Marc-André Hamelin performs Debussy: "Feux d'artifice" from Preludes, Book 2
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
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Actually, the fact that he did miss a couple of notes shows that he's human, which I find refreshing.
Who gives a fuck if he's human or not, not everybody is.
@@grandbluepianistofthesky9469 it was against haters-
This is beautiful . Feux d’artifice is my favorite piece of Debussy’s composition.
I'm amazed by his performance of Feux d'artiface simply from the first minute of it. He does the swirl with his left hand alone at times. No darting to hit those octaves with the right hand. It sounds so much smoother.
The effect is marvelous. I can't play that accompaniment with just my left hand. I've tried many times but can't get it to go as easily as the other.
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Holy crap, you're right. And so smoothly, too.
mesmerizing... at the end of which, i finally breathed
Hamelin is one of my favorite pianists. Well done my good sir!!!
he’s my favorite pianist by far.
That moment when you want to take a bell from a model of the town back to your bell collection, but every entryway switches around and the bell is so loud that you've got all of the townsfolk chasing after you.
Write a novel already
yeah i love goose game
I saw him play Book 2 live. It was unbelievable. He needs to play more Debussy.
Love Debussy, love Mr. Hamelin
This impression of Debussy's Feux D'Artifice is a close second to Zimerman's incredible performance. I do like the more flowing approach here, but Zimerman's incredible staccatos fit more to my liking. Just my own opinion.
I love to watch a RUclips clip and then check the "Views" section and find that it is most popular in a country other than the United States. In this case, this video is most popular in Taiwan. Way to go!
I don't understand the necessity of criticisms such as "missed many notes". Another golden ear will tell us that at 2:47 (s)he played a wrong inversion, or some other such nonsense. If it is beyond your capacity to listen to the musical offering rather than prove you have great ears, then perhaps listening isn't your forte. And, if you believe that note-perfection is a be-all, end-all for music making, then someone has misled you horribly at some point in your education. Schumann would send the Davidsbündler gang after you!
I agree with you 100%. I also believe those critics who listen for only the mistakes are really missing out on what is important -- and they have no idea what is. I add that his technique is pretty amazing. When I learned this piece years ago, I used 2 hands for the mid section at the beginning, as the piece is written. He has the facility to be able to easily keep the beginning sixteenth notes going alternating with his left hand so that he can adroitly play all of the notes in the octaves above with the right. More importantly, his dynamics and phrasing are really spectacular - as a good fireworks is!
The dilettantes only say that when 1- they can't think of anything to criticize, 2- nobody can tell if they're right or not, and 3- it's an easy, cheap shot that makes them sound like they know something. But they don't of course, and they certainly can't play the piece under discussion. So they have to do something to sound superior!
And it turns out that John is actually by his own admission a grad student in philosophy, not music, so my central thesis is born out there. who knew?
Well said. So many RUclips commentators have no idea what live performance, great piano playing, even music itself is about.
And I’m such a Philistine, I’m listening in a park at twilight on the 3rd of July, lying alone on a torn sheet on the grass, waiting for the show, surrounded by happy strangers and kids with bright wands, just enjoying the colorful musical “wash”.
Was there a note out of place? Undoubtedly, one would hope so, who needs or wants perfection?
Anyway these kind of Debussy compositions can't be played exactly as per the notation. It is not the aim. The aim is the impression rendered.
The beautiful miniature golden bell
Marc André! Je suis fier de toi en tant que grand pianiste et Quebecois!!! Boum!!
Magical!
Amazing.
In the beggining, one hell of a technique is only using your left hand to play F, G, A, A#, G#, F#.
