Klassik Tipps Archiv Klavier April/Juni 2000 Translate this page Die pianistische Herausforderung ist immens, Marc Andre hamelin - als Zauberer und Nichtnur als virtuoser pianist - Höchstschwierigkeiten scheint es für ihn http://www.klassiktipps.de/archiv/ar 3 00/arklav4.htm
Extractions: KLASSIK TIPPS ARCHIV - Rubriken KLAVIER Empfehlungen Juli - September 2000 Leopold Godowsky , polnischer Pianist und einer der ganz grossen Tastenvirtuosen hat sich einen besonderen Namen mit der Bearbeitung Stücke grosser Komponisten gemacht. Sämtliche Studien über die Etüden von Chopin sind ein unglaubliches Stück Musik, mit höchster pianistischer Herausforderung. Marc Andre Hamelin hat sich hier zweifellos selbst übertroffen. Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variationen sind ein wunderbares Werk und ein Markstein in der Musikgeschichte. Angela Hewitts Einspielung gilt als eine der besten Bach Interpretationen der letzten Zeit. Charles Alkan ist ein französischer Komponist der Romantik, der bei uns praktisch unbekannt ist, bzw. war muss man jetzt sagen. Erst in der letzten Zeit wurde der Musik dieses Komponisten zu neuem Leben verholfen. Machen Sie sich selbst ein Bild mit den Klavierstücken, gespielt von Bernard Ringeisen und Laurent Martin, die sehr preiswert zu haben sind. Es lohnt sich. Mit einem Klick auf die Titelbezeichnung landen Sie direkt bei der Detailbeschreibung.
South Philadelphia Habitat For Humanity Grammy Nominated Classical pianist Marc Andrehamelin and his wife, the criticallyacclaimed soprano, Jody Karin Applebaum will be performing a Cabaret-style http://www.libertynet.org/sphilhab/events/
Extractions: See You There!!! Saturday, July 6th: South Philadelphia's own Grammy-nominated Classical pianist, Marc Andre-Hamelin and his wife, the critically acclaimed sporano, Jody Karin Applebaum, will be performing a Cabaret style show at the Delancey Street Theatre for the benefit of the South Philadelphia Habitat. There will be a "Meet the Artists" reception following the show. Please do not hesitate to contact our office for tickets now as seating is limited and will go fast!
UMKC Conservatory Of Music - Performance Grammy nominee marcandre hamelin will performance will feature a set of the PianistStanislav Ioudenitch with the Accorda String Quartet Monday, March 24, 2003 http://www.umkc.edu/performance/events/search.asp
Disques Du Mois / Discs Of The Month In the liner notes to this astonishing album, pianist marcandre Hamelindeadpans, I don't like playing difficult music. Sure, sure. http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/scena_musicale/html/1998/sm4-1/sm4-1Dis
Extractions: In the liner notes to this astonishing album, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin deadpans, "I don't like playing difficult music." Sure, sure. A quick listen to this dazzling new recording confirms Hamelin's status as today's top interpreter of the world's most challenging piano music. Hamelin has selected 17 short piano compositions by nine of this century's greatest virtuoso pianists, winnowing the soulful seed from the showy chaff. While the Rachmaninov and Scriabin selections are well known, this disc holds many delicious surprises, including Godowsky's ethereal Toccata in G flat major , Alkan's witty transcription of Haydn's "Twinkle, twinkle little star" movement from
Piano Six - Marc-André Hamelin - Tour Schedule February 2002 MARCANDRÉ hamelin. Northern Ontario Tour February 6-12, of champions like Mark-André hamelin, it is now clear and recording artist, Marc-André hamelin is now making his http://www.pianosix.com/MHprog8e.html
Extractions: * Canadian work World premiere performance ***PROGRAMME NOTES*** FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) The music of Franz Schubert, virtually unknown during his brief and unhappy life, forms a bridge between the elegant classicism of Mozart and Haydn and the extravagant emotionalism of later Romantics like Schumann and Liszt. Unlike his more intimate, self-revelatory music for piano, The Wanderer Fantasy , composed in 1821, is one of the most brilliant and technically demanding works in the whole of the repertoire. Hungarian virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt so admired its passion and virtuosic possibilities that he later transformed it into a sprawling canvas for piano and orchestra. Ironically, Schubert himself lacked the keyboard skills to play the piece well. The story is told that one day, after stumbling through the treacherous final movement, he leaped off the piano bench, slammed down the lid and shouted
Piano Six - MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN Tour Schedule MARCANDRÉ hamelin. Interior British Columbia October 1999 recording artist, Montreal-born Marc-André hamelin is now making difficult as it sounds, hamelin admits that it truly http://www.pianosix.com/MAHnew.html
