Hamelin plays Saint-Säens - Piano Concerto No. 5
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2011
- Camille Saint-Säens' Piano Concerto No. 5 'Egyptian'. Marc-André Hamelin plays the piano, Steven Sloane conducts the Bochumer Symphoniker.
1st mvt: 0:02
2nd mvt: 10:35
3rd mvt: 21:10 
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One of the very greatest piano concertos ever composed. Sublime and mind-blowing in equal measure.
Another shockingly great performance by the master. One of the greatest piano concertos ever written, given total justice. Glorious.
One I love about this concerto is the unbridled lyricism of the first movement, the second movement's exotic rhetoric, and the overwhelming exuberance of the last. Engaging from the simplest of beginnings to its 'take no prisoners' finale. Terrific performances and recording qualities.
Bravo!
Hamlin's such a GREAT pianist...
saint-saens is great composer ... thank you very much
Wonderful interpretation of Marc-André Hamelin.
The music of Saint-Saëns is just magic, especially this 5th piano concerto.
This is a MAGNIFICENT performance!!! Best I ever heard. WOW! Thanks, RUclips.
Thanks so much! Back in the 1970's my Mom and I heard a live performance of this at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and we couldn't figure out how that amazing sound was made and I never have seen the score.
La meilleure interprétation pour moi, d’une telle précision et avec tant de couleurs. Jusqu’à présent mon favori dans cette œuvre était Richter, mais là je suis soufflé!
Thank you for sharing that !
I love this piece...and this is the finest performance of it I have heard...that includes concerts and recordings with Hough, Rogé, Collard, Thibaudet, Tacchino, Ciccolini, and half a dozen others. To the one person who claims to "dislike" it, I say: YOU'RE DRUNK! STOP FIDDLING WITH THE COMPUTER!!!!
A great performance! I think Hamelin is a great pianist for Saint-Saens' music.
It's a GREAT work... played it in college... and I think I'm playing it again next year...!
OrangeSodaKing
One of the greatest concertos ever written. Everything about it is so perfect.
gerontius34
Performed REALLY well here... I'm glad I'm not the only fan of this piece...
YEP Nathan... you've heard all the REALLY good recordings... I REALLY love the Roge...
Such a beautiful concerto, It deserves to be played more often!
I was absolutely overwhelmed the first time I heard this piece. It is just so exotic, as is much of Saint-Saens. I can recall bouncing around in the front seat of my car. It was the Roge' version I think. I am just as excited as I listen to the last movement of this Hamelin version.
The second movement is one the best concerto movement ever.
It's like a mosaic
such an amazing composer... and pianist! So charming, lyrical, intense and colorful
I never herd it before, today the first time... how beautifull.. life enters in you like a stream.. a marvel
One of my favorite concertos, feels like heaven
I've listened to this piece several times and it keeps growing on me, despite some weak moments...but it contains some very brilliant piano writing, a real tour de force for any pianist to play, as in this performance...
Unbelievable. The last bars of the second movement are unsurpassed in their beauty.
Yes! Hamelin is in such command and control of this piece. The best recording of No. 5 I've ever heard.
Agreed. Perfectly said. I've never heard a greater and more stunning performance of this work. And I've heard many. And this is a live recording of a concert. I doubt there is a single note slip. The ending is unprecedented. Hamelin has never been better. Sorry for commenting on your 5 year old comment. 🧡❤️
I personally find much more spirit and charm in Thibaudet / Concertgebouw....
I recommend to everyone.....
@@ivanmisurecmouseproduction493
Couldn´t agree more. Though I admire Hamelin´s technique and virtuosity, Thibaudet´s recording stands at the top IMO. Not even Richter or Sokolov, two giants surpass him.
@@billmarrufo to billmarrufo - I am glad you have the same feeling. Just now I replayed my favourite parts, especially the majestic gradation between some 5’00 and 6’12 and beautiful ending of the first movement, cca 8’35 and 9’34…what a feeling, what a perfection in every note - unbelievable ! The orchestra is also wonderful. I think if they would work in the studio for weeks, they couldn ´t make more perfect recording…..I must repeat - unbelievable……!
@@ivanmisurecmouseproduction493
I’m glad you mention the orchestra. I think the Conductor and musicians deserve half of that Gold Medal.
