Marc-André Hamelin Plays Mozart, Debussy, Hamelin and Schubert
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2017
- Moscow, 2016
All credit to Moscow Philharmonic Society
Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 18 in D, K. 576 02:02
Debussy - Images, Book II 17:26
Hamelin - Pavane Variée (2014) 32:05
Hamelin - Variations on a Theme by Paganini 42:37
Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 21, D. 960 54:26
Encore 1:42:36 (Feinberg - sonata op.1 no. 1)
We see so many pianists with expressive faces and lots of body movement. Marc-André is always doing his brilliant work without suffering. Always a pleasure. Following his work for around 30 years.
Feinberg's 1st sonata as an Encore? What a legend.
Definitely was not expecting that piece but very happy about it
That's exactly what i was thinking about😂, he is just the GOAT!
Noticed a slip up that had a brilliant recovery moment - At 1:11:14, during the recapitulation of the Schubert sonata's first movement, it seems he forgot to take the transition during the second theme (the Gb with the rolling left hand part) which shifts it into a new key for the ending. Instead he slipped into playing it the way it was back during the exposition, then realizes around 1:11:31 he went too far into the wrong bit and makes this this swift little key change flourish into the correct section. To notice that in the moment, not let it ruin the part you're playing even though it's misplaced, and then transition so smoothly to the right part is just incredible. I'd bet hardly anyone in the audience even noticed it, he kept it so seamlessy beautiful. Hamelin rules.
Blake Anderson nice catch!
This is one of my favorite piano sonatas EVER and I didn't even notice this. I've listened to it in concert twice, did nothing but listen to a record two more, and on the background at least twenty; and yet, it just slid by my attention. I admit it was on background this time, but his ease of expression and recovery is incredible.
42:58 nice - little this time - recovery.
I didn't notice that.. thank you!
@@jahkneeboi calm down lmao
The encore is Samuil Feinberg's piano sonata number 1,
Marc André Hamelin, always getting better and better...We are simply speechless!!! Congratulations for the gift of your music and marvelous humility. The BEST PIANIST ALIVE!
Well said!
Eddie Beato One of the very greatest for sure. But have you heard Bertrand Chamayou?
Agreed, and also Arcadi Volodos (check out the Volodos in Vienna video or his latest recording of Brahms solo pieces)
"The best - greatest pianist" ? Is that really meaningful - well-defined? Some would rate, for example, Arthur Brendel very highly, but he's never (as far as I know) played Ravel, or Debussy or much Rachmaninov, or, or. How could he be judged against other pianists who have. This is just one of many examples I could give.
It might be meaningful to say that A's recording of a particular piece, x, is better than B's and perhaps many people would agree - but that's not quite the same statement is it?! And perhaps C's recording of y is rated by many better than A's so where does that get you! And so and so on!
It's quite easy to string words together in what, at first glance, might seem a meaningful phrase - but a little thought sometimes reveals it is not meaningful at all!
Let's elaborate then:
I think we can all agree that Hamelin and Volodos are the most technical living pianists as we speak. I can't think of any well-known pianist that can even come close to their technical prowess.
About the "best" word, regarding Hamelin: yes, it's a little general and vague. However he dares attack musical pieces that very, VERY few other pianists even think of attempting.
Alkan, Villa-Lobos and the like for instance.
I agree to his reasoning. Yes, I don't care listening to yet another performance of Chopin's Polonaise op.53. Enough is enough, so let's build a career with lesser known music APART FROM the standard repertoire.
For instance, the best Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2 ever recorded is his, also available here on youtube (his own cadenza is beautiful stuff of pianistic nightmares).
There are many examples of his attacks on the standard repertoire that are SPOT-ON. Take Bach-Busoni Chaconne or Liszt Tarantella, or his takes on Godowsky's etudes and Rach's sonata 2. The examples are endless.
Bottom line, I think he is up there, on the pantheon of a handful of pianists that can be considered the true, indisputable living Masters of the instrument. Not only for his repertoire originality and quality, but on it's mix with standard and obscure music, especially the latter which is most of the time ridiculously demanding.
