible amount of musical insight. Well-played.

[awayfromallsuns]

absolute piano masterpieces

[jameslongPDX]

Gorgeous pieces played by an absurdly awesome pianist. My favorite of these has always been the [Chopin/Godowsky: No 13, Op 10 No 6, E flat minor, left hand] @7:46. Chopin, Liszt, Godowsky, and Rachmaninoff were the original "multi-channel" composers. There's a lot of melodies in these composers' works. They are not for all ears because they require concentrated listening and not just hearing.

[gsprpltv]

Best quality video of Hamelin playing Godowsky I've seen

[TheJuanitoPianist]

EXQUISITA INTERPRETACIÓN.

[RicAbapo]

@nathanscoleman if i were a girl, i would have done it! hahaa

[fredericfranc]

...the wonder here is the natural ease with which Mr. Hamelin unreels these bizarre concoctions...but, of course, he grew up on this stuff, so no wonder...Godowski was not much of a composer, but he was a kind of a pianistic juggler, W.C. Fields of the piano...they could be worse, one can always argue...