Extractions: PROGRAMME NOTES ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 -1856) Although widely misunderstood during his lifetime, Robert Schumann is now recognized as a key figure in nineteenth-century music. His compositions give vivid and subtle expression to the Romantics fascination with individualism, passion, and extravagant fantasy. His piano music, most of which dates from the 1830s, overflows with inventive melodies, luxuriant harmonies, novel pianistic effects, and rhythmic vitality. Schumann completed the C-major Fantasy Crown of Stars , slows to a dream-like state of serenity, seemingly beyond reach of all worldly care and pain. As the music nears its end, the pace gradually quickens and the tone becomes more assertive, until the finale at last erupts in an irrepressible hymn to the triumph of young love.
Equipment And Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists Adami, Mirsa (1975) Albanian pianist, living in Amsterdam; includesbrief biography, concert schedule and mp3 files. Aleksander http://iomusic.com/Equipment_and_Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists/music_music
Marc Andre Hamelin http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~hsat/concert/y2001/hamelin010422.html
Jody Karin Applebaum & Marc-Andr Hamelin Jody Karin Applebaum, soprano, and her husband, the internationallyrenown pianistMarc-Andre hamelin are traveling around the world, performing cabaret http://citypaper.net/articles/102496/article067.shtml
Extractions: arts ... Advertise with Us cabaret Thanks to Joel Grey and Liza Minelli, most people think of a handful of lusty tunes at the mention of the word cabaret. But the world of cabaret is much more. The gritty cabaret music that was found in the pre-war, Berlin set a pattern that is transformed by whatever culture appropriates it, including debonair turn of the century Paris and sexually frank contemporary America. Many composers have been attracted to cabaret, compelled by the opportunity to express themselves in a down-to-earth, conversational manner, including Schoenberg, Britten, Weill, Satie, and Poulenc. In our own time, the distinguished American composer William Bolcolm has made a virtual cottage industry out of the art-form, writing songs for his wife, soprano Joan Morris. Bolcolm has had high praise for a Philly duo engaged in the art of the cabaret. Jody Karin Applebaum, soprano, and her husband, the internationally-renown pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin are traveling around the world, performing cabaret numbers and working on a recording project for the Music and Arts label. A rare local performance will take place this weekend. The songs on their recitals cover some very contemporary topics, according to Applebaum, including sexual desire, crime, suicide, poverty, and homelessness. The songs can also be laugh-out-loud funny (did you know that Benjamin Britten wrote a song about picking one's nose?). This material is, in a word, direct, and the team of Applebaum and Hamelin punch it out with spectacular panache.
Reviewvancouver: Stape: VSO Concert 12 October 2002 The Vancouver Symphony. Conductor Bramwell Tovey pianist MarcAndreHamelin. Venue The Orpheum Date Saturday, 12 October 2002, 20.00. http://www.reviewvancouver.org/VSO1.htm
Extractions: Reviewer : J. H. Stape From the prolonged sigh that is Sibelius's Valse Triste to the driving, forte rhythms closing Rachmaninoff's sprawling second symphony, this concert, sponsored by Great-West Life in the Great Composers series, was a lesson in fine making music. A characteristic example of Maestro Tovey's intelligent programming, the concert offered depth and variety, exploring a sonic world in which modern and Romantic traditions blended and collided. Sibelius's exquisite miniature, tinged with the plangent melancholy of things past and never to return, was given a carefully crafted, even loving, reading of truly haunting character. The strings shimmered. Ghostly presences were gently evoked and as gently fled. All was a tissue of evanescence and fleeting feelings. A familiar enough piece, the waltz, was here conducted with a golden baton that peeled off thick layers of accumulated cliche to reveal new intensities, charms, and that most transitory of transitory things: graceful elegance. With its rapid-fire changes in dynamics and tempo "The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43," (1934) came as vivid, painfully abrupt shifting of gears. The virtuoso demands of a piece that Rachmaninoff himself called "rather difficult" threatened to crowd out musicality, but the tight rein Maestro Tovey kept over his orchestral forces and the highly disciplined, steely precision of Marc-Andre Hamelin's pianism effected an impressive balance between large bravura gestures and intimately etched moments.
