Marc-André Hamelin- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G major, Op32 No5

[@amnbvcxz8650]

This is such an incredibly beautiful piece & interpretation that i can listen to it for the 1000th time and be absolutely overcome by awe of its beauty! It conveys nostalgia, tenderness, dreaminess, bittersweet feeling. Makes my eyes tear up. Music conveys emotions better than any medium, better than any words could.

[@cbcmusic]

Thank you for sharing! ❤️

[@CharlieCharlie-wz5cg]

I agree

[@fredhoupt4078]

incredibly beautiful. Limpid, lyrical, still but yet moving, soft, tender and sumptuous. Wonderfully evocative. Very heart felt interpretation. Unmannered and precise like so many of Hamelin's performances are.

[@bchalloner1]

Marc-André Hamelin was born with the greatest of gifts, but he was the one who chose to use them to their fullest potential. He revealed new composers to us and illuminated the whole repertoire. All of the gifts that he had been given, he has now given back to the world, and for that the world is forever grateful. Thank you, Maestro.

[@williamklimas7515]

well said

[@lemontea9735]

Beautiful comment 👌

[@elizabethhill4037]

Bravo❤

[@neilhilgrovecolledge2232]

Very Beautiful …. I’m playing this piece at a concert in a couple of days and am listening to every interpretation I can get my hands on. Hamelin is my favourite so far!!

[@Jayantan846]

Hey what happened to ur concert!? Does it do well

[@brigittewustenhoff2923]

I heard several performers play this. It is how I would like to play it myself if only I could. Soo subtle singing from the heart, dreaming.. I think Rachmaninov himself would love it too. This Music reminds me of Love and Innocence , a Butterfly caressing the flowers.

[@yvetteworrall8909]

My ballet teacher chose this piece for me when I was 11. She entitled it Mist. It is the most painfully poignant, eternally evocative piece of music That still haunts me decades later.

[@robwarriors62]

This is the most beautiful rendition of this piece I've ever heard. Superb!

[@789armstrong]

a great artist and a superb performance.I wish he would record the entire opus 32.

[@Op25No2]

This piece sounds like seeing your bride on your wedding day, after all of the sad moments you have been through together, you have finally made it and are going to live happily ever after. You want to cry, but they wont be tears of sadness but rather tears of joy as you look back on who shaped you to be who you are today… Such a soft and beautiful prelude.

[@Surr3alll]

This is extremely well done. There is so much care and precision in the way this is voiced, it gives a very comforting and satisfying atmosphere to be in.

[@davidxpopescu]

Such a sensitive tone, paying attention even to the smallest detail of the piece, very unique CHARM world he lives while he is playing ,taking his listeners into it. Amazing...

[@garydlloyd7718]

Lovely playing, so nice to see someone do nothing with the body or face, no emoting, sweating, no gimmicks. Just pure musicianship.

[@DavidFernandez-oi6ku]

Sweating isn’t a gimmick

[@blackmage1276]

Makes him look like he died of boredom at the piano

[@MuAlexJS]

hes just old@@blackmage1276

[@oanasirbu-official]

'Couse is from inside

[@toothlesstoe]

@@blackmage1276 He clearly looks like he's enjoying the music. One need not do Lang-Lang-esque movements and facial expressions to get the point across that the music moves them.

[@christinebeckett5511]

Exquisite rendition, he puts all the music in the music and keeps himself in a calm meditation, perfect.

[@janspaandonk]

Zo mooi terughoudend gespeeld dat de emoties goed over komen dank

[@bradryan8071]

What a joy it would be to sit beside this One of a Kind master and listen to him play these pieces.

[@BenleyR]

Stunning performance

[@auerod]

Many think Hamelin is just a technician. So foolish. He plays my favorite Rachmaninov prelude with incomparable beauty. Bravo!

[@kseniaovodova59]

so true

[@austintone]

Actually, nobody credible thinks Hamelin is just a technician.

[@astridschlegel7681]

One of my favorite pieces he does great job with it

[@retiber1]

Mark Andre Hamelin has a russian inside =). His performances of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky have russian style (more than most of russian pianists) and are the best I ever heard.

