Hamelin plays Alkan Symphonie Finale Presto

[@tomekkobialka]

Again, good performance by Hamelin but...THAT CAMERA HAS GOT AMAZING SOUND QUALITY! O_o

[@Medtszkowski]

Wow it’s the mereaux guy

[@moazmokamoke]

@@Medtszkowski u did reply to a 12 years old comment

[@therealransu]

@@Medtszkowskiwhyd this get a ratio... 😢

[@aakarshitsingh1535]

This is perfection I really love hamelins interpretation

[@s1earle]

Rubbish not near perfection in simply playing the motions of speed with misplaced accents, probably because of his misplaced technique,,,

[@1980NewWave]

HOW THE HELL DOES HE DO THAT I would practically give up everything I own to be able to play like he does

[@carryfreak5059]

That’s exactly what you would have to do

[@itsshrimp91]

That's what Hamelin did. 🥲

[@Jim341046]

This is brilliant. I'd love to see this guy live.

[@oucutie1]

Hamelin/Alkan. Whoa! ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? You sir, are a heck of a technician and after hearing your Un Sospiro can rightly say you are a wonderful musician! At your level? You win. You have a new fan. I salute you!!!!

[@s1earle]

Don't salute him because he is sometimes the lacking cause.

[@ultracoolhomies]

The video is in great quality, thanks.

[@EmuwuNora]

Music is never useless, if you think the music itself is boring, look at that technique, it's an unique display of great virtuoso skills..

[@EntelSidious_gamzeylmz]

op 39 is a masterpiece musically lmao just because its hard doesn't mean that was the goal, thats just a way to tell the story

[@bloba6969]

hamelin is one of the piano gods

[@zaxtrax]

@utubuser10 I actually saw him a few days after you in Greensboro, NC. I also had the good fortune to be part of a group who went for dinner with him afterwards. It turns out that not only is he a phenomenal musician, but he's also a really nice guy.

[@mfed42]

dear lord 1:28. what an amazing dynamic change.

[@lucaslorentz]

1:28

[@floofers]

I love this Alkan piece; nice to see another performance of it on YT. My favourite is "Alkanian's" versions, esp as he is an amateur. Marc-A H plays it more nicely up to 2 mins, but when those descending arpeggios come in at 2.02, I think Alkanian plays it better - more clearly, because it's ever slightly more slow.

[@franciscojesusmoctezumacua4692]

¡Hermosisima e impresionante sinfonía de Alkan! Muy muy virtuosa y llena de dificultades técnicas. !Me encanta!

[@1980NewWave]

@geneimperfect - no doubt there were sacrifices on his part, but don't forget that this is his profession. Just as you or I get up every day and go to work in an office (or wherever), he gets up and practices piano. And I think in Hamelin's case, it's equal parts natural talent and hard work. 99% of people, even if they practice 15 hours a day for years, could probably never play like Hamelin does.

[@hagfish_]

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."

[@Jamric-gr8gr]

Alkan everyday is good

[@mikejr41387]

i met marc the other night in NYC, very nice guy!

[@gromoglas77]

Excellent! Thank for posting!

[@Jim341046]

Me too! - I'm just sorry I didn't know about him sooner. A living legend. Not many of those around.

[@DiIdoBaggins]

I guess he's pretty good.

[@Jim341046]

The reason he likes Alkan is because everything else is too easy.

[@blacksmithpiano]

@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus ok

[@aakarshitsingh1535]

Lol

[@qalaphyll]

@@aakarshitsingh1535 bhai

[@aakarshitsingh1535]

@@qalaphyll Okay bhai

[@qalaphyll]

@@aakarshitsingh1535 no bhai it is not ok, nothing is ok and nothing will ever be ok bhai

[@LetTheMusicFlow1]

yes it is. I was surprised too, at first. then I realized, who could play with that technique? HAMELIN.

[@OverFjell]

I guess they don't call Hamelin a supervirtuoso for nothing, this is incredible o_O

[@zaxtrax]

@utubuser10 No, he didn't really go into it. One thing I never knew is that he never studied with anyone really famous nor went to any big conservatory. So he's really sort of an anomaly. I did mention to him that his playing inspired me to want to practice more. He told me that he's happy to hear that, since a lot of people tell him his playing makes them want to give up the instrument, which he finds sad.

