In Reply to: Not to rain on anyone else's parade. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 19, 2012 at 22:55:11:
I've only listened to one Hamelin disc where the music wasn't smothered by his virtuosity, and that's his Nikolai Kapustin disc. Kapustin's music was largely virtuosic, so I suppose Hamelin would be a natural for it. He might do well with Liszt too, but I haven't heard any of those recordings. He gets called a super-virtuoso which I suppose means that he's in the habit of playing music at a tempo where it ceases being music--the opposite of what you would want in Schumann.
Edits: 03/20/12
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- RE: Hamelin - Paul_A 06:21:40 03/20/12 (6)
- No question, Hamelin is a virtuoso - Chris from Lafayette 07:51:38 03/20/12 (5)
- RE: No question, Hamelin is a virtuoso - jult52 09:46:27 03/21/12 (0)
- I couldn't put my finger on it. - Mali 11:26:46 03/20/12 (1)
- Yup - that's the one I was referring to - Chris from Lafayette 11:43:43 03/20/12 (0)
- RE: texture, phrasing, and interpretive choices - Paul_A 08:12:37 03/20/12 (1)
- No doubt, it's complex - Chris from Lafayette 11:08:30 03/20/12 (0)