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It’s worth remembering that “early” Haydn almost never means “immature” […]
Max Reger wrote, “my Piano Concerto is going to be misunderstood for years. The musical language is too austere and too serious; it is, so
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899-1974) was a violinist, pianist, and prolific composer who left behind a catalog of more than 175 symphonic, chamber, violin, and piano works.
Pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s unprecedented technical acumen, huge sonority, and unflappable control of the piano is everywhere evident in this Liszt recital, along with new-found reserves
Had Rachmaninov not come along and written his Second and Third Concertos, there’s a good chance that the Scharwenka First and Rubinstein Fourth would have
Marc-André Hamelin’s works celebrate the great Western tradition of composer/pianists, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Those who know the piano repertoire well (and
Marc-André Hamelin is to the piano what Heifetz was to the violin: an artist of such technical accomplishment that many writers have characterized him as
Alkan’s Concerto for solo piano (a/k/a movements eight, nine, and ten of the composer’s Twelve Etudes in the Minor Keys Op. 39) has long been
Soprano Jody Karin Applebaum and her husband pianist Marc-André Hamelin have a knack for finding a wide range of witty, intelligent songs that for the
Who else but Marc-André Hamelin can open an all-Chopin recital with the gentle Berceuse and get away with it? The pianist quickly puts listeners in
