Special offer. Found Objects / Sound Objects
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Shortlist, Piano
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Presto Team Choices, October 2025
In short, Found Objects / Sound Objects may be Hamelin's most uncompromising, most personal and most interesting release to date.
Special offer. Found Objects / Sound Objects
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Purchase product
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Shortlist, Piano
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Presto Team Choices, October 2025
In short, Found Objects / Sound Objects may be Hamelin's most uncompromising, most personal and most interesting release to date.
About
Do Frank Zappa and John Cage really belong on the classical piano album? To anyone who might be harbouring doubts, the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’, especially when the pianist is Marc-André Hamelin, whose own Hexensabbat brings to a riotous conclusion a programme of music—and instruments, in the case of Cage’s prepared piano—which radically disrupts Western traditions.
Contents and tracklist
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2024-02-08
- Recording Venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2024-02-08
- Recording Venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2024-02-08
- Recording Venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2013-01-01
- Recording Venue: New World Center, Miami Beach, Florida
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2024-02-08
- Recording Venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2024-02-08
- Recording Venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Recorded: 2024-02-08
- Recording Venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London
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Marc-André Hamelin on Found Objects/Sound Objects
30th Dec 2025
The Canadian pianist discusses his recent album of music by Frank Zappa, John Cage, Yehudi Wyner and others, his own approach to writing for the piano, and the composer who will be the focus of a upcoming 'long-range project'...
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Winter 2025
18th Dec 2025
In our latest round-up of contemporary music releases, Ben celebrates the work of two nonagenarians, explores the colour spectrum through the orchestra, enjoys pictorial British chamber music, and find the twenty-first-century symphony to be in rude health.
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2025Editor's Choice
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Presto Team ChoicesOctober 2025
November 2025
In short, Found Objects / Sound Objects may be Hamelin's most uncompromising, most personal and most interesting release to date.
29th October 2025
magisterially wonderful...Every object on this refreshing album is well worth finding and listening to.