[@max-sleepy]

unbelievable clarity!

[@TheoneParky]

Phenomenal technicality

[@s1earle]

But sloppy in his perfection.

[@f1f1s]

@Mozartstavanger Yes, only you. =) Alkan appreciated Beethoven and sometimes his pieces are so classical, even hardly romantic, but this happened not too often. I made a great mistake - after this performance, while looking how "easilly Hamelin pwns this piece", I dared to download the score and start learning. Naive - a vain attempt to approach the great virtuoso... Op. 39 No. 7 rapes me again and again!

[@impossimadnescyAJ]

So, in your opinion, his practice is... OVER 9000!

[@joernbroeker]

very musical playing not too "dead" and perfect the little mistakes keep it alive very good interpretation

[@ultracoolhomies]

I love how he gets tiny at 1:06

[@aakarshitsingh1535]

1:06

[@MrFartyman44]

Why wont he record the dang etudes?!

[@Burntshmallow]

Maybe he can't... =s

[@MrFartyman44]

I just want to hear Hamelin play the op 35 :(

[@OrangeSodaKing]

MrFartyman44 Probably because he's constantly asked to record other things by his label, as well as all the performances he does. I'm sure there's more he'd like to play for sure. Another complete recording of the Op. 35 is due, though.

[@Burntshmallow]

이한얼 Do you have any evidence to back that up?

[@Kirb-n4r]

It's his interview.

[@brianandrewleahy1]

@SevenCircles yet the elation one feels when one is on stage and has the audience in the palm of their hand is the most euphoric feeling i know. No drug, alcohol, anything compares with it. Even the great clarinet player Artie Shaw, who was married 8 times to BEAUTIFUL women, said, "it's better than sex."

[@OldRabit]

Simply brilliant!

[@terryregnar]

GODLIKE CONTRIBUTION !!! THIS IS GRIM

[@oceans80]

I'd say Hamelin lacks the "cheese" factor of Lang Lang ;-) MAH is light years better.

[@hermanshermits124124]

@OrangeSodaKing Lol because of your pianoworld signature I am here, never heard of Alkan before hahahha

[@quesadiya]

wow how complicated and beautifulit is!

[@carmen6169]

La exelencia 🙏💞🇮🇷. 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋❤️😍🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@sevencircles1638]

@brianCIM Correct, I have performed on National TV here in Sweden. An amazing experience. Only very few new soloists make it these days though. I wonder how many debutalbums by young classical pianists that were released during 2009? Propably very few.

[@lordtains]

yeah from 2 minutes up he puts more emotion into it

[@edtskyline]

#Amazing !! Thank for sharing! #Piano

[@PeterDobbinga]

This guy is talented! :-)

[@bloba6969]

I know ! He should try to do competitions, he would surely win

[@MaScalo4508]

@@bloba6969 Who do you think this guy is?? Try and search his name on the internet! After you do that, let’s see if he still needs competitions!

[@dzordzszs]

​@@MaScalo4508pretty sure he was joking

[@MaScalo4508]

@@dzordzszs I read this comment after 6 months and I actually wonder how I didn’t understand the joke immediately 😆

[@brianandrewleahy1]

@mikejr41387 yes he is. I was terrified to talk to him and sign my program. I just don't do those kind of things. He was so warm and humble when i told him how much I admired his championing of neglected composers. Just a really sweet guy. I always think pianists personalities come out in their playing. Actually i saw him in NY 3 times and as always was so humble and easy-going. Very inspirational pianist. BUT, I am working on the Alkan concerto now and then i think "why bother". he humbled ME!

[@giuseppe76761]

immenso hamelin

[@sergio6357]

He is real boss

[@Jamric-gr8gr]

Injung

[@sergio6357]

린정

[@GalaDiya]

Omg...

[@FranzLisztian]

@f1f1s It's very baroque at times too

[@Medtszkowski]

Alkan was a genius

[@johnodonnell2988]

Yup

[@Lukecash12]

beautiful piece though, and a good interpretation.

[@jannis11]

nice

[@geneimperfect]

@1980NewWave You do realize how much the man HAS given up in order to be able to play like that... You literally give your life to play like he does.

[@Fon92i]

the sound is very good for a camrecorder...