Home Content Articles La Scena Musicale Search Hyperion CDA 67050 **** In the liner notes to this astonishing album, pianist MarcAndreHamelin deadpans, I don't like playing difficult music. Sure, sure. http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm4-1/sm4-1DiscsMonth.htm
Extractions: In the liner notes to this astonishing album, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin deadpans, "I don't like playing difficult music." Sure, sure. A quick listen to this dazzling new recording confirms Hamelin's status as today's top interpreter of the world's most challenging piano music. Hamelin has selected 17 short piano compositions by nine of this century's greatest virtuoso pianists, winnowing the soulful seed from the showy chaff. While the Rachmaninov and Scriabin selections are well known, this disc holds many delicious surprises, including Godowsky's ethereal Toccata in G flat major , Alkan's witty transcription of Haydn's "Twinkle, twinkle little star" movement from Symphony No. 94
Extractions: Home Instrumental Alfred Brendel Artist: Alfred Brendel Album: Schubert: Piano Sonatas Cat. #: Discs: Label: Philips Usually ships: 2-3 weeks Normally: NZD OpusCDs Price: NZD Qty: Brendel at his best, as here, is an experience to be treasured by all. The performances collected here all come from recent live performances. This is repertoire dear to Brendel, repertoire that in many ways he has made his own. These great Schubert sonatas include the last three, among them the famous D960. These live recordings show Brendel in his key repertoire, in direct contact with his public. Brendel is often credited as the pianist who has brought Schuberts last sonatas to the fore of the piano repertoire. He has recorded them at least twice previously, but never live. This recording is a key testimony to the art of Alfred Brendel.
Extractions: Home Instrumental Yundi Li (piano) Artist: Yundi Li (piano) Album: Chopin Cat. #: Discs: Label: Deutsche Grammophon Usually ships: 2-3 weeks Normally: NZD OpusCDs Price: NZD Qty: A very fine debut disc introduces a pianist equipped with a rare and poetic talent. 19 year old Chinese pianist Yundi Li won the 2000 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and this unequivocal triumph is faithfully mirrored on this debut album. Everything is naturally and enviably proportioned, and everything fuelled by a style and poise way beyond his years. Highly recommended Disc 1: Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, op. 58
Washingtonpost.com: Live Online Alexandria, Va. Last session someone asked you about super virtuoso pianist MarcAndreHamelin and why he doesnt appear more often with major orchestras. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/03/regular/entertainment/r_enter
Extractions: Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2003; 4 p.m. ET Tim Page is the chief classical music critic for The Washington Post and the author or editor of a dozen books, including "Dawn Powell: A Biography," "The Glenn Gould Reader," "The Unknown Sigrid Undset," "William Kapell: A Documentary Life History of the American Pianist" and the forthcoming "Tim Page on Music" (Amadeus Press). He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1997 for his writings about music for The Post. He has also worked as an artistic adviser (the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra), a radio host (WNYC-FM in New York), a record producer (BMG Catalyst) and, in his younger days, a rock musician and cocktail pianist. A graduate of Columbia University, he lives in Washington with his wife, Julieta Stack. A transcript follows.
Radio Two In Performance April Listings Tuesday April 11 The Concert From Ottawa, pianist Marc Andre Hamelinin recital Ives Sonata no. 2 (Concord) Liszt Benediction http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/inperformance/APRIL2000/Apr2000lst.htm
