Hamelin plays Feinberg Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 3

[@f1f1s]

The 3rd pard is a mind-boggling amalgamation with phenomenally complex references to Chopin’s sonata spoken in the anxiety-driven language of Stanchinsky, multiplied by the multi-layered structure of Medtner’s finest works. Feinberg is so criminally underrated because we, as human beings, might lack the intelligence to comprehend the scope of this work.

[@steveegallo3384]

Speak for yourself.....Even so, Well-Said! BRAVO from Acapulco!

[@finels]

IMHO one of the best live concert performances in recorded history - following along with a score makes one realise the superhuman level of playing, and above all, Hamelin is not just fighting through the avalanche of notes but gives an EXTREMELY compelling and moving interpretation!

[@A-432-Zone]

Have never heard of this pianist (nor composer!) till today, but it was a wonderful introduction to both artists. I came here after seeing Fienber's 3rd sonata on a list of some of the most difficult piano pieces.

[@SCRIABINIST]

The finale is eargasmic

[@teodorb.p.composer]

One of the best piano pieces ever. And played by the greatest pianist ever. I have no words to describe the beauty and epicness of this.

[@Damian_Theodoridis]

I think cziffra is better than Hamelin but whatever

[@teodorb.p.composer]

@@Damian_Theodoridis Hamelin has way better repertoir, there is lot of Medtner, Alkan, Godowsky, Fienberg - all the forgotten masters! And actually, Hamelin's playing is so soft, tender and musical great, there is nobody like Hamelin, yeah Cziffra is one of the greatest pianist in the world, and I admire his playing and his flawless technique, but still, it's not the same. In Hamelin's playing there is something magical, transcendental and unseen (in the terms of technique and musicality), which is so remarkable!

[@samueltaylor9935]

@@Damian_Theodoridis nah man, Hamelin is that guy. Don’t let nostalgia of the past blind you

[@Damian_Theodoridis]

@@samueltaylor9935 Hamelin isn’t very good imo. He barely has any emotion and just speed-runs through things.

[@steveegallo3384]

@@teodorb.p.composer -- You are Absolutely Correct......It's a Colossus......BRAVO from Acapulco!

[@globalc3849]

Monumental epic achievement. Hats off to this genius.

[@richardwagnerian8845]

This sonata is the source of solidarity for me living alone in the pandemic. Such yearning, such elan & such metamorphism!

[@bloba6969]

the last movement sounds like a 15 minute coda

[@pecfexfextus4437]

you sound like a 15 minute coda

[@bloba6969]

@michael.david.davison the intensity not the structure

[@DynastieArtistique]

@michael.david.davison I know, that comment was ridiculous

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@bloba6969 still not cadenza/coda sounding

[@jackcurley1591]

@@DynastieArtistique you aren’t wrong though 😂 the final movement of this sonata is imbued with such ridiculous counterpoint, emotion, and technical challenge! It’s a real triumph of the late-romantic repertoire

[@unnamed_boi]

epiccc this footage is finally on youtube this recording is always one of my favorite interps of this amazing sonata

[@bloba6969]

feinberg is too underrated

[@camilledelorme2777]

Damn you're right !

[@emilyhutjes]

I have put this concerto on Face-Book for everyone to enjoy Mr. Hamelin's brilliant performance.🌷🌷🌷

[@usedpianocenter7562]

This is an incredible performance of a magnificent piece. Marc, as always, it truly staggering in his musicality and incredible expression!

[@GoldenBiba]

This is my favorite music.Thank you so much for sharing this. 20:38 , it is the most beautiful melody i have ever listened in my life.

[@jacquesmeibergen]

Dear listener you should try also Nicolai Medtner’s Piano sonate opus 25 no2 ‘Night Wind’ played by Dina Parakhina,…you find it also by YouYube

[@PieInTheSky9]

Thanks so much, can't believe I can actually watch him play this now!

[@tomyoarrete3060]

juste incroyable, comment retenir une partition si complexe. Un musicien comme il en existe peu.

[@robertwarwick3294]

Thank you so much for uploading this precious and incredible performance . After 25 years of going to Marc's concerts, I'm still in awe of his transcendental gifts. I know a lot of piano music and I can't think of any other piece that is as relentlessly dark and hopeless as this sonata. How prophetic he's playing this in Russia before the invasion of the Ukraine. Great work and extrodinary performance, you're generous to share it.

[@Bobowobo]

Thank you for this!!!!

[@aakarshitsingh1535]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!! I had been searching for this for quite a while.

