Hamelin plays Paul de Schlözer - Etude in A flat, Op.1 No.2

[@teodorb.p.composer]

No pianist can amaze me as much as Hamelin!

[@shilloshillos]

Mr. Hamelin has a natural talent, no amount of practicing can produce this supple ease of technique. I mean his technical equipment rises way and above beyond that of most other international concert pianists. Maestro Katsaris who himself has similar pianistic facility is full of admiration and praise for mr. Hamelin.

[@Hitherto90]

I've had a montra for years now that if you want to hear a piece of music played well, you should probably listen to Marc-André Hamelin.

[@pushkinthegreat]

Hamelin lacks technique compared to even the young Claudio Arrau. Cortot, Hofmann, Grunfeld, Rachmaninoff, Lhevinne, and many others have a much better technique then him.

[@Hitherto90]

@@pushkinthegreat Just because YOU don't like him that much doesn't mean we're incorrect in our praise of him.

[@MarcDozier2954]

Wow. Amazing! The composer would kiss Marc after this amazing performance of his Etude.

[@chidlers99]

This is a beastly hard piece. Hamelin makes it look so easy ... the mark of a great artist. I can't imagine what it would feel like to play this piece after an exhausting and difficult recital.

[@thomgeo8073]

The most delicate sound from magic fingers, Fantastic!!!

[@rodsalvador3608]

This is insane for an encore!

[@brandonmacey964]

Bravo, more hidden gems of repertoire

[@opusposthumous]

Interesting to note that neither Hamelin nor Hough believe the story that these were in fact written by Moszkowski

[@ga199337]

Bravo Maestro Hamelin ! Thank you very much !

[@synovium]

Mr. Hamelin's fingers move like butter. He does not look like he is even out of breath. So effortlessly his fingers trickle across the keyboard

[@h.p.734]

He plays it so effortlessly!

[@右先生-o6o]

I love Hamelin！

[@mibemolmineur15-3]

Especially Alkan in his performance👍👍👍

[@JJTownley_Classical-Composer]

Sounds almost identical to Moszkowski. I wouldn't be surprised if the story of him losing it to Schlözer in a card game is true. I mean after all, what else has Schlözer written that is regularly played?

[@sfsphil]

Really great...thank you for uploading this!

[@MartinGilmour]

this were in fact written by Moszkowski, who lost the manuscript to de Schlözer in a card game, who published them as his own works.

[@tedpiano]

Crazy Op. 1 story... Either way, great music!

[@nymbledigitz8453]

OMG That's amazing! How do you know this historical detail/intrigue? How can this be verified?

[@niccolopaganini4268]

@@nymbledigitz8453 It's not really verified, but those 2 etudes sound a lot like Moszkowski and it's ONLY opus published by de Schlozer, so it kinda makes you think

[@adrianwright8685]

If true and if other people knew then wouldn't Schlozer have looked rather silly and selfish publishing as his own? And if no-one else knew how come we do?

[@유경민Claire]

❤❤❤

[@classicfan4683]

Eine harmlose Liebenswürdigkeit meisterhaft gespielt!

[@chidlers99]

Incredible!

[@terryregnar]

TOMPILK! We don't see you on dasdc anymore.. Thanks for the upload, great stuff!

[@ianlowery6014]

The standard against which performances of this piece are judged is the 1933 performance by Eileen Joyce kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWi6ln-pmMuSpqM She had to contend with critics who did not thing much of British performers (she was Australian) and they snubbed her because she was a fashion display when she came on stage. She is SERIOUSLY underrated. She was as popular as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn during WW2. Her technical proficiency can be gauged by the above performance, but besides being able to play very fast, she had precise tempo, the notes were even, touch was constant, and she was able to inject nuances.She had a level of technical expertise which, coupled with her musical intelligence, nuances and phrasing place her among the greats. One famous German critic after her concert with the Berlin Philharmonic compared her with Clara Shumann and other greats. A well known critic in the USA said she was the greatest unknown pianist there had been. It is worth taking a close look at Eileen Joyce on youtube, especially the Mozart sonatas.

[@davidmccourt6139]

So much this. The benchmark in nearly everything she recorded, nearly all of which is available for free on KZbin.

[@АлександрЖихор-н7п]

Гениально ахрененно ваще!!!

[@RoellWestrik]

Dutch pianist Wibi Soerjadi has the same ability.. Just picks up a book, looks at it a little bit and plays the whole piece by heart. Just amazing, the talent and abilities some people have.

[@SihyeonChoe]

Brilliant!!

[@pinocesi8402]

❤️🎹

[@madlovba3]

Wonderful! Where did you get the professional video?

[@zabuzato]

you should have met Vidusso... back in the time, he could open a book, read it once, close it and play the whole piece by heart

[@MegaPianogenius]

i can play anything after listening to it the first time, actually while listening to this a split second after i am playing it

[@vetlerradio]

Prove it.

[@futureshock7425]

I hear echoes of Chopin revolutionary etude

[@henrytedds5585]

He does the end slightly differently than the sheet music..... But ah we'll this is still an incredible performance

[@Zdrange03]

I have 2 versions of the sheet music with different ending in the last 3 chords. Hamelin plays one of these two.

[@johannesbrahms4237]

listen to Eileen Joyce!!!

[@ChaseEverettOfficial]

Sounds like the love child of Rachmaninoff and Chopin.

[@matthewhammans4365]

Mozkowski

[@ChaseEverettOfficial]

@@matthewhammans4365 thanks! I need to expand my repertoire.

[@francispott8386]

The card game story is surely bunkum - I know of now verifiable source for it and the piece is infinitely harder and more sophisticated in its demands than anything dreamt up by Moszkowski

[@chrisnord1266]

marc hamelin plays some piece by alkan if somebody told me you will never be agood piano player unless you play this .i never would have started playing .he makes everything look easy

[@jedrzejsteszewski6694]

All true. This piece is a singing MONSTER.

[@sudipkumarroy3790]

Sounds like impressionistic chopin.

[@epicaunleashed8764]

Are you Bengali?

[@Move4LessUK]

Err....

[@Swelterful]

nice - but not nearly as elegant, delicate and smooth as Stephen Hough's performance.

[@Mr.Dziej72]

It's not really fair to compare a live performance captured on video, to a studio-made recording.

[@Swelterful]

Well, of course you're right. I haven't considered the obvious.

[@bobschaaf2549]

Stand your ground! Hough's performance is witty and whistle-clean, and actually shows some thought put into the pedaling.

[@Henry-lb9fg]

Swelterful have you heard Jorge Bolet s one? Even better than Hough ! Having said that, Hamelin s playing is still the best to me ...

[@francispott8386]

I have heard Hamelin rise to even higher levels than this in the same piece at other recitals. It needs to be borne in mind that this is not merely a concert performance, but an encore at the end of a mammoth programme - most of us would be on our faces. Frankly I think it's ridiculous to imply that Hamelin gives no thought to the pedalling, though. It's also questionable whether this piece *needs* 'wit'. One could argue that treating it with greater seriousness pays it the compliment it deserves.

[@grigorpetrov8006]

It's too easy for him. He still needs to hear the inner sense of the music. He plays it just like an etude rather than a real piece of music finely chiseled and appropriately ardorous.