[@amnbvcxz8650]

What do you mean by a russian style?

[@sfsphil]

No one who really listens to Maestro Hamelin thinks that he's just a technician.

[@PaulJones-oj4kr]

but......mostly he is little more than his fingers......his musical instincts are distorted and immature, both in service to his technique........NO pianist of any note disagrees with this assessment. Harvey Wedeen is just one such and he was Hamelin's pedagogue for a bit. Horowitz' reading is something of a guiding heuristic.......

[@thepianocornertpc]

@@PaulJones-oj4kr but...I just listened to your recordings....MAN!! who the hell are you to criticize Hamelin.

[@kseniaovodova59]

I agree, such a beautiful recording it is...

[@sfsphil]

@@PaulJones-oj4kr pffffffft

[@vetlerradio]

@@PaulJones-oj4kr HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@CharlieCharlie-wz5cg]

This is just beautiful, exquisite. I think it’s my absolute favourite interpretation.

[@avocatdenis]

Close your eyes and listen...just listen, then try to convince me that MAH is "computer-like". I' really am getting tired of the trolls who keep labelling MAH as nothing more than a technical automotron. TABARNAC.

[@vetlerradio]

Merci, ca aucun sens! C'gars là est une merveille musicale et un génie du jeu pianistique :P De plus, c'tait le meilleur ami de mon prof de piano au Cégep, c'est drôle comment les deux se ressemblent quand ils parlent.

[@paulmayerpiano]

Haha tabarnac, indeed! It's really unfortunate that people label MAH as a "technician" because they're missing out on a very sensitive, insightful musical mind, who prepares pieces with the utmost care and attention to perform them as only he can. I think people find it easy to vastly misunderstand and label him in this way because, let's admit it, his technique is so stunningly superb, and his performances are so clean and perfect that you can't help but notice it. Is that a bad thing? I think it's so rare that most people just don't know how to handle it. Something inside them screams "THIS CAN NOT BE!" and their minds follow. Michelangeli was similarly criticized. Secondly, his "personality" on stage - if you can call it that - is so non-plus, does nothing to divert our attention, nor betrays any hubris. No swaying back and forth wildly, no weird faces. Naysayers call this "cold", but I think he is just trying to strip away a lot of the artifice and get in touch with what really matters in the music. Like in this piece - there's not too much mucking around with the tempo and phrasing, it just comes across so simple, clear and beautiful. If people need someone who really puts on a "show", they should look elsewhere. I've really grown to love MAH's playing and I find his incredible dedication and humility very inspiring.

[@Cypsky]

I'm not super familiar with MAH. But, I find him absolutely stunning on this piece. It's only recently I realised he is behind the excellent Henle Urtext score (I hated the Boosey edition so much). I think people are a bit too obsessed with Horowitz to the point they can't appreciate anything else. Sad they can't refrain from petty comments, but it's how it is on internet comment sections.

[@ludmilasmolyanskaya6219]

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[@filipposantoro8830]

He is a free man. He has the technique, which means art. Tekhne means art.

[@grandpa212]

Wow truly breathtaking......

[@Michaur]

I have heard many performances of this prelude, but this is the best! I have the impression that this is exactly how Rachmaninoff imagined it.

[@legatofancier]

Well said!

[@amnbvcxz8650]

Totally agree! Absolutely unparallel to any other interpretations, i have listened to all and this is the only one that is so special.

[@pbpaez]

Breathtaking

[@rohinagrawal9727]

1:36 my favorite part where he seamlessly transfers the melody to his right hand

[@averyli1455]

Truly wonderful.

[@bburago9]

This is so beautiful

[@astridschlegel7681]

Wonderful artistry bravo

[@AlexVeach]

like it!

[@Powerslider]

I love Horowitz' Moscow version a lot but this is nearly perfect as well for me...

[@reallynotpc]

Just beautiful!

[@joeydipalma8651]

learning this piece wish me luck!!!

[@emilderuijter8309]

Good luck!

