Honestly, a lover of classical music who doesn't like this ain't a lover of classical music. These exquisite miniatures required a lot of knowledge to compose, and it takes quite a lot of knowledge to truly appreciate them.
The idea and its interpretation is unpredictable colourful fantastic! It reminds so many musical notes of that timeframe. Please note also the irony in some moments!!! The release is just fantastic.... I could find nothing like this in my own vast home musical collection... Thank you for sharing this! Grazie mille! Merci beaucoup! Дякую! Yes, the music gave me Xmas &New Year good mood.. :)
Very nice and superb transfers of these recordings! Doucet certainly has such an elegant touch and elegant phrasing for a popular pianist! Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed Hamelin more. His rendition is way more pianistic and refined. Agreed, Doucet sounds more like a bar pianist, which suits these pieces. I guess both renditions do work in their own way. Tharaud is great too. But in Chopinata, Hamelin achieves a kind of grim, almost angry and driven quality that I find compelling. He also heightens the ragtime character by making it sound quite mechanical, a bit like a player piano.
@@michaelierace2317- According to a friend of his, Hamelin used to have such a bad eyesight that he was more or less forced to memorize everything right away when playing through a new score for the first time, which obviously gave him the advantage of a huge repertoire since the start of his career. He told me that when Hamelin visited his home, he was very surprised, shocked even, to watch Hamelin struggle reading new scores. He said that Hamelin had to keep the sheet music very close to his eyes. It was obviously a significant handicap. I hope this information is useful to you, but please keep in mind that this was long time ago (somewhere in the late 1990s, if I remember correctly), and Hamelin may have had some treatment after that, but that's just speculation from my part. Cheers!
There's not one recording where I've heard Clément play the descending/ascending scale in Chopinata's Trio correctly as *he's* written ... he always smears it sloppily. I'd think the author would work to nail it. Was he pretty smashed by 1927 even for studio recordings?
A few seconds? Have you ever heard of the distinguished London critic who didn't want to attend a particular concert and so didn't, but wrote a review anyway? Next morning he was told by a slightly irritated editor that the concert programme had been changed. If you don't want to listen to more than a few seconds, don't, but also don't bother condemning it as "trash". Fortunately, those of us who get minutes of smiling pleasure out of 'Chopinata' can listen to this performance or to Marc-Andre Hamelin or to Alexandre Tharaud, et al., fine pianists not allergic to a little light amusement and pleasure, and not as snot-nosed as you.
Honestly, a lover of classical music who doesn't like this ain't a lover of classical music. These exquisite miniatures required a lot of knowledge to compose, and it takes quite a lot of knowledge to truly appreciate them.
The idea and its interpretation is unpredictable colourful fantastic! It reminds so many musical notes of that timeframe. Please note also the irony in some moments!!! The release is just fantastic.... I could find nothing like this in my own vast home musical collection... Thank you for sharing this! Grazie mille! Merci beaucoup! Дякую!
Yes, the music gave me Xmas &New Year good mood.. :)
Alexandre Tharaud has recorded both pieces stylishly on a Virgin Classics disc entitled "Le Bœuf sur le toit: Swinging Paris".
Try Fauré/Messager's quadrilles "Souvenirs de Bayreuth" for an earlier reworking ;-}
Very nice and superb transfers of these recordings!
Doucet certainly has such an elegant touch and elegant phrasing for a popular pianist!
Thanks for sharing!
Love it😂
All three are great favourites - thank you for putting them together for us! Delightful!
This performance is second to none. Even Hamelin’s interpretation is not as enjoyable as this crystal-clear original rendition.
I enjoyed Hamelin more. His rendition is way more pianistic and refined.
Agreed, Doucet sounds more like a bar pianist, which suits these pieces.
I guess both renditions do work in their own way. Tharaud is great too.
But in Chopinata, Hamelin achieves a kind of grim, almost angry and driven quality that I find compelling. He also heightens the ragtime character by making it sound quite mechanical, a bit like a player piano.
@@Pogouldangeliwitzwhat do you think of Hyuk Lee’s playing of it?
I always listened to the piece performed by Hamelin, but original one is awesome as well!
Also, it is sensational listening to the music recorded in 1927.
@@sennavioleta Nothing sensational about that.
What fun - most enjoyable. The 'Rienzi' theme seems to lend itself particularly well to Doucet's treatment!
Where is the Rienzi theme in the work?
@@alejandrosotomartin9720 It ain't there. The gentleman is mistaken.
@@pianoredux7516 I didn't heard any Rienzi theme.
Just discovered these, great fun!
Hope you'll play and record them!
@@pianopera 😂 I wish I knew how Hamelin had the time to learn all these fiendish throw away encores...
@@michaelierace2317- According to a friend of his, Hamelin used to have such a bad eyesight that he was more or less forced to memorize everything right away when playing through a new score for the first time, which obviously gave him the advantage of a huge repertoire since the start of his career.
He told me that when Hamelin visited his home, he was very surprised, shocked even, to watch Hamelin struggle reading new scores. He said that Hamelin had to keep the sheet music very close to his eyes. It was obviously a significant handicap.
I hope this information is useful to you, but please keep in mind that this was long time ago (somewhere in the late 1990s, if I remember correctly), and Hamelin may have had some treatment after that, but that's just speculation from my part.
Cheers!
Cheerful ! You make my day :)
Grosse Klasse
So good :D
Yes
There's not one recording where I've heard Clément play the descending/ascending scale in Chopinata's Trio correctly as *he's* written ... he always smears it sloppily. I'd think the author would work to nail it. Was he pretty smashed by 1927 even for studio recordings?
It may be a bit splashy, but it's musical enough.
It's sloppy indeed
His left hand is frustratingly inaccurate on those bass notes, isn't it!
It is !! 🙉
Classical novelty number "masterly trash." Ugh. I lasted a few seconds.
A few seconds? Have you ever heard of the distinguished London critic who didn't want to attend a particular concert and so didn't, but wrote a review anyway? Next morning he was told by a slightly irritated editor that the concert programme had been changed. If you don't want to listen to more than a few seconds, don't, but also don't bother condemning it as "trash". Fortunately, those of us who get minutes of smiling pleasure out of 'Chopinata' can listen to this performance or to Marc-Andre Hamelin or to Alexandre Tharaud, et al., fine pianists not allergic to a little light amusement and pleasure, and not as snot-nosed as you.
@@pamos1949- Don't waste your time on ignorant trolls like him, you'll only give him a podium.
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