Hamelin: New Piano Works

Marc-Andre Hamelin

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Cat No: CDA68308

Release Date: 02 February 2024

Label: Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 034571283081

Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental

Description
Piano recordings do not come much more exhilarating (or entertaining) than Marc-André Hamelin's survey of some of his own recent works.

Listening to one of the most formidably complex musical minds of today is a rare and rewarding privilege: prepare to be astonished.

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE MONTH, MAY 2024

"This endlessly fascinating collection is played with style and incredible subtlety" – BBC Music Magazine *****

"This is a bold, highly entertaining re-creation of the role of the classic virtuoso" – AllMusic

GRAMOPHONE EDITORS' CHOICE, MARCH 2024

"Here is piano-playing of such an exalted standard I seriously wonder if anything comparable exists on record. I wait impatiently for a Hamelin piano concerto" – Gramophone

"in this recital that stretches the limits of keyboard technique we are in the company of a supreme master. […] Hamelin never fails to astonish" – MusicWeb International

"Given Hamelin's imaginative wizardry and tooled super-pianism, along with Oscar Torres's balanced engineering and a desirably responsive Steinway in the frame (Henry Wood Hall), this is an album pianophiles will not want to miss." – International Piano

"Despite the phenomenally difficult demands that Hamelin creates for himself, I never get the feeling that any of it is superficial virtuosity for its own sake. It's abundantly evident that there is an intelligent mind at work with a vast knowledge of the repertoire, alongside a wicked sense of humour." – Presto Music

"facility and keyboard wizardry never quite yield to anarchy on an ensnaring collection of Hamelin's piano pieces that are the musical equivalent of a trainspotter's paradise, full of musical quotations both scholarly and mischievous" – The Sunday Times ****

"More and more, I consider Marc-André Hamelin to be the Franz Liszt of the 21st century. A combination of a pianist endowed with superhuman virtuosity and a brilliantly innovative composer all rolled into one." – Classical Music Sentinel

"Marc-André Hamelin's imagination feeds engaging invention in nine compositions for piano" – Colin Clarke

GABRIEL FAURE: Nocturnes & Barcarolles CDA68331-2

"To whichever composer Hamelin turns his (amazing) hand(s), he reinvents himself.....to convinve you that he is the authoratative voice of that compoer." (Gramophone Magazine)

WILLIAM BOLCOM: The complete rags CDA68391-2

"Any further 'Complete Rags' will be completely redundant.....[Hamelin] is a miracle. Another Gramophone nomination beckons." (Gramophone Magazine)
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