Wonderfullexample of melody fleeting from one mood to another rich in texture and glorios embellishing tones
I love it when they include the shouts and applause at the end. Their inclusion here was very appropriate, and it gave me another chill, even though the piece was over.
Le troisième mouvement ... quel souffle , rarement entendu joué avec autant de fougue, je suis transportée, merci.
SUCH a GREAT performance... ON everyone's part... old world THRILLING...!!!!
Wouldn't it be nice to got back into time, and seize a glimpse of that old Parisian World.....
raymond ferland YES... it would Raymond...!!!
As sappy as it sounds, I simply cannot find words to express how utterly gorgeous this piece is and how fabulously Hamelin plays it. It is as though Hamelin has uncovered a long-buried, dusty old treasure and brought it back to stun a somewhat bored public. Well done, Maestro 1 and Maestro 2! Composer and pianist make a truly great combination.
You and I are two of many who love this concerto plus love the pianist Mr Hamelin"s expression of it too. I discovered Hamelin when I learned UTube isn't just about popular music or those who look down on classical music. Hamelin was a treasure (to me)when I heard him playing Gershwin. Now my search is for all Marc-André Hamelin has performed, especially concertos. He is a gem on the piano.
My first time hearing this concerto. What an enchanting and technically demanding work. Loved it.
9:43 is heavenly!
Totall agree. So many soundbites you could pull from this wonderful concerto.
2:11 also.
Marc-Andre Hamelin is the Greatest
Pianist of our time, I admire Him!!!!!!!
Ericnk, I think the bit you are referring to is when the piano adds overtone-like notes high above its own melody. Actually, only the piano and the upper strings are playing. I also find this fascinating, lit sounds like an exotic instrument. Amazing, what Saint-Saëns did!
Just pure magic. Brings a tear to my eye.
Exquisite performance. What a treat!
Magnificent structure with counter-point, sweeping arpeggios, much else. It seems to be excellent music for cinema because it is so pressingly graphic. Up until now I have only had knowledge of Waltz Nonchalant, a few others. Thank you for posting.
Great performance. Bravo!!!!!
Hands down the best performance of this lovely piece!!!
Nope! Thibaudet!
Richter
More perfection in Hamelin's pianist interpretation of Saint-Saens concerto. What is not to love in either the music or the talented performance of Marc-André Hamelin?
The first time it happens it is the violins playing pianissimo. It happens again with the violins with a flute added, also playing pianissimo. I believe that you are referring to the piano's arpeggios that taper off with the underlying instruments... It is lovely a balance that causes an etherial blend of sound.
If you like Saint Saens piano concertos, go for Stephen Hough's 2CD Hyperion recording of all 5 piano concertos plus other piano works by Saint Saens.
Recorded in 2000 it won all sorts of prizes and is absolutely superb.
¡¡ Great !!! Thank you for this nice music .
Truly outstanding performance of a stunning piece, especially the finale really got me from my chair!
This wonderful performance is back in one download!
This my top one love piano work, Thanks
Excellent performance.
Also a great one by Thibaudet..live U tube
I love this performance
Thank you for this!
You don't listen to Saint-Säens, you experience it.
You dont listen to your parents how important school is, you experience it!
Really excellent!
This is beyond lovely, and criminally unknown. I only tracked it down because I heard a movement from it on a cheap compilation CD.
So much passion!
It is ashame that this concerto isn't more popular. The 5th is easily superior to his popular 2nd. I have al ways loved this concerto since a child. Although I've never played it it still incredible to hear. And Hamelin NAILS IT! I have never heard a performance as rivoting, exciting and powerful as this performance. I need to see the live footage!
Hervin Balfour
I wholeheartedly agree, this concerto is one of my favorite pieces of music. It is so beautifully picturesque and expressive, almost magical as it so clearly conjures images of Egypt, or at least the popular notions thereof; the majestic and sweeping landscapes of desert and pyramid standing high against a sometimes somber but mostly azure sky, the sparkling Nile giving both life and sorrow to generations immemorial with its annual overflow flooding the arid sun parched land. The wind, the rain, sun and sand, a Nubian love song and rafting down the river, it's all in there. It is absolutely a shame that the work is not more popular, thus allowing, in fact inviting/extending more people the opportunity to hear such enchanting music.