[@Fred_DQ]

This work is undoubtedly marvelous, but unfortunately buried because it's too difficult for most pianists to play We need other "Hamelins"…

[@AndreaCalligarisMusic]

The writing is very "pianistic" so, once you've deciphered the impossible-looking score, there are definitely tons of pianists that can approach these pieces because the fingering makes sense, so to say. And there are pianists that can play even better (we're talking nuances, of course), like those of the two canonical CDs with all the sonatas. Still, big appreciation to Hamelin who's contributing to make this music less unknown. Also consider that not everyone likes this type of music, and it's not a surprise: this sonata in particular is hell in music form, in a good sense for me, but not for everyone.

[@ciararespect4296]

​@@AndreaCalligarisMusicHamelin is best pianist period. Not saying all his repertoire is the ultimate in perfection but as an all rounder with his repertoire he's best pianist ever The Cds Are studio played so faults taken out whereas this Is live

[@gary100dm]

and under represented in the repertoire, Medtner.

[@gary100dm]

Also reminds me of Scriabin.

[@ZBEP_PUSS]

​@@AndreaCalligarisMusic holy shit yes, so true.

[@scriabinismydog2439]

Awesome.

[@andrewjankowski7137]

awesome indeed; but when all is said and done, words fall away and become redundant. either one is drawn in to this music - or not

[@imdarealani]

16:45 One of the most demented fugues ever written.

[@forta7353]

It requires 200iq minimum to grasp 🤣

[@jacquesmeibergen]

Never heard pianomusic from this composer before,… incredible interesting very Scriabin like,…which I like very much! And preformed by M.A.Hamelin who can play everything! The best there is in the world! Wow…unbelievable this music of Samuel Feinberg‼️

[@A-432-Zone]

This is my first time as well! (To both the pianist and the composer). I also noticed some Paul Hindemith elements to this piece. - _The A4432-Zone_

[@dannymillington3015]

Absolutely jaw-dropping! If large and angry insects could make music by running over a keyboard, this would be the sound produced in parts of the third movement. What was Feinberg’s inspiration to write such music? Massive respect to Hamelin for the live performance. I love and fear it!

[@ciararespect4296]

Scriabin insect sonata 10?

[@patricknyman727]

I believe I read somewhere that Feinberg took the battle of Stalingrad as inspiration, especially for the third movement.

[@ИванБушин-з4й]

Я думаю эта Соната сочинена под впечатлением от Первой Мировой войны и революционных потрясений. Она и написана то в 1916 году. Самуил Евгеньевич был на фронте, но заболев брюшным тифом был демобилизован. Поэтому скорее всего этим трудом он изобразил все тяготы и ужасы того периода. Ну только представьте.

[@ianmoore5502]

21:24 imo this rivals the most passionate passages in all piano literature

[@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner]

12:36 and 21:24 are my favorite parts.

[@redeemerofcasuality1722]

Hamelin left humanity behind

[@A-432-Zone]

He now exists ONLY in the Hamelin Zone. The A-432 Zone is compelled to do a pitch-conversion of this entire performance!

[@MrLULE]

16:45 Fugue 19:00 Beat drop

[@aloziecnwachukwu1515]

That Last MOVEMENT!!!!! WOW!!!

[@emilyhutjes]

Thank you or this video Luis Hernández. Good sound, good filming and a brilliant Mr. Hamelin. 🌷🌷🌷(Holland)

[@Calagat]

The 2nd movement is my all time favourite Feinberg up there with Roslavets 1915 prelude which comes 1st. The 3rd movements has moments of brilliance however holistically loses its way with the meandering 2nd subject.The impetuoso and the final recapriculation of the fugue is amazing....Saying all this Ive graduated on to his 10th sonata which has the most amazing and powerful maestoso ever.

[@DynastieArtistique]

I don’t understand what your problem with the third movement is. I too love the second to death but if you really study and listen to the third movement with intent you will see it follows a complete linear path from the first two movements, both emotionally and thematically

[@steveegallo3384]

Wondrous! Impossible! BRAVO from Acapulco!

[@steveegallo3384]

Lots of wondrous Scryabin echoes in Funeral March......

[@ianmoore5502]

19:00 just start crying, its okay

[@beethovenberlioz]

Che bello

[@ciararespect4296]

Feinberg actually uses a lot of the same devices in his other sonatas I think he's not popular not just because of difficulty but because no real tune. 5:51 similar to second sonata and other parts similar to his first one

[@kx3kx3]

Beethoven has left the room!

[@ciararespect4296]

😂​@@kx3kx3

[@tyufg1]

メトネルのポリフォニーの複雑さには及ばないことをフェインベルクは自覚している ただメトネルが古く感じられる程の斬新で洗練された響きは注目に値します 恐るべき曲

[@ametade]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@franciscovidalsorde3364]

hauria'm d'escoltar una mica menys a Bach i els de la segona divisió, així podria'm descobrir meravelles com Hamelin interpretant Feinberg. Recordo un programa que es deia: Los raros, alli vaig aprendre a mirar, vaja, escoltar altres. Escoltar Bach pot ser excloient, però es fàcil creure que l'hauria'm d'escoltar més. Bé, que qui vulgui faci el que li sembli correcte, a mi em sembla vegades que no fer el correcte és el que més m'agrada.

