Browse: Instrumental, Hamelin (composer)

Hamelin's original etudes...with their blend of tasteful lyricism and striking textures and harmonies, are as enjoyable as his homages...While brashly flaunting his influences (Gershwin, Poulenc,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With their eerie, amplified piano sound-world and extended piano techniques, [the Crumb pieces] offer snapshots of inky nocturnal strangeness…Licard plays everything with commitment and sensitivity. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely decorative, salon or ephemeral). Everything is of the most absorbing interest;... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

I urge you to hear the young Russian-Lithuanian Lukas Geniusas in excerpts from a riveting – and, for this listener, revelatory – performance of Hindemith’s Ludus tonalis. Old-school charm and... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

[Fowke's] playing is that of a true virtuoso, sumptuously coloured and inflected, while Marc-Andre Hamelin displays all of his superhuman command in his own savagely intricate Prelude and Fugue... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 More…

A collection of miniature piano rarities and transcriptions put together to fascinating effect. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 More…