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Special offer. Beethoven: Hammerklavier

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Beethoven: Hammerklavier

Awards:

it’s always when Beethoven is at his most virile when Hamelin most excels, especially with sweeping runs up the keyboard or busy fugal complications — anything that needs flying fingers...there...

Special offer. Beethoven: Hammerklavier

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

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This release includes a digital booklet

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Awards:

it’s always when Beethoven is at his most virile when Hamelin most excels, especially with sweeping runs up the keyboard or busy fugal complications — anything that needs flying fingers...there...

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The transcendental difficulties of Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ sonata will always deter all but the greatest pianists of the day, with only a select few able to master its formidable musical, emotional and technical challenges. Marc-André Hamelin is of course very much of their number, and his performance—one which relishes all the work’s glory and grandeur—is simply stupendous.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro
Track length10:56
II. Scherzo. Assai vivace – Presto
Track length3:00
III. Adagio sostenuto, appassionato e con molto sentimento
Track length18:40
IV. Largo – Allegro – Allegro risoluto
Track length12:13
I. Allegro con brio
Track length7:50
II. Adagio
Track length7:18
III. Scherzo. Allegro
Track length3:26
IV. Allegro assai
Track length5:34

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Awards and reviews

23rd October 2024

it’s always when Beethoven is at his most virile when Hamelin most excels, especially with sweeping runs up the keyboard or busy fugal complications — anything that needs flying fingers...there is nothing in Hamelin’s latest Hyperion album (there are 89 others) to break the rule of thumb where this splendid artist is concerned: when Hamelin plays, you stop and listen.
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