All that being said(I hope you'll forgive my florid language but the music brings it out in me), I just wanted to let you know that while this is a fine performance/recording, it does have some issues/weakpoints. My favorite and I believe that which is generally considered to be the reference recordings for the Saint-Saens Piano Concertos are those by Charles Dutoit the Philharmonia orchestra with Pascal Roge piano.
If you haven't heard it(this music under Dutoit with Pascal Roge) and love this piece as much as I do, along with Saint Saens' other piano concertos, you should really check it out, it is truly amazing, I promise you won't be disappointed. It is one of the best CDs in my library, one which gets regular play. The 2 disc set is wonderful as all five concertos are played and recorded extraordinarily well.
Unfortunately I have not been able to find it uploaded here on RUclips(perhaps I should learn how to do it as I would love to share the music) but I will provide a link to the CD on Amazon where you can read the many stellar reviews and listen to a few samples if you fancy it.
www.amazon.com/Saint-Sa%C3%ABns-Piano-Concertos-1-5-Camille/dp/B00000425S
Enjoy at your leisure.
Regards
It is his best concerto.
I agree... I'm playing it with The University City Orchestra this October... in St Louis. MO... I'm thrilled to be playing it...!
mydogskips2 I so agree... beautifully state... (I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE LOVE LOVE the Roge recording too...!)
Hervin Balfour Hervin you are quite on point. What a fabulous performance of a greatly neglected piece. I think, of all the "great" composers, Saint-Saens is the most under-appreciated. I wonder where my first comment went to. I posted it on Google but it did not show up here. Google will drive us all crazy in the end I am afraid.
Wow, that was a lot of fun!
Yes Erick, fun is a great way to describe the experience!
c'est une des plus belles choses que j'ai jamais écouté tout simplement
Thank you so much ♡♡♡
Hamelin's performance of this neglected work, not surprisingly, ranks with the best. Fortunately it is recently becoming more popular in concerts. The first time I heard it was a recording by Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s.
My preferred concerto by Saint-Saens is the fourth because of its originaliy in form and expression. But this one is excellent too, above all played y Hamelin. The fist movement is nice, the second one is famous for its "Aegyptian" atmosphere, the third onr is a vivid toccata.
Really Great !
The best vercion ever
WOOOW ..THE BEST!
The greatest piano concerto of this composer is the 4th. But this one is also very good.
Says who? Many say the second is. All three are marvelous and perfect. But the second is pretty much known as the most often played and favorite of most audiences.
There is a hauntingly beautiful passage in the slow movement which occurs twice and I can't figure out what combination of instruments produces it. It first appears about 2:00 in.
you mean 12:41 I assume - fascinating harmonious progression B-F-D and etherical dissolution with strings accompanying quick and light scales of the piano
Wunderschoen!!
Well I was referring to a passage in the slow movement which would make it about 12:35 into the whole concerto -- 2:00 into the second movement, not the first. I know the piano is playing but what other instruments are? It's so ethereal.
Si se refiere al pianista Hamelin, es un compositor prolífero nominado al Grammy, busque en RUclips Études, Hungarian Rhapsody 2, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, y sobre todo, CIRCUS GALOP!
Even if performed by a hack this work would be magnificent! I agree with one listener's comments that a video of Hamelin's interpretation would be fantastic.
+Lester Vogt I wouldn't need one. It will only be a distraction from the music itself. I can picture it in my head.
No. Please. Hacks destroy everything.
Sublime Saint-Seans.
Saint Saens perhaps the greatest prodigy in music history [could play all of the literature from Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven etc from memory]; and a good friend of Liszt
2:30 pure heaven.
Personally, my favourite of Saint-Saens' concerti. Actually, I think I like them best in reverse order of their writing...
C’est du Hamelin. Ça cogne sans mystère et sans état d’âme avec un son monocorde et pauvre, sur une rythmique archaïque qui se veut dynamique. C’est brutal, mais cela peut impressionner...
Ultra virtuoso
Of French composers this is the best for me.
Superbe interprétation de ce magnifique concerto !
woooooooow!!
I particularly enjoyed the "Spanishy" movement. Moments if De Falla there I thought.