[@NoteAndroid]

I wish I was there sitting at the 10 roll, center front seat when the engineers recorded this vid.

[@lsbrother]

I'm baffled - of the 41 comments existing when I wrote this 40 were positive and only 1 had a mild criticism, none at all said Hamelin was 'Technician' like and yet 4 of them stated that so many people said that! Why spread an obviously false rumour? (suppose I just fell into the same trap!)

[@Anonkontello]

It’s not a rumor, it’s just that many people outside of KZbin say that. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

[@ThatOneGuyRAR]

Most of the people saying he’s just a technician probably don’t watch his videos

[@bsdkflh]

interesting question, now that I think about it. basically, it comes down to the nasty human urge to put down an incredibly talented individual. Mr Hamelin rose to fame by championing unknown but extremely demanding repertoire -- Alkan and Godowsky come to mind. some would comment that that's because he lacks poetry in his playing -- some have their heads a bit too far up their asses.

[@francescamartinelli8971]

Straordinario!!!! Meraviglioso

[@OlgaTikhomirova]

Amazing! perfect performance!

[@skimask7776]

Wow! Wish he would play more Rachmaninoff. He can start out with the preludes.

[@legatofancier]

From your keyboard to Maestro Hamelin's eyes and ears!

[@powertube5671]

I have played that piece, albeit, not perfectly. It's 4 against 5 temp. It can be challenging to and average pianist like myself. Nice performance. It actually reminds me of a woman I had a crush on, but never got past two dates. Very romantic piece, indeed.

[@amnbvcxz8650]

Why/how does it remind you of her? You felt tenderness towards her? Interesting, this piece doesn’t remind me of anyone, but makes me feel overwhelmed with emotions. I think it is nostalgic, tender, bittersweet, dreamy, maybe loving.

[@TheTranq]

Beautiful

[@regisvoiclair]

Amazing, thanks.

[@mathexpert9980]

tranquility

[@auerod]

True very true. I know people who don't and won't listen to him because they think he's just a technician. So foolish.

[@robertklein4931]

Fantastisch !... Ich kenne Sie noch nicht, aber Sie sind absolut aussergewöhnlisch

[@brigittewustenhoff2923]

Love it!!!

[@nikitaaaa1929]

Why the video has no sound?

[@emilynelson3504]

Bravo!!

[@silencedogood7297]

Magic.

[@IOSGaming4Life]

Can someone give me hints how to practise this piece? I struggle so hard with the different tempo on both hands, I dont have a teacher

[@cecik5578]

Perhaps you could try lightly penciling a line where the left hand and right hand 8th notes match up; then lightly and slowly tapping it (quite under tempo) on the fallboard. The syncopation needs to be first worked out independent of the phrasing and shaping of the melodic line. Good luck :)

[@Rusalka1975]

Интересная версия. Графическая, фразировка вся по делу, как бы скупая на эмоции, и в то же время создающая нужное настроение :)

[@amnbvcxz8650]

Скупая на эмоции? Из всех интерпретаций эта мне показалась наиболее нежной и эмоциональной!! Эта интерпретация моя любимая, другие моментами звучат жёстко, местами спешат или неравномерно играют

[@photo161]

As lovely as this is, by and large, (and yes I acknowledge the incredible technical mastery involved,) it's only that I find the performance falling short of even greater beauty and emotional satisfaction owing to Hamelin's irrepressible impulse to do "more" ...as if he fears he's never quite doing enough, Hamelin often seems incapable of truly trusting the music and his own superb playing, but to insist, perhaps despite himself, on giving more than the music wants.

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

?? Wut??

[@CharlieCharlie-wz5cg]

It’s called interpretation

[@APKeyboards]

Dolcezza infinita

[@hyperklavier]

Super perfection.

[@TheAstronomyClub]

wows

[@giovic9802]

1:54 -2:53

[@mattfisk7695]

Peace

[@birdsunion3294]

Гамелин постарел; изрядно☹️😥

[@djmotise]

Not great.

[@erikaspring1052]

Just beautiful!

[@BRAVE_N3W_W0RLD]

beautiful