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Title: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: tompilk on January 02, 2007, 05:33:47 PM
https://www.leopoldgodowsky.com/hamelin8_23_90.pdf
Wow....
Discuss..
Tom
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: avetma on January 02, 2007, 06:09:49 PM
I hope he will get some quiet piano.

But, nice program.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: invictious on January 03, 2007, 04:27:51 AM
I wouldn't want to be playing that. I'd probably be dead by the intermission.

That's one helluva program..
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: jre58591 on January 03, 2007, 05:22:21 AM
ive heard about that program. ive also heard of one where he played all of ligeti's etudes (i think there were 16 or so at the time) at a private recital, with ligeti himself in the audience. still, i woulda done everything possible to be there, had i not been 2 years old when he played all this.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: opus10no2 on January 03, 2007, 05:25:47 AM
A great program, I didn't know he had played the Rzewski as long ago as that.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: sevencircles on January 03, 2007, 09:43:05 AM
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ive also heard of one where he played all of ligeti's etudes (i think there were 16 or so at the time) at a private recital, with ligeti himself in the audience. still, i woulda done everything possible to be there, had i not been 2 years old when he played all this.

Really, when did that happen?

I haven´t heard about him playing them (in public at least)
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: jre58591 on January 03, 2007, 09:52:04 AM
Really, when did that happen?

I haven´t heard about him playing them (in public at least)

it happened back in the early 90s. alistair hinton mentioned, or verified, that this indeed did happen on the sorabji forum before its crash. and yes, this was a shock to me too, for i had no idea that hamelin played any ligeti.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: sevencircles on January 03, 2007, 11:08:57 AM
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it happened back in the early 90s. alistair hinton mentioned, or verified, that this indeed did happen on the sorabji forum before its crash. and yes, this was a shock to me too, for i had no idea that hamelin played any ligeti.

Strange that he hasn´t played them in public since.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: le_poete_mourant on January 03, 2007, 11:35:33 PM
Strange that he hasn´t played them in public since.

Strange... or wise?
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: jre58591 on January 04, 2007, 12:04:59 AM
Strange... or wise?
what is that supposed to mean?
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: le_poete_mourant on January 04, 2007, 04:32:31 AM
what is that supposed to mean?

just that i wouldn't be brave enough to play ligeti in public. 
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: jakev2.0 on January 04, 2007, 06:58:36 AM
Hamelin shouldn't play more Weber and Hanon programs in public.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: allchopin on January 06, 2007, 11:43:58 PM
When I briefly spoke with Marc-Andre he mentioned somewhat tongue-in-cheek that he had no desire to play Sorabji in public anymore.  I suppose after 15? years of a composer like that you hit a wall.
Title: Re: OMG look at this recital program!
Post by: jre58591 on January 06, 2007, 11:55:36 PM
i spoke with him about this too and he said that he wouldnt want to spend many years learning such a shot piece, proportionally speaking. he said that for one to learn opus clavicembalisticum, it would take an average of about 10-15 years, and he doesnt want to devote a large part of his life to one piece.