A pianist’s dramatic facial expressions and ballerina-like hand gestures may grab your attention for short periods but such detailed interpretation of the pieces by Hamelin are permanently arresting, transporting one to realms beyond the ordinary. The universe is enriched by your music❤❤❤
High caliber… Like I always say “If the Mozart is good, you can expect the rest of the recital to be an interesting experience” Inspiring performance. I love it when the instrumentalist incorporates some of their own creations into the program (it would be great if every musician dared compose at least a few bars, once in a while. What the world of music cries out for is not more instrumentalists but more composers, fresh music..) Mozart’s Adagio is so intimate, dramatic, and delicate.. I love it. Debussy (if interpreted this masterfully) never fails to leave me floating out there somewhere that is definitely not in this plane and in which you can only feel and contemplate peace, beauty, and perfection… Hamelin’s compositions are, without a doubt, very original and interesting (definitely a highlight of his recitals). What a special moment Schubert’s andante sostenuto was. My grandfather used to say that you know how good a car is, driving uphill, and how good the driver is, driving downhill. And I say that you know how good a musician’s technique is when playing fast and virtuosic passages and how good the musician is in terms of musical expression and sensitivity when playing slow-tempo pieces. If I had to choose one piece out of this whole recital it would definitely be this second movement (the pianoforte literally sang). The rest of the sonata was wonderful, too. Schubert would certainly be pleased with your interpretation of one of his most important works which is considered by many highly personal and autobiographical. I confess I haven’t heard this encore before. Very passionate and interesting sonata… Delightful concert, bravo Maestro Hamelin!!!
HAMELIN IS FANTASTIC
There is a certain generosity to Mr. Hamelin that can be noted listening to this. If you watch his extended interview (I think called “The Classical Life”), he describes his performances as “an offering”, but not only that, but attempting to communicate directly to every single member of the audience- and he clearly meant it. He intends, and focuses himself, on trying to reach every individual member of the audience personally, individually. He does not project to “an audience” but individual people assembled. I’m convinced he means it, from the most steeped connoisseur to the musically underexposed child dragged by a parent, and all equally important to Mr. Hamelin. This is so generous, and I think meant very literally by him.
But that said, it’s worth comparing to a statement by Glenn Gould, who notoriously hated public performances, thinking the studio far superior. Gould thought the concert with an amassed audience a vulgar ritual and spectacle, and said the ideal concert should ideally be a direct communication of “one on.....ZERO.” In Gould’s view the piece should be played as a spiritual communion with the musical piece itself (and I suppose the composer himself, but even that’s called into question by “zero”; he did not after all say it should be an intimate conversation with the composer, but “one on zero”); these are two fundamentally different notions of the pianist’s art: one almost solipsistically introverted, “tolerating” an audience relegated to a kind of eavesdropper status, and Mr. Hamelin’s by comparison much more “other-directed” and extrovertish conception/orientation.
Mr. Hamelin is obviously a tremendous artist, and equally obviously, tremendously generous, giving compared to Gould. But part of me thinks like Gould: maybe in some ways one connects with the audience most deeply by forgetting the audience, allowing them to “eavesdrop.” Each discloses the self to the audience, but in very different ways. Mr. Hamelin maybe is much more generous, and caring with the audience, but Gould lets them hear his most intimate exploration of spiritual essences, which is not an interpersonal experience.
In the end, they’re both great. Music is all about multiplicity, different voices no one of which has the whole truth (as any counterpoint played by either Hamelin or Gould will tell you); thank Heavens we have both these treasures, including a heart like Mr. Hamelin’s!
when you’ve played every difficulty level there is and nothing is hard anymore: write your own stuff!
never thought i'd hear op 109 quoted in a paganini variations, but there you go
The Schubert was just beautiful... one of my favorite piano works of all!
I can't thank you enough for posting these! Marc-Andre Hamelin does a ton of recitals yet they are relatively hard to find.
You're welcome, remember to share your own findings as well!
it's a paradox some are disillusioned with their playing after hearing him others are fired up with the hope of approaching him and virtually all never will
OH MY GOD YES FINALLY A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF IMAGES 2, PRAISE HAMELIN AND YOU WONDERFUL POSTER
:-D
I got to see this same program- with a different encore- back in November for the Gilmore Keyboard Society. It was arguably even better than this one, although this is transcendent as always.
How courageous..imaginative.. and typical of this unique artist to play a challenging encore of the 1st Feinberg Sonata......characteristic of the greatness of Hamelin.
One of very few great alive.