What Debussy (and Hamelin) are doing in this piece is delivering us sheets of sound...an amazing point in music history when full abstraction in music and art were blooming. If anybody here wants to criticize this guy, then they should go out and learn the damn piece themselves and post it in YT to show how it's down. Any takers..? Anybody......?
radiokid2 the criticism is honestly a good thing. Without it, growth wouldn't happen. Hailing someone as the "best" doesn't help with improvement. As a pianist, I prefer crticism over praise when I want to better articulate or capture the essence of the art I'm trying to reproduce. I'm sure Mr. Hamelin would feel similarly. Not that he doesn't love being defended and praised, and I feel your passion for the work of both Debussy and Hamelin and I share it! But it takes more than just praise for good art to be made and appreciated. Half of appreciating is disagreeing. ;)
Oh please. Really?
brilliant
Great playing! I just uploaded this piece too :)
why are people talking philosophy in the comments
And I don't care , the year doesn't matter, if your soul can get mixed with this piece while youre playing it , then you know you are on the right way
There will always be the 2-bit critics trying to show off - who gives a damn when the performer is such a god!
i thought it was debussy playing it
Beautiful!
@SightReadingPianist. Good point. But I think @John11inch was really more concerned about impressing us with his sense of judgement than engaging in an informed conversation about pianistic skill.
ピアノのための前奏曲集 第二巻 第十二曲 花火/クロード・ドビュッシー
@Frozentoes1 @John11inch Great entertainment guys.
I wonder what score your were reading
He is GOD!!!!
Sorry, I didn't tag @Frozentoes1 and @John11inch
I am enjoying this argument though sadly i have nothing to contribute...
lol marseillaise at 4:04
what a genius
@MisterSimnock. It would seem that 11inch has overreached himself yet again.
The prelude is very very well played, very nice performance, I love it, but John11inch is right about the notes, you can't deny Hamelin missed some of them and had a pair of small memory problems...anyway this doesn't "disturb" a great performance.
About the first 2 pages, not all the pianists play them in the same way (I personally use a different hands division) but it's not important if the final result is good, as it is here!
You are both idiots, and your criticism is worthless. Dilettante listeners invariably respond with "he missed some notes" when 1- they don't know what else to say, but to do nothing but approve would make them seem stupid in their eyes, and 2- they certainly can't play that piece anyway, never have, and don't know the score well enough to say exactly what happened or not.
Way too fast, as is the other two youtubes of this. I grew up hearng my mother play this all the time -- perfectly -- at a slower tempo, which allows the listener more time to take in each beautiful segment of this piece. One day as a child still, I asked my mother to teach me this. I learned the whole thing by rote memory, as I couldn't sight read. As an adult now, I forgot it, and I need a slower version to relearn it, but if this is all that's out there, I'll make due with it.
My mommy knows best, so there!
Its ideal on 1.25x
his performance of this prelude in essen hall, germany is better..
not bad at all, apart from the unnecessary pedalling at the start and during the final descending glissando (Zimmerman does that too - God knows why, it's not in the score and it just sounds wrong)
There are absolutely no pedalling directions in the score of this piece in either the Durand edition or the new Urtext by Henle. In my Durand edition, there are no pedalling indications at all in the entire second book. It's perfectly fine if you don't like the pedaling in the opening or at the end, but it's just your opinion as to whether it is unnecessary or not. I like the ending idea a lot, and no professional plays that opening dry or without any pedal at all.
Actually, I'd like to hear you do that opening accompaniment with just the left hand alone completely dry. You let us know when that happens.
@@lagunagreg4019 the cult of the written score at it again
laguna greg ummm Zimmerman player the beginning dry
What about Dan Golding’s rendition?
At the risk of displaying my shocking ignorance, and possibly my lack of intellectual capacity, I was under the distinct impression that one of the reasons for acquiring a liberal education was to be able to engage in a civilized discussion without coming across as a pompous ass. After all, intellectual sophistication is of diminished value if it is not coupled with humanity. In plain English - a little humility makes the medicine go down.
"Ah, non!" As they say in Spanish, "metió la pata," (rather, "metió la mano," in this case!) BIG TIME, at 3:20 in the second group of chromatic chords, well they were supposed to be chromatic, but didn't turn out too well, LOL! But it's a live performance, it can happen, but it's a shame it had to happen during such a climax, and when it's so exposed!