Marc-Andre Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin – Hamelin New Piano Works (2024) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:19 minutes | 2,55 GB | Genre: Classique
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Marc-André Hamelin – Hamelin: New Piano Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:19 minutes | 2,55 GB | Genre: Classical
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Piano recordings do not come much more exhilarating (or entertaining) than Marc-André Hamelin’s survey of some of his own recent works. Listening to one of the most formidably complex musical minds of today is a rare and rewarding privilege: prepare to be astonished.

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Marc-André Hamelin – Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:43:41 minutes | 5,84 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Nocturnes and Barcarolles demonstrate Fauré’s art at its most personal, progressing from early lyricism to the elusive, rarefied style of the later works. Marc-André Hamelin’s performances are predictably fine, and combine exceptional subtlety with magisterial keyboard authority.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Image & Preludes II (CDA67920)

“The poetic sheen and finish of all these performances are things to marvel at, leaving me to long for more Debussy, to say nothing of Faure and Ravel, from an artist supremely attuned to the French repertoire”

– Gramophone Magazine

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Marc-André Hamelin – Schubert: Piano Sonata & Impromptus (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:52 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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The heavenly lengths of Schubert’s last piano sonata and second set of impromptus: Marc-André Hamelin captures the other-worldliness of these sublime, quintessentially ‘late’ works as do few other pianists.

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Marc-André Hamelin – Schumann – Kinderszenen, Waldszenen / Janacek – On the overgrown path I (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Marc-André presents a fascinating juxtaposition of two composers who are not obviously musically related, but who are proved on this album to be a felicitous combination.

Schumann’s well-loved Kinderszenen (‘Scenes from childhood’) cycle is a masterpiece: each piece is as deftly and exquisitely crafted as anything in his more outwardly sophisticated mode. From the haunting beauty of the opening ‘From foreign lands and people’ (‘Von fremden Ländern und Menschen’), via the spare eloquence of the central ‘Dreaming’ (‘Träumerei’), to the quiet rhetoric of ‘The poet speaks’ (‘Der Dichter spricht’), the listener is taken through nuances of emotion whose effects are heartrendingly poignant.

Waldszenen (‘Forest scenes’) is another collection of miniatures, and Schumann’s last major cycle for solo piano. This deeply ‘Romantic’ work in the most psychological sense of the word is no objective foray into the woods, but a very personal reaction to an imagined landscape; and equally striking is the sense that each piece represents just a shard of a larger experience. On the whole it is the more bucolic aspect that Schumann explores, though these pieces are not without darker shadows. And while they may be technically fairly straightforward, their changeability calls for the quickest of reactions and a wealth of subtle nuance.

Over half a century separates Schumann’s nature-inspired Waldszenen from the first book of Janáček’s On the overgrown path. The subject matter is darker and more oblique and the piano writing is deceptively treacherous, many of the difficulties far from overt. The title of the overall cycle refers to a Moravian wedding song, the bride lamenting that ‘The path to my mother’s has become overgrown with clover’. The sequence of ten pieces that comprises Book 1 constitutes, as the scholar John Tyrrell has written, some of the ‘profoundest, most disturbing music that Janáček had written, their impact quite out of proportion to their modest means and ambition’.

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Marc-André Hamelin – C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas & Rondos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:21:01 minutes | 2,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Hyperion Records

The music of C P E Bach makes complex stylistic demands of the performer like little else of its time, the extraordinary drama and intensity tempered by Enlightenment elegance and the influence of the Baroque. Marc-André Hamelin’s performances set new standards in this endlessly absorbing repertoire.
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Marc-André Hamelin – Liszt & Thalberg – Opera transcriptions & Fantasies (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:06 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hypercolour Records

If, as Liszt himself dubbed it, ‘Hexaméron’ is ‘a monster’, it’s a monster which certainly holds no terrors for Marc-André Hamelin, and the encounter between them makes for some thrilling pianism. The remainder of the recital—high-octane transformations of nineteenth-century operatic favourites—is every bit as electrifying, from a musician who never ceases to astonish whatever the repertoire.

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Marc-Andre Hamelin – Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:10 minutes | 365 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

On 26 March 2020, the Swedish cultural manager Martin Engstroem announced the cancellation of this year’s Verbier Festival. The popular music event in the Swiss Alps, appreciated by established Stars of the classical music industry as well as by young talents, attracts up to 35,000 visitors annually to idyllic Valais. Engstroem founded the Festival in 1994. The Event is considered to be one of the most innovative music festivals in the world. As an Alternative to the local meeting, Engstroem has now launched a digital program. During the festival season are available on the net via medici.tv and Espace 2 / RTSCulture to experience live recordings of the past years, Video Interviews and background reports as well as new performances specially initiated for the virtual Festival.

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Marc-André Hamelin – Feinberg: Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:33 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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One phenomenal composer-pianist’s homage to another. Samuil Feinberg’s music is here championed by Marc-André Hamelin, whose performances are sensitive to all its shadows and anxieties while being—of course—fully equal to the prodigious technical demands.

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Marc-André Hamelin – Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:38 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records

I have no problem with notes none at all, was Feldmans cryptic comment on For Bunita Marcus. Throughout the seventy-two-minute duration of this extraordinary work, notes coalesce into wisps of melody which drift softly in and out of an immense silence. You are indeed, as Marc-André Hamelin writes, about to enter a world unlike any other.

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Marc-André Hamelin – Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:37:34 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hyperion’s Record of the Month is the third double-volume release in Marc-André Hamelin’s much-praised series of Haydn’s keyboard sonatas. Haydn wrote around sixty keyboard sonatas and this selection of eleven focuses on those from the 1770s, including the great C minor sonata from the composer’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period, with its dynamic contrasts and virtuoso demands. These are bookended by three from Haydn’s earliest output from the 1750s, most likely penned for his young female pupils to play, and the D major sonata written during the second of the mature composer’s triumphant London visits in 1794.

In all these fascinating, idiosyncratic works, Marc-André Hamelin wears his renowned virtuosity lightly, while playing with understated wit and the elegant, immaculate musicianship that has come to define one of the greatest pianists of our time.

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Marc-Andre Hamelin – Debussy: Images, Preludes II (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:34 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records

A new album from Marc-André Hamelin is always cause for celebration. Here in his first Debussy recording for Hyperion he presents the two books of Images: Debussy’s colouristic masterpiece, a bewitching compendium of ‘scents, colours and sounds’. Also recorded here is the second book of Préludes, in a poetic and evocative performance.

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