Thinking of the very varied and unusual repertoire Hamelin recorded.....am in awe: a l l the Scriabine Sonatas, ibid, Medtner, Wolpe, Barber, a l l the Godowsky Chopin etudes, Alkan, just for starters! THE Wigmore Recital unique...and with disarming modesty as person, rare in the PR hyped post WWII era.
I usually don't put things like this - I see several posts below about errors... umm... ok, here it is: "ATTENTION! ATTENTION!" There, you got my attention. Happy? OK, now on to the real comment. This is outstanding. There aren't words good enough to say how good this is. Hamelin is bringing us what these composers heard in their minds and connecting it all today right in front of us. What a treasure. Anyone here to pore over this and find error - record this same program for us and prove you can do better. It's OK that there are there are people to look up to in this world and we have one. As for me I'm going to stop typing and enjoy it!
Nice use of rubato in the Mozart second movement! Beautiful!
An imense artist, everything he plays the way he plays is more beautiful and interesting. As I was listening to the music work for the first time. Hamelin is so unique...
magnifico, estupendo, sem mais palavras....
I love him!
Qué sensibilidad y qué arte y musicalidad la de M.A.Hamelin!!! Todo el concierto , pero la interpretación de la sonata de Schubert es la mejor que he oído. Mi admiración por este pianista , que creo que no es lo suficientemente conocido, es infinita… BRAVO!!! Qué pene que haya en Rusia tanta gente resfriada y tosiendo sin parar…..
A mí también me ha encantado su Schubert!!! 😍😍😍
Watching Hamelin play Mozart is like watching Arnold Schwarzenegger deadlift toothpicks.
Nothing is too easy with Mozart!
A strength renew concert for Moscow's Philhamonia society
Hey, great stuff!
Mozart, Debussy, Schubert, some program!
Canadas best export
After Gould...
Trucker Freedom Convoy now But yeah Gould and Hamelin great.
Pianista excelent
Genius
Is the encore a sonata composed by Samuel Feinberg?
It is! Piano Sonata No.1
A genius
I have a question about ALL videos featuring pianists. Why is it that so much time on all of these videos is devoted to NOT showing what they're doing with their hands? This would not happen with any other soloist, be they violinists, horn players, flutists, cellists etc. Here we are at a moment when a brilliant concert pianist is playing at the peak of the music and we are treated to the shot over top of the piano showing them swaying back and forth with a look of ecstasy on their faces, but NO HANDS in the shot. Now I'm not opposed to the look of ecstasy, but could this not be shown while having their hands in the shot also? Would someone making a video of a violinist playing a concerto take the moment when they are deep into a beautiful cadenza section and cut away to a shot of their feet, or the back of their heads? They may as well if they also make videos of pianists and do not show their hands. If the hands of the pianist are not shown, what's the point in watching the video anyway? You may as well just listen to the CD of the performance. If you go to the trouble of watching the video, especially if you've put out money to buy a performance on Blu-ray, don't you want to SEE what the pianist is doing? There are many shot angles that can be used to capture a performance by a concert pianist that could also show what they are doing with their HANDS! Does anyone out there know why this is? I sure hope it's not the stupidest reason possible - someone did it that way once, and we all have to copy that because THAT'S THE WAY IT'S DONE!
I know how you feel, I've always strived to get a seat so I can see the hands of the pianist, yet I find my self listening mostly with my eyes closed.
there are many who listen to the music and have no interest in the mechanics of the hands etc personally i like to watch both but i play plenty of piano music in the car and enjoy it as much [imagining i'm the pianist of course] :}
Paul Jackson It's the money shot. The industry of classical music is an aesthetic one just like our pop industry. despite much less so than the popular industry this is a truth. Most of the classical community aren't pianists and don't care about hands unlike us pianists. so they go for the money shot all the facial expressions and wobbling about it's what people love - just look at Lang lang it's no coincidence he's the richest pianist alive, has two private jets. The nature of the piano is 'one or the other' unlike instruments that face their audience. Thankfully hamelin is incredible so he doesn't do many of the theatrics.
I wanna see hands!!!
i know what you mean. i was watching a strongman contest and they were doing the squat. instead of showing the lifters performing squats so we could admire the technique and problems or succesess in the lift, they show close ups of struggling faces. i wanna see the lift!!