[@jannis11]

NoiCe

[@thomashattey8037]

Fascinating to listen to and Nalyze. Should be better known.

[@tainokreb5200]

15:27 hehe

[@AndreaCalligarisMusic]

He has all the rights to be getting old XD

[@Scriabin_fan]

7:00 , 9:29

[@Xyriak]

19:00

[@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner]

12:37

[@handledav]

ham

[@marmalade8344]

Scriabin if he wasn't playing around

[@radovanlorkovic3562]

In Skrjabins Schatten?

[@ciararespect4296]

Best classical pianist ever born even 7:24 struggling to get his right hand over the left

[@pianisthenics]

Actually the best pianist ever.

[@ciararespect4296]

@@pianisthenics I don't think he can play jazz like Oscar Peterson or Tatum but ive never heard him try

[@pianisthenics]

@@ciararespect4296 he still could play and improvise in jazz idioms better than those 2 playing classical. So overall he’s the best ever.

[@charles-valentinalkan5681]

@@pianisthenics that's bs lmao. Hamelin as the best ever? You must have a bad taste if you think he's the best. Names like Rachmaninoff, Lhevinne, Hofmann, Cortot, Gilels, Richter say nothing to you? Maybe get new ears because Hamelin is definitely not the best.

[@markfowlermusic]

@@charles-valentinalkan5681his technique is superior to any of those names, musically I agree with you though.

[@Whatismusic123]

why would such a great pianist play a piece composed with such incredible incompetency?

[@thenotsookayguy]

Cause they liked it.

[@forta7353]

Big words from someone composing whatever bullshit is on your channel 😆

[@DynastieArtistique]

This composition is far greater than your mental capacity, i understand why you dislike it. This sonata is arguably the greatest sonata of the 20th century sorry

[@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner]

You’re on every video I listen to.

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner get used to it, he’s a troll who makes it his goal to annoy as many people as possible

[@Janaceks_Dad]

Hamelin is a tremendous pianist, but this music seems to have no focus, a trait it shares with Scriabin, who also wrote lots of rubbish, with the exception of a few of the smaller works and the Sonata-Fantasy no 2. But the acoustics of this hall are fantastic, not abrasive captured in beautiful sound...how is it possible to even play a score like this from memory?

[@Arctales21]

L take

[@Janaceks_Dad]

I'm blown away by the acoustics/sound of this hall

[@kristianjohansson8912]

How different our conception of this piece is. For me it contains the most profound expression of feelings to be written after Beethoven. And yes, I am including Chopin and Scriabin in that comparison. No other pianist apart from Hamelin manages to bring it to life so vividly.

[@Whatismusic123]

To compare Scriabin against Feinberg is like comparing treasure with trash, Scriabin wrote no rubbish, he is not the greatest composer to have ever lived without reason.

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@Whatismusic123I hope you’re aware that both Scriabin and Feinberg would of died from laughter reading this comment

[@brianbernstein3826]

Love Hamelin, and that he helps promote lesser known works… But I’m sorry. I don’t like this sonata whatsoever

[@DynastieArtistique]

Well it’s one of the greatest sonatas ever written and arguably the greatest sonata of the 20th century (if the Night Wind hadn’t been written). I suggest you listen to it repeatedly with a score in order to begin grasping how great of a masterpiece this sonata is

[@brianbernstein3826]

@@DynastieArtistique Or you could learn that not everyone is going to agree with your opinion of this piece. Best get on that then.

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@brianbernstein3826I’ve already learned that, you could learn that it’s ok to share your opinion with people

[@brianbernstein3826]

​@@DynastieArtistique You wrote: "I suggest you go listen to it with a score" - How do know you I haven't? "Slowly, until you begin to grasp" = calling me stupid, for not sharing your view of the piece.

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@brianbernstein3826 since when did not grasping a piece on your first few listens make you stupid? Damn you must not know how music works. I forced myself to listen to Medtner works until I felt comfortable with him and now I adore him. I encourage you have an open mind. I know for a FACT that this piece is greatness, idc about objectivity in this case. I’m welcome to share my opinion on that

[@pjimenez08]

He should probably stick to playing more interesting pieces.

[@GUILLOM]

Kid

[@bloba6969]

excrutiatingly unbased

[@franksmith541]

You should probably stay quiet.

[@charles-valentinalkan5681]

@@franksmith541 should he though? Who are you to say what he should do, huh? Mister Smartass? Maybe you should develop a taste to appreciate real art and not garbage like this sonata?

[@ConcordMass]

I really can't help but wonder... why did you have to type those nine words when you could've said nothing at all and kept that thought to yourself?