[@ciliaspippi]

@Jim341046 Although, I do not think he plays Alkan becayse it is only difficult. It is beautiful music both technically, harmonically, and musically.

[@Prometeur]

Only Hamelin man

[@muslit]

@OrangeSodaKing by what i've heard and seen on youtube, i couldn't imagine it. and the number '111' doesn't refer to 111 sonatas.

[@anonymousQ45]

i agree with you but he works extremely hard.

[@mcmilld1]

Anyone know when and where this video was taped, and also what else was on the program? Is there more video from this concert?

[@Malaka57]

@1980NewWave ... good deal, you give up everything you own, then play like that, and earn enough to get everything back ...;-) good trick... I see your point. I think he just takes a deep breath and like the martial arts wizzes, he slows the world down...

[@LongDriveChamp03]

I also agree with you that Hamelin is truly an amazing pianist. But what you're watching is most likely the culmination of hours upon hours of relentless practicing as well a lifetime of playing the piano.

[@MegaPianogenius]

at 16 he was playing transcendental liszt etudes by sight he has a natural talent unbelievable memory and it is a gift no more no less if others had it they would all be pianists

[@기민석-n4k]

역시 갓믈랭

[@ShabatyDoob]

@s1earle please don't be so harsh. i have seen many amazing "dreamers" at the National Piano Competition in Washington D.C.

[@ilwmb]

@OrangeSodaKing he doesnt, just read some of his interviews. ("naturally lazy", "u'd be suprised how little time i spend on the piano".... etc..)

[@Vesivian]

@spwvu If you call it a song than you are surely mistaken. :)

[@한양대바라기-p5j]

지린다....

[@matthewsouthwell]

@Frozentoes1 better than Volodos' tonal abilities?

[@sevencircles1638]

@brianCIM Correct, if you haven´t won any major international competition or have great contacts then chances are that you won´t get a record deal as a solo pianist these days. Piracy is a huge problem for classical music as well.

[@robert-skibelo]

Was this video obtained legally? With Hamelin's knowledge and consent?

[@charles-valentinalkan4432]

Yup, I had to get it out on the keyboard. Can't help that I was so good a pianist even Liszt was nervous to play for me and said I have the finest technique he ever saw. ;) ;) This Hamelin guy is ridiculously good, by the way. ;) ;)

[@HilbertXVI]

Charles-Valentin Alkan Liszt was never nervous lol

[@nimrodshefer3649]

@@HilbertXVI hwo do you both know about what lizst felt- stop say things you dont sure about

[@katebloggs8243]

@@nimrodshefer3649Because Liszt said it out loud and people recorded it in their journals/diaries, as did Delacroix. Do you think that anything you are ignorant of (who can know Everything!) never happened?!?!

[@thegreatapologist]

@Jim341046 ?? So many list pieces are harder. They just don't seem so because so many people play them.

[@MegaPianogenius]

actually no, alkan pieces are harder liszt said so

[@HilbertXVI]

sam333 Because Liszt wasn't an arrogant fuck

[@MegaPianogenius]

what and alkan was?

[@dr.monkey4898]

sam333 liszt was really nice to other composers and pianists. According to other pianists of their time liszt was the god of technique but alkan could play not as difficult pieces with much more emotion than liszt could. This is really hard but liszt wrote harder pieces, such as the la clochette fantasy. Hope this helps

[@Svit.S]

when they first "met" (they were both preforming) Alkan thought that he appeared like a little kid on the piano compared to Liszt. Liszt though, said that Alkan's technique was better. That doesn't really mean that Liszt said "all his pieces are harder than mine, even the ones I didn't write yet" -.-

[@bifeldman]

I’m jealous.

[@perry1559]

The only one who could exceed the visceral excitement of Hamelin was Raymond Lewenthal. (and maybe Ogden on a good day)

[@MegaPianogenius]

not at all hamelin is better than both

[@zkool5]

Man, this piece is too hard for him.

[@s1earle]

True, he lacks technique in perfecting his technical achievements.

