He looks so relaxed when playing. One thing I like about hamelin's playing is how he sheds all unnecessary movements and just let's the music flow. He always has this great efficiency of motion.
@@estakass1482 not even close. He has roughly the same sound with my 16 years old student (tennessee U piano ambassador). It takes a lot of years to achieve the evenness hamelin has (as well as trifonov, pogorelich, angelich, demidenko etc etc). Im sure his sound will soften by the years.
I keep watching this one, incredible the writing for one hand. I really love what he does with his transcriptions, he puts a bit of himself in there while staying true pretty close to the original idea. You get a sense of him when he deviates or adds a strange harmony that later seems to fit. I notice twice he has the left hand play notes that are over the melody, very clever, very musical. Very difficult to keep the melody line while playing many other notes around it and very difficult pedaling especially with so many passing tones. I would call this re-interpretation rather than transcription. Genius work by both here.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed that :) I feel like something like that can only come out of a performance with passion behind it. imo, Hamelin has the best performance of this study out there.
His monster hands help with that. I can reach 10th and 11ths and still find myself going to 5 rather than 4 in this piece. He also has quite flexible hands for how large they are too
this piece is, in my opinion, the best godowsky adaptation of any of Chopin's works. It predates The opus 10 no.1 etudes, and my other favorites : the two last etudes on opus 25. It sounds like it's made for two hands, more than any of the etudes.
@@j.vonhogen9650 Well OP could have known about the pianists you mentioned and you assumed he was unaware of them and therefore insulted his intelligence in a way. You could have asked him if he heard of them, but you just said that he was unaware. And its clear you dont agree lol you would have put a positive comment.
@@surr3al756 - You are wrong about this. I used the polite phrase "You seem to be unaware of", which is just describing an observation. In no way was I assuming anything, so I could not have "insulted his intelligence" either. By accusing me, you are doing the exact thing you are accusing me of (for no reason), which is: assuming things. Just enjoy the video, and stop antagonizing me. I am not your enemy.
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He looks so relaxed when playing. One thing I like about hamelin's playing is how he sheds all unnecessary movements and just let's the music flow. He always has this great efficiency of motion.
Hamelin is the greatest living alkan godowsky scriabin interpreter on earth
Kosmas Lapatas pianist Ivan Illich?
@@estakass1482 not even close. He has roughly the same sound with my 16 years old student (tennessee U piano ambassador). It takes a lot of years to achieve the evenness hamelin has (as well as trifonov, pogorelich, angelich, demidenko etc etc). Im sure his sound will soften by the years.
I keep watching this one, incredible the writing for one hand. I really love what he does with his transcriptions, he puts a bit of himself in there while staying true pretty close to the original idea. You get a sense of him when he deviates or adds a strange harmony that later seems to fit. I notice twice he has the left hand play notes that are over the melody, very clever, very musical. Very difficult to keep the melody line while playing many other notes around it and very difficult pedaling especially with so many passing tones. I would call this re-interpretation rather than transcription. Genius work by both here.
The fingering 2:47 at that Eb - Bb - Eb jump just became my favourite, using 2+3 on each key
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed that :) I feel like something like that can only come out of a performance with passion behind it. imo, Hamelin has the best performance of this study out there.
His monster hands help with that. I can reach 10th and 11ths and still find myself going to 5 rather than 4 in this piece. He also has quite flexible hands for how large they are too
this piece is, in my opinion, the best godowsky adaptation of any of Chopin's works. It predates The opus 10 no.1 etudes, and my other favorites : the two last etudes on opus 25. It sounds like it's made for two hands, more than any of the etudes.
Agree, and same key too
I prefer it to the original etude tbh
4 and 25 are also very interesting, but yes, 13 is really great.
Immensely beautiful.
Godowsky's best performer in history!
You seem to be unaware of Saperton, Bolet, and Libetta.
@@j.vonhogen9650 you see to be unaware of a thing called an opinion
@@surr3al756- That doesn't even remotely follow from my comment. In fact, I might even agree with the OP, who knows?
@@j.vonhogen9650 Well OP could have known about the pianists you mentioned and you assumed he was unaware of them and therefore insulted his intelligence in a way. You could have asked him if he heard of them, but you just said that he was unaware. And its clear you dont agree lol you would have put a positive comment.
@@surr3al756 - You are wrong about this. I used the polite phrase "You seem to be unaware of", which is just describing an observation.
In no way was I assuming anything, so I could not have "insulted his intelligence" either. By accusing me, you are doing the exact thing you are accusing me of (for no reason), which is: assuming things.
Just enjoy the video, and stop antagonizing me. I am not your enemy.
Playing this with 2 hands would be still super impressive
Beautiful performance, bravo!
Again, thank you for this fine series of uploads.
I know you can’t compare exactly but I much prefer this version to Chopin’s original.
Wonderful, amazing what he can do with one hand!
Very good
where can one get the score for this mater piece?
You should be able to find all of Godowsky's transcriptions for Chopin's etudes (and plenty of other classical pieces) at imslp.org :)
Dude wtf
Exactly
Exactly!!!
If played by both hands, can someone not using the pedal?
No, I think pedal would still be needed. There are too many notes being played at once, and the pedal gives this piece a nice ambiance.