2:00 in starts with oboe then clarinet, bassoon & flutes...all the woodwinds. Is that what you mean?
anyone know is there any publication for the orchestra part score of this concerto to buy in berlin? Thanks !
Gracias.
Otra pregunta que yo me hago --como aficionado a la música selecta--, es el por qué todos estos grandes ejecutantes --pianistas, violinistas...- no son a la vez grandes compositores; como antaño.
Cordialmente, Miguel.
Like the music at 16:49
Esa es una pregunta que realmente no puede ser contestada del todo correctamente ya que la dificultad de una pieza musical abarca demaciadas caracteristicas. La musica de Alkan, Godowsky, Medtner, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Busoni y Sorabji, son en mi opinion mucho mas dificiles de ejecutar que otros compositores mas conocidos. Aunque musica como Haydn, Mozart y Beethoven son igualmente dificiles de ejecutar excepcionalmente :)
You said it bud
¿Cuál es el compositor más difícil de ejecutar, para un pianista?
Is there a recording of No. 3 in Eflat by Hamelin?
Solo el de. Lizst me gusta.
2:09 beauté
Can someone tell me what that extra low note is, right after the final chord? Wtf?
6:10
14:18 All pianists play this part fast...In my humble opinion, if they slower the tempo in that passage, it could be more beautiful and espressivo...
Ask yourself what the COMPOSER wants. I'm sure Hamelin's tempo is perfect. If there is no tempo change indication in the score, then don't make one. Or follow the composer's tempo indication as it says.
I agree with Shosha. Since it’s not a strict rule that you must follow everything a composer writes in, as evident with most of not all piano concertos and pieces of music in general. It’s up to the musician to make it their own.
9:43
Unbelievable what the human mind can create. That part right there where that dark motif is turned into one with a pastoral sense of peace and calmness…. Pfffffffff!!!!
greatest composer of Europe romantic genre
Certainly one of them.
Why is this awesome concerto so seldom performed? We get Rachmaninov 3 instead.
Because this is probably not a "show off" concerto like Rach.
Srsly? 26:03
12:25
There seem to be harmonics at the upper end of the chords. How does he do that???
The magic is actually in the piano writing by Saint-Säens himself. The left hand plays the melody and the right hand plays sixths one octave and a half (circa) above. I was amazed by this trick since I was a kid and I was listening to Pascal Roge's performance (something like 30 years ago...). Anyway Hamelin's one is not less beautiful and the last movement is secondo to none (and few can compete).
Thank you so much for your informative reply. Saint-Saens seemed to do this more than any other composer. Pure magic and a wonderful little trick by the composer.
Do we really need to see the conductor's pic for so long?
All I saw were pics of Hamelin and Saint-Saens. You mean there are conductor pics??
Don't be so picky. You can shut your eyes and imagine you are looking at yourself.!!!
Yes there are. And that headshot of his. Saint-Saens and Hamelin is all we need. I wouldn't have minded if it weren't that happy headshot staring at us, and for so long.
egypt
I just miss a bit of french and coolness, and there you have to listen to Thibaudet. Otherwise superb piano playing, of course.
Lol why dislike?? xD
such an amazingly imaginative and brilliantly rhythmically interesting piece, played gorgeously and with such sensitivity, though now I have to admit as I am listening to the last movement, this is definitely the weakest part of the piece, so much less elegant than the rest of the piece, and the musical themes are much less interesting. Some of the other movements show his influence on Ravel and Debussy.
I think the last movement is a fitting conclusion to this wonderful piece and I find myself totally enthralled.
Better than Sviatoslav Richter or Jeanne-Marie Darre; sublime! Kudos also to Maestro STEVEN SLOANE!
a neglected composer, and a great one....what a shame
Gorgias Romero He is not neglected.
I don't think he is neglected. One of the pieces that early on in my life drove me into classical music was...sorry... "Carnival of the Animals" and I still love to hear that piece, even today, 50 years later!
Less neglected, and morenot taken seriously enough... People just know him for popular, easy-to-the-ear tunes.
Not neglected at all: he is, no doubt, the best french composer.
He's not neglected, but he's only really well known for a handful of works. Carnival of the Animals, the Third Symphony, and maybe the second piano concerto. Maybe parts of Samson and Delilah as well. But there's a lot of his that is somewhat well known but should be more, which I why I still say he's an underrated composer.