It's so funny, I bought that dvd, and watched the interview, and thought to myself "Ok, I may have been a litle harsh on the guy, he may be a genuine musician, who has been brandished with this 'supervirtuoso" label by genuinly CRAP pianists