Latest News: Classical, Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)
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Recording of the Week,
Marc-André Hamelin performs his own compositions plus Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie 2nd February 2024The virtuoso pianist presents a dazzling album of his own works, alongside taking the solo role in Messiaen's Turangalîla with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Gimeno.
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Interview,
Marc-André Hamelin on the Rags of William Bolcom 18th July 2022The pianist talks about his recently-released recording of rags by William Bolcom, the revivalist craze that Bolcom spearheaded, and his own relationship with an indefatigable veteran of the American composing scene.
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Recording of the Week,
Marc-André Hamelin performs William Bolcom's complete piano rags 10th June 2022The Canadian pianist brings the 1960s' great ragtime revival into the present with a new recording of the complete rags of one of its leading lights.
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Interview,
Marc-André Hamelin on CPE Bach 17th January 2022The Canadian pianist talks to Katherine about delving into a 'fascinating trove of treasures' for his latest recording on Hyperion - and how CPE Bach turned out to be the first composer whose music he performed in public...
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Recording of the Week,
Marc-André Hamelin plays CPE Bach 31st December 2021The Canadian pianist's Midas touch is everywhere in evidence on this programme of sonatas and rondos, many of which reveal the composer's delight in the new expressive possibilities offered by early pianos.
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Recording of the Week,
Marc-André Hamelin plays Liszt and Thalberg 28th August 2020The Canadian pianist is on jaw-dropping form in a programme inspired by the 1837 'duel' between the two composer-virtuosos, which also includes the mighty collaborative Hexaméron - a set of variations on Bellini by composers including Chopin, Czerny and Pixis.
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich from the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin 30th March 2015David listens to the Takács Quartet's stirring account of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2, joined by Marc-André Hamelin for his Piano Quintet.
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Recording of the Week,
Hamelin proves his real class with Chopin 12th January 2009The French-Canadian virtuoso ‘demonstrates that he really is a great musician as well as a phenomenal pianist’ in an all-Chopin programme centring on the Second and Third Piano Sonatas.
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Recording of the Week,
Leopold Godowsky and the virtuoso pianist 28th July 2008Marc-André Hamelin explores original compositions and transcriptions by the Polish-born pianist and composer (1870-1983) in an ‘attractive and strangely compelling’ recital on Hyperion.