Hamelin plays Bach/Busoni, BV B 24: Chaconne
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Marc-André Hamelin plays Bach/Busoni, BV B 24: Chaconne
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, 03/06/19
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lets acknowledge how amazing busoni did with transcribing this masterpiece. he had a nearly impossible task of rewriting this monumental violin piece for piano and nailed it!
I acknowledge... and at the same time it makes me even more in awe with the origional.. if you compare the amount of notes played on the piano and violin... and having the same musical depth.. so complete. To me it's one of the most amazing things.
Actually, it's overratedd. Busoni was a romantic pianist and he turned a Baroque piece into a romantic showpiece. Gustav Leonhardt transcribed it for the harpsichord and did it better.
He added things… Brahms’ transcription is more accurate. I personally prefer it
@@yourmamawontlikemeHe expanded the piece for sure, but I think it makes more sense to make it large in scale when you're writing for an instrument of the 19th century onwards. No point pretending we're playing a harpsichord. I find Busoni's arrangement incredibly exciting and moving, and I think Bach would be astounded of what the modern piano was capable of, and how expansive this piece can be made to sound on it.
*astounded by
I particularly enjoyed the sound of the piano as recorded...Hamelin didn't give it as much fire as, say, the Kissin recording, but he had more dynamic contrast. I can't imagine playing this, but it sure is nice to listen to on occasion.
It's worth pointing out that the Kissin recording you are probably referring to is a studio one, not a live performance, so it's hard to compare. But I can assure you that learning and playing this piece is super enjoyable and rewarding :)
Soo beautiful! Praise God ! ❤
I read the history of the work, the death of Bachs wife. I feel the expression Schiff gots it exactly right both the expression and the piano technique. Perfection.
Schiff? 🥺
Wonderful dynamics, with emotion and excellent clarity throughout. Some of the negative comments are just mad.
Interesting that Hamelin with his hand span - able to reach an 11th - takes the first 7 chords with the left hand only - as is indicated in the score. Grimaud, who I think can just reach a 9th, uses the right hand from chord 3 onwards.
at which minute ?
@@abdousifelhak4486 'the first 7 chords' - starts at 0:03
11:13 imagine really *really* yurking up the loudest cough you could feasibly get out at a concert bruh
The ending with that last solemn minor chord....most fitting ....the very moment when Hamelin expressed Bach's heartache he must of felt by the loss of his wife ! Stunning !
I actually prefer when the straight octaves are played in the end of the piece, just like in original. I simply love this idea of ambiguity and uncertainty when you can't describe whether it's major or minor, just like a huge [...] in the end.
The last chord is major, not minor (difficult to tell at low octaves), a juxtaposition from the rest of the piece :)
@@stephanellenberger4987 No, I believe on the final chord that the major vs. minor choice is left to the performer. Hamelin and Maria Tipo play minor, and I think it fits better.
I usually listen to Helene’s version. But Hamelin’s version got me 😭😭😭😭😭😭 incredible interpretation ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ the most beautiful, complexity of human nature.. the sins, confessions, forgiveness, envy, pain, regrets, love, hate….
agree, this version has something very dramatic in the mood
It is beautiful but Helene's live version is in my feeling the most beautiful ever. She has a huge and almost unique talent voor timing and color.
@@ericlangedijk2585 same here. This has quite a few mistakes and dynamics a bit off but still fantastic and I prefer hamelin overall
Hamelin is good but he plays it like it is Alkan, with unoriginal shaping. Helene's interpretation is much better, much more meaningful and personal.
Try Valentina Lisitsa's version, and of course Michelangeli.
Wonderfully articulated and superbly voiced, a consummate performance!
Bravo Hamelin! Merci❤
Incredible Pianist! 👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜🎶🎹🎶
Although there are many great renderings of this Masterwork, none matches the Michelangeli versions. None.!