[@davidscott7252]

Hamelin is better than LANG LANG but lacks the glamour factor

[@brianandrewleahy1]

@spwvu Sad as it is, in today's most successful performers i must disagree. Luck is a huge part of it. I know pianists who are AMAZING and they don't get lucrative recording contracts like Hamelin, Kissin, or Volodos. I do agree with your opinion on this performance and respect his courage to play neglected repertoire. I am sure he could play the Rach 3 at the drop of a hat, but he chose a different path and the world is better for that. But talent=sucess. NO. two words. Clang Clang

[@Jim341046]

I agree, but then who else could be?

[@s1earle]

I like the lack of pianist sway and dreaming - just look at Jorge Bolet, he proves that playing is in the fingers not the face...I once saw a pianist sway too much in performance and fall off the seat, we all laughed, let that be a lesson to all "dreamers".

[@joeya6795]

If he started swaying and throwing in histrionics, he wouldn't be able to play at this tempo with such controlled fury. Not that all the histrionics fits his character anyway, based on our observations.

[@s1earle]

@@joeya6795 Yes, Mr Hamelin shows off all his speed, agility and technique however lacks what he has missed say from several others, say Egon Petri and even Raymond Lewenthal but alas rhe best performance is that o.f Michael Ponti.

[@jaanlepnurm]

As far as piano playing goes this is definitely in the highest 0.00... percentiles. The amount of people who could do this beginning to end, not faulting once, is negligibly small. In short: I fkn quit 😂

[@JalalSela]

Are you sure that this is Marc André Hamelin? He sounds like him... but dosn't look like him (maybe it's the glasses), anyway... Great Piece, Great Pianist, Thanks for the video... 5 stars

[@miguelangelvaldezfarias]

I wanna play like him.........but I'd like to be more emotive....

[@thegreatapologist]

@spwvu Give him a brake! He's a college student! Give him time!

[@choi0909]

he's touches make a few dull piano sounds... but i agree many peoples that he's mad movement of fingers he can plays anything

[@datrumart]

haha da pilkah getz da trick

[@Elopierek]

:)

[@Jim341046]

Tear this piano up and smoke strips of it on the wall...

[@JPConnolly2]

@Mozartstavanger More Mendelssohnian for me...

[@Lukecash12]

@geneimperfect I gave my life to play less well than he does :)

[@davealkan]

Yes, as always with Hamelin, amazing technique. I always criticise Hamelin for going too fast, but I don't think his overall tempo here is. But it sounds as if he's doing everything possible at cadence points, rests and anywhere where there is the tiniest relenting in the music, to shave off the seconds, which, for me, doesn't make for a successful piece of MUSIC!

[@youbelle3437]

souverän

[@fritocheeto]

>Lukecash12 (1 month ago) >I admire his technical and tonal touch, but his dynamics are, let's say...monotonous. ??? From pearly to huge...what are you talking about?

[@s1earle]

Agree, he should perform even technical renditions.

[@ParStenberg]

HAHAHAHAHAHA DA MART

[@DanielCharry1025]

@Jim341046 Liszt= eaten bread.

[@luableah7615]

Vincenzo did a little better in my opinion..... but it is also the recording as well

[@brianandrewleahy1]

Amadeus-"oh how shall one say herr direktor? too many notes. just cut a few and it will be perfect- which did you have in mind your majesty? uh awwnapson, there are as many as required, neither more or less.

[@Yollaboe1993]

Awesome! [but I pity the piano.]

[@LetTheMusicFlow1]

well theres always Godowsky, Sorabji......

[@theshitheads9419]

How the fuck is that possible

[@nugul101]

손가락이 ,,

[@mcbainst]

filmed with a potato

[@muslit]

@Jim341046 actually, two simple notes would be difficult for hamelin. they would expose his lack of temperament more than a thousand notes would.

[@HilbertXVI]

muslit Lmao

[@Lukecash12]

I admire his technical and tonal touch, but his dynamics are, let's say...monotonous.

[@muslit]

@Jim341046 in fact. if he played a beethoven sonata it would sound terrible.

[@katebloggs8243]

I have heard him play numerous Beethoven sonatas, as astoundingly as I have ever heard them played. (And I have heard many pianists play Beethoven, some playing every single sonata.) Classical music should expand you as a human soul, not turn you into yet another soulless prig who listens to classical music to be "better" than others.... You are a type straight from Central Casting and the world is littered with others just like you. Your responses - you all as a type - could be a diagnosis in psychology textbooks, they are that consistent. It's not too late for you, though!