Room-music tit-bits (Grainger)
from Grainger: Piano Music (CDA66884)
1 Walking Tune [4'13]
2 Mock Morris [3'09]
3 Handel in the Strand [2'45]
10 minutes 7 seconds 3 tracks
‘Hamelin's pleasure in this repertoire—challenging to the pianist, delightful to the listener—is manifest in every bar’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘The wizardry of Grainger's invention is never out of step with Hamelin's fingers—all 20 (or so it seems) of them. Try and keep your lower jaw in place as [he] negotiates Grainger's 'cakewalk smasher ...
‘One of the most brilliant and sensitive young pianists we have on the scene today. His technique is formidable: the more fiendishly difficult a piece is, the more spectacularly he plays it. Yet  ...