You should not forget the great Sergio Fiorentino, who loved this piece a lot and played it now and again during his recitals. Michelangeli & Fiorentino, the best Italian pianists of the 20th century, were both towering interpreters of this masterpiece
@@pietrogori61 Absolutely. Fiorentino is one of my heroes.Michelangeli spoke very lovingly about him during our lessons.😉
@@thepianocornertpc I am happy that you see it that way. To make comparisons among pianist is almost always in bad taste. Each pianist must be appreciated in their own right. Hamelin is a distinguished pianist, by the way. There is a surfeit of excellent pianists/musicians nowadays, for the joy of music lovers and piano buffs. That said, we should shun hyperbole. There are many excellent, outstanding pianists of remarkable musicianship. And then there are superior ones, who belong to a completely different league. Michelangeli and Fiorentino are part of this second grouping
But which version? They are at least to me) quite different. To like them all but no version by other pianists would be quite singular
I think Petri has the best recording.
grosser Meister, 🎉🎉🎉 absolut Referenz! bravissimo 🎉🎉🎉
This has been a very good performance, thanks.
Ottima interpretazione, fuori dal copione filologico ma sicuramente interessante esteticamente e musicalmente.
I like the Leonhardt transcription even more. Now at last available thanks to Siebe Henstra. But Hamelin is always consummate.
Gracias 😀 Burt Hamelin. 💕🙏🇮🇷✅🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶👋👋👋👋👋👋
Great to hear this piece played by one of the best virtuosos
Whilst being clearly controversial, I believe that MAH is the best pianist ever.
The best are Really=Emil Gilels( golden tone! The King!) Artur Rubinstein( the God!) Grigory Sokolov( The Giant of Piano!) Radu Lupu( the most colorful sound!) Wilhelm Kempff( the most beautiful sound!) Sviatoslav Richter( Genius no 1!) Maurizio Pollini( Genius no 2!) Marc Andre Hamelin only the Cyborg Human Machine with colorless tone! Hamelin zero genius!
I doubt any of those pianists you mention would, or would have, considered themselves superior to Hamelin. And none of them are/were geniuses. They just play music composed by others - very well of course, but it is absurd to describe them as geniuses.
Awesome. A great artist.
This performance sends chills up and down my spine! it's almost other worldly, i especially love the section beginning at 9:03
Extraordinary interpretation! Especially loving the voicing at 9:12, Hamelin never disappoints!
it is a very exquisite legato and tone balance
@@reimaginingthepiano164 i completely agree! Usually bach busoni transcriptions feature quite a bit of "piano banging" from other interprets but Hamelin never "bangs" the piano, he has a perfectly balanced touch throughout the entire piece
@@morganmartinez8420 I sometimes fail at that, and bang the piano. My piano teacher always told me to amortíguate the sound.
Immenso BACH 🎉
Grande BUSONI🌹
Esecuzione sublime
👏👏👏
Лучшего исполнения Чаконы я пока не слышал. 👍
Maybe a tad heavy on the pedal, but still fantastic.
Love this and overall prefer hamelin but I have to say grimaud is a better version
Gran pianis SR Lomehim. 🙏💕🙏🇮🇷
Brilliant interpretation by maestro Hamelin! So much maturity and depth in the tone and colors
Who says Bach is not Romantic?
Beautiful Interpretation! This Gentleman is possibly one of the best pianists I have had the pleasure of encountering.
The piano is possibly quite new and sounds accordingly? Maybe I am wrong but the metallic nuances stand out a little (no criticism, just a comment) 🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful 🎩🎩🎩🌟🌟🌟
It needs to be voiced.
Hamelin is the most virtuosism pianist alive
Love Hamelin but this piece belongs to Evgeny Kissin
@@classicalincolor3835 nah
@@classicalincolor3835Grimaud’s is better than Kissin’s
Großartiges Klavierspiel.
0:37 как просто и изящно, восхищен артистизмом.! Браво маэстро!
弾いてると素晴らしすぎてバーサーカーみたいになっちゃうところ(前半のmoll部分の盛り上がりのとこ)を構成力重視でものすごく冷静にまとめてる。ライブなのにとっちらからなくて素晴らしいです。ブレない体幹。ところどころのチェロのソロみたいな音色😢❤🎉
To me, speaking as a rare and singular composer, Hamelin is the most virtuosistic pianist alive.
Complet , genial and transcendental. No one today can surpass him in music superior expression.