@@vanguard4065 Lame, who tf watches strongman for fun? Be grateful that we get to witness this man play piano... stop fucking whining.
38:55 Saint saens reference
but the director has understood that it is a piano concert and not a photo shoot? is it so difficult to frame his hands?
I guess it depends on how many angles that hall has and the tech's cinematography skills. When attending live, the best seats are the ones slightly left of piano. That gives an attendee perfect view of the pianist's hands.
excelente pianista brillante pero su reperterio nome gusto mi edad talvez (89 años) no asumen esta nueva musuca Disculpenme uds y el magnifico pianista 😢
Anche i più grandi toppano con Mozart.
In che cosa avrebbe toppato?..dimmi dimmi
Hamelin's Debussy is particularly wonderful. I suppose his ability to speak French helps in this aspect, considering Debussy's music was deeply inspired by the French language itself!
Now, that is some fine supposing right there :-) Where did you hear this?
Well he is from Quebec, so I guess the French speaking bit makes sense.
ibuprofen303 the question regarding Debussy’s music inspired by French language remains.
MAH was born in Verdun, a neighbourhood included in the greater Montreal city, and his native language is french, although in province of Quebec the french language eventually took its own twist and turns over the centuries, just like English, Portages and Spanish did crossing the Atlantic. Nevertheless your comment is interesting, and I do agree that his Debussy is full of poetry as well as clarity, but I have doubts that being a native french Canadian helps. MAH is just one hell of a genus....
You should watch him play Debussy's Feux d'artifice from the second set of preludes.
Plz let me know what the encore is.
Says so in the description, he also tells the audience what it is before playing it.
Hamelin in Russia?! Wow!!!
Seen him in Anversa some years ago. Liszt sonata live with maybe one or two wrong notes, unbelievable.
Listen to Seong Jin Cho's live performance in Finland. There are NO mistakes.
Why do people with a raging cough go to a concert? The sheer disrespect shown to Hamelin, Schubert and the audience by the individual who is recklessly coughing throughout the entire sonata is beyond belief!
35:40
The piano : 🔥
The audience : 😮
M-A Hamelin : 😴
That left hand little finger slip at 35:56... ouch.
Bet you and him were the only ones to notice
OpusTravels Haha, well I watch theese videos religiously, so thank you so much for posting! I also find it fascinating that he didn't stop even for a second after that.
@@xyzpno6847 Congrats on being a pedantic little kid. Smfh
@@jahkneeboi I basically gave him a compliment, idk what's wrong with that.
My God, please stfu you pretentious little twat. I thought you were making a joke at first, but then I realized you were not. Your comments are insane. You must be too, unless it was a joke. And why WOULD he stop after such a completely unnoticeable alleged error at a presto speed in an atonal setting? You obviously just want to brag and pretend you're some brilliant pianist, when in fact that's so not true. You're full of nonsense instead.
This guy can play rings around Yuja and Lang. Only pianist out there who can touch him in the pianistic competition is Garrick Ohlsson. A scandal he's not better known. He should fire his management.
Yuja can certainly play well sometimes, Lang hasn't played well in over a decade. Volodos is the only other guy on this level (even surpassing, in my opinion), although they're very different.
In the grand scheme of things I can't say Ohlsson has moved me more than many many other top pianists.
+MrKlemps...Ohlson the only pianist that...etc...?Leif Ove Andsnes to whom Hamelin turned for 2 piano and 4 hands recitals is the the only one on a par ..
Good point, TPC! Perhaps twenty years ago, I was listening to a performance of the Grieg Concerto on the radio without knowing the performer and thought something like "This guy has fantastic chops to be able to play all the notes and make them clear and audible." I had not previously heard of Lief O-A before this, and am so happy that his career really took off.
MrKlemps
Maestro Leif Ove Andsnes' recording of the complete Rachmaninov Concerti is a landmark .Please take note that he has traveled the world with his 'Beethoven Journey" ,a project that took a few years,performing and conducting Beethoven's complete Pianoconcerti and Choral Fantasy countless times establishing himself hereby as a profound Beethoven interpreter. Mr.Andsnes,Mr.Hamelin and Mr.Volodos are at present the only true paragons of the piano immediately followed by Trifonov and a few other formidable talents.www.andsnes.com/journey
You should chuck Zimerman in there as well.