Marc-André Hamelin - Medtner Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor + Encores - Live 2012

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[@teodorb.p.composer]

This is so massive and epic!! I love how Hamelin practically sacrificed his fame to playing some great forgotten composers. He is a real artist, he is playing music for the music, not for the fame, money, or exhibicionism!!

[@unnamed_boi]

it's funny how he does this massive forgotten concerto and then just proceeds to encore k545 first movement

[@davidxpopescu]

What a breathtaking piece What a breathtaking performance P. S. His Encore Minute waltz transcription is so hilarious, it also made the public laugh 😂😅👍

[@aotng1404]

thanks for uploading this amazing performance

[@mbrough2799]

I heard M-A H play this concerto live in Eastbourne three or four years after this recording was made. You won't hear the long cadenza in the first movement (part of it is optional) done any better than this. There is, however a major and unintended moment of confusion at 8:40 in this broadcast from Moscow ; these things happen occasionally - everyone recovers, happily. Another lapse occurs toward the end of the Romanza, by which time any pianist would be feeling fully out of sorts with himself, the piece, and his accompanists. These things are so intensely annoying for the performers when they happen that these irritations come across now and then later on as agitation in a performance. Some of the greatest players in history have been similarly afflicted now and again. Occasionally, they have turned up at the hall thinking they were about to play a different concerto.. It is not unknown. One of the things that amazes me about Medtner is that, given 24 major and minor keys to go at he would write two sensational piano concertos in the same key in succession (not in quick succession, I admit but even so in succession (1918 and 1926) - the 3rd, years later, is in E minor) and make them so completely different from each other. The op.33 concerto is a barnstorming, turbulent, heroic piece in one movement using C minor in its familiar epic 19th century guise : Beethoven would have understood what it is saying ; the op.50 concerto, in complete contrast, is full of 1920s' whimsy and bittersweet touch and tell; it constantly teases and entices with sheer loveliness and with a twinkle in its eye. For a fully rhapsodical experience you must progress to number 3, the 'Concerto-Ballade' and swim along with Medtner's, (or rather Lermontov's) guiding water sprite and eventually reach the composer's most heaven-sent melodic passages of the three concertos - unforgettable.

[@pianolover3977]

I love the Romanza

[@カスペギ]

One of the best performances of this concerto! Bravo!

[@TheBiskitsnGravy]

as always, superb. thank you

[@1fattyfatman]

He was in really fine form here.

[@TheBiskitsnGravy]

you shoud listen to his other Medtner. stunning, he's really turned me on to some quieter works

[@teodorb.p.composer]

@@TheBiskitsnGravy I think that hamelin is the best medtner pianist (actually it's the same with Godowsky Feinberg, Scriabin, Liszt and Alkan, this guy is the legend)

[@TheBiskitsnGravy]

i know lol. but we have to get others to apperciate his music as well