( If you want to know and see how great composer I really am click in my name and go to my YT channel.
Be ready for a major discovery in your life. Significative and definitive)
Bach by the extraordinary, unique Marc-André Hamelin :
“United superbly by God,
that ressonates and spreads
this sublime music
over all Universe.
An infinite fited, adequated, stage for them.
Luminous and vast.
And the galaxies and stars
fully absorved by both
reverentily brigthens
more and more.
With grace,
plentiness,
ressonance and gratitude,
in reverence, imensity and communion."
>>> .ARS SEMPER.VITA PLENA.HIC VIVIT FELICITATEM Gratias tibi tam Hamelin! ― Yan Ayrton, classical composer. ///////////////////////////////////////////// Itaque Vita Aeternum
viva bach
@@guitaramateur4406 Thank you! Is exactly what I do!
(Ist genau das mache ich ― Yan Ayrton, junge klassischer Komponist )
This is probably the best performance of the work, ever!
It's far from it. Michelangeli I would suggest is the best.
Grigory Ginsburg is the best and this doesn't come close.
@@epicaunleashed8764 literally who...
@@pianobirb5644one of the greatest pianists of all time. Ginzburgs version is miles above MAH.
kissin's is also good
I've concluded that this is the best performance, it is thecstandard by which all other interpretations should be judged.
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAVO
Hamelin è uno dei miei pianisti preferiti ma qui non mi piace..poca energia, tante note sporche, poca passione... probabilmente aveva qualche problema..mi spiace
Apprezzo l'onestà
Sinceramente ho ascoltato Hamelin suonare molto ma molto meglio di così...non mi fa impazzire questa esecuzione di gran lunga superiore quella di Helen Giroud strano comunque perché Hamelin è un grande mah....evidentemente aveva qualche problema
Wonderful performance, and I only had to deal with three commercial breaks interrupting it…..
Brilliant performance, although he bangs a bit too hard in louder passages (although it could be a combination of the piano, the recording, and the acoustics).
But I notice that he uses an alternative (and less effective) coda than the one usually played; and he ends the piece on a D minor chord, instead of D major, which I believe is how Bach wrote it (Bach frequently ended his works in minor keys in the major)...I wonder why Hamelin decided to play it like that...but as good as this is, I don't think I've heard another performance to rival the one by Alicia, who plays with a majesty not matched by any other pianist...most pianists seem to make a noisy mess out of this piece; and I think her tiny hands are a real bonus in some of the more congested passages.
Its incredible to think that this piece was written originaly for one violin 😐
❤
Esecuzione
STREPITOSA🎉
👏👏👏
Божественная музыка! Божественное исполнение!
в згоді
I think his condition was not the best at that time.
Magnifica interpretazione. Straordinaria!!! Grazie ❤ che delicatezza e che potenza! Grande emozione. 😘😘😘😘
Organ transcriptions are also wonderful!
Chapeau !
Великолепно!
ads in the middle of a piano piece is ridiculous
スーパーテクニシャンとかツマラン。
私にとって最高のchaconne❤
Benedetti seems copied in this interpretation
It doesn’t get much better than this 🫨
Credeva di interpretare Ravel😮
guy plays like a beast
Décidément Hamelin a des moyens pianistiques phénoménaux…
La Chaconne est un peu facile pour lui, comme une grande partie du répertoire et il me semble qu'il arrive avec lui, que l'on ne relève que sa technique tant elle domine ses interprétations. Alors que son talent d'ensemble, ses immenses qualités de musicien plus que ses seuls et extraordinaires moyens techniques de pianiste sont réellement mis en évidence dans une pièce exigeante telle que les variations de Frederic Rzewski sur le thème "The People United Will Never Be Defeated": ruclips.net/video/8FNPsnCZQj0/видео.html
Sloppy in my book. I love MAH, but in this instance he seems to just blast it out, matter of fact, as if he wants to get home.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think this. By MAH standards, this was a pretty insecure performance in both interpretation and accuracy. I can't imagine he was too happy with this, or at least I hope not.
When MAH is insecure, he does best. It instills a human dimension into his enourmous instrumental abilities.
MAH has always played at a faster tempo in concert, even earlier in his career. Just compare his live Alkan Concerto performance vs. his studio performance. I didn’t think the Concerto was even possible to play at the speed he plays it live. The energy of a live venue seems to excite him, which is nice imo.
Badly timed mistake just before one of my favorite parts at 6:10. Sloppy indeed.
Extraordinaire!
Inmenso Marc-André
hockey
Love Hamelin but this piece belongs to Evgeny Kissin
Too frantic. No sense of line or
phrasing. More noise than music.
Great pianist! But both him and Helène Grimaud are miles away from Michelangeli's performance....
La migliore versione del web
Bella interpretazione, indubbiamente. Ma consiglio di ascoltare Michelangeli e Fiorentino suonare questo pezzo. In modo diverso, loro fissano lo standard. In generale, con M & F siamo ad un livello di pianismo superiore
Concordo, anche questa di hamelin è stupenda ma Michelangeli è un gradino sopra tutti@@pietrogori61
That theme sounds very similar to Mozart..
what?
This man plays fantastic but this Busoni shit I can’t stand it
Gorgeous! Thank you.
Mi calificación al pianista en su interpretación a la obra es de un 70 a 85 en porcentaje, es decir como buena a una pieza difícil de Bach....
This is not what I expected, I am a great fan of MAH's live performances, he manages to get Alkan almost correct😁, something that few (if any) other pianists could say. I am also a great fan of lesser-known late19th/early 20th century composers and pianists. I fell in love with this piece of music when I was 17 (a long time ago), strangely, I did so while listening to Busoni's performance of it on the Duo-Art system (with all its faults - as this was released posthumously, it is possible that Busoni did not review it or correct it before release), the real piano (a well maintained, quality, 1920s instrument with excellent tone, and a very well rebuilt and adjusted Duo-Art system) added an additional emotional response not present in recordings.
There are parts of this recording that are quite beautiful but overall I can't say that I like it at all, even his usual technical excellence seems to have deserted him in places. I have briefly listened to other works in this concert and they are as expected. Was it poor preparation? It is not as if this is the first time he has played this work with the earlier performances being superb.
I am sure, many will disagree with my assessment. As to my favourite recording of this work, I vacillate over a surprisingly large range depending on my mood and, God only knows what other factors. Yet, for all the excellent performances of this work, I still tend to prefer those that are, in essence, closest to that Duo-Art performance. First love? Perhaps, but if I could take the emotion out of it, it wouldn't be music.
So, sorry, not my cup of tea, which is a great shame and a disappointment, the actual recording was quite good for a youtube video and I was very much looking forward to this performance.🙁
Let us not forget that this is a live performance. With Hamelin's hectic schedule, he will undoubtedly have "off" nights where jet league or general fatigue will rob him of his true capability to deliver on this masterpiece. I also note that he has an earlier live recording on Bravo found here: ruclips.net/video/MBfNPQi8Ctw/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/TBbZP1T_Yiw/видео.html (it's in two parts). Unfortunately, the sound quality is not the greatest. Let me know what you think.
La registrazione è pessima. Il suono troppo echeggiato.
Best version ever after Helen Grimaud.
1.Pletnev .....the rest
NOT an enjoyable performance...terribly contrived and often static...where is the registration of chords?....This is fast and slow and not to be unenjoyed again.
Maybe it's just because you have no taste?
Where is polarity in registers, strict dynamic requirements,timing strictness, an global miter? Too sensitive in frame structure.
Yeah, but like we'd want to see a recording of you playing it before we make any further judgements.
Hatte er einen schlechten Tag oder liegt ihm das Stück einfach nicht? Ich bin ja großer Bewunderer von Hamelin, aber das ist nun wirklich eine sehr leidenschaftslose Interpretation. Kein Vergleich zu Kissins Aufnahmen.
I don't like it. I cannot hear the song singing. Just fingering. I want to hear the full of music in this kind of music.
Somehow this doesn't work on any level whatsoever. Actually, it's a mess. :(
I don't care for many ways in which he plays this piece, but the way he reaches that crescendo at 13:51 is the best I've heard. Overall, a fairly good performance.
wow
stupendooooooooooooo