Your top 10 techniques of all time?

[franzliszt2]

haha you are so wrong. There is only so loud the fingers can play, no matter how fast they are. However if you use the whole arm, the volume level can be raised to a much haigher degree. Fingers versus shoulders...umm I wonder what will win?

[opus10no2]

When I speak of fingers, I mean the playing mechanism broadly, the fingers are a major part of it though.

I am so right, because it all still applies, the command of velocity in the mechanism virtually DEFINES technique.

[elevateme_returns]

hamelin cant play fff, because he's all about the music fingers. end of. how do you know you can play faster than franz?

[opus10no2]

Believe me, Hamelin can play loudly 

Oh it's just the feeling I get from his posts, the frantic avoidance of the importance of speed, it's quite pathetic.

Let's hear some recordings, or at least best times of some Chopin etudes?

[franzliszt2]

gahahahahaha I love that dvd "it's all about the music (cough cough fingers)"

when Ronald Stevensin says...I'd rather speak to a mans heart than to his head...then it zooms in on Hamelin in full flight with the Busoni concerto hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I couldn't breath when that came on!

And the end..Hamelin..I think the Alkan symphny is FULLY worthy of standing alongside the Chopin B minor and Schuamnn fantasy....and instead of picking up on the actual amaizng moments in the symphony he hammers the last mvt...with an awsome wrong note!! Whcih I usually wouldn't care about, but since it's Hamelin  

And the Schubert! haha and best of all the reflet dans leau!!! haha

Ronald Stevenson..."they can pracyice all day for brilliance...what is that worth??" I dunno?? Maybe Hamelin can show us?

and the Passacaglia he plays?

And Hamelins orgasm face in the Kapustin!!

That dvd is hillarious!! It's all about the fingers!


hahaha my avoidance of speed!!! hahaha

[jakev2.0]

Hamelin is not a good ambassador to Alkan's music (or the music of just about anyone I can think of, for tat matter). That clip of him playing the 4th movement of the Symphony is quite heinous. Hamelin plays Alkan a bit like Nikolai Petrov plays Weber. Even worse is his Festin D'Esope on Swedish television. That is such a perfunctory and artless performance, it gives me nightmares to this day. The worst part about Hamelin is that from what I've heard, he is a good bloke and downright nice guy.  It's not his fault that he's so overrated.

[opus10no2]

Oh my god jake!

You just made me hate Alkan because he is jewish!

[jakev2.0]

Your loss. 

[elevateme_returns]

Oh it's just the feeling I get from his posts, the frantic avoidance of the importance of speed, it's quite pathetic.

Let's hear some recordings, or at least best times of some Chopin etudes?

well, he's recording opus 10 complete next month & i'm putting them on here. maybe you could then compare his times to your own.

[opus10no2]

Would I have to use a sprint stopwatch or an endurance model? 

[elevateme_returns]

i dont even know what either of those things are so i cant answer

[opus10no2]

Predicktably.

[elevateme_returns]

well if it was predictable then why did you write it?

[opus10no2]

Sh*ts and giggles

[elevateme_returns]

right well back to the point i will upload franzs opus 10 later. see for yourself whether he is slow or not

[opus10no2]

....later this century?