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Compact Disc CDA66765

£13.99

Recorded in Wigmore Hall, London, in June 1994
Recording Engineer
KEN BLAIR
Recording Producer
ATES ORGA
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Piano
STEINWAY
prepared by
PETER SALISBURY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCIV

Duration: 71'56
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MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
Live at Wigmore Hall

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano

Contents:

  1. BEETHOVEN / ALKAN Allegro con brio [18'41]
    First movement from Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37
    transcribed, with cadenza by CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN

  2. CHOPIN / BALAKIREV Romanza: Larghetto [10'25]
    from Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11
    transcribed by MILY ALEXEYEVICH BALAKIREV

    ALKAN Trois Grande Etudes, op 76 for the hands separately and reunited [total 29'52]

  3. Fantaisie in A flat major (left hand) [9'27]
  4. Introduction, Variations and Finale in D major (right hand) [15'19]
  5. Mouvement semblable et perpetuel [Rondo-Toccata in C minor] (hands reunited) [5'06]

  6. BUSONI Sonatina No 6: Kammer-Fantasie uber Carmen, BV284, after Bizet [7'35]

  7. MEDTNER Danza festiva, Op 38 No 3 (Forgotten Melodies, Vol I) [5'16]
Sleeve Notes

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'The most dazzling piano disc of the year' (The Guardian)

'Terrifying virtuosity, scorching pianism, ineffable beauty and a mind equal to his fingers, Hamelin is one of 19th-century piano music's most meteoric talents ever to blaze the pianistic firmament' (Soundscapes, Australia)

'Titanic ... awe-inspiring ... truly phenomenal ... A disc I cannot recommend too highly. Buy it!' (Gramophone)

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'This is amongst the most spectacular piano issues of the decade' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

'Une fois de plus des pages extrêmement difficiles soulignent une maîtrise digitale impressionante' (Diapason, France)

'Every Hamelin recording is an Event, and this is not to be missed by anyone who cares for genuinely transcendental playing' (Fanfare, USA)

'Some of the most astonishing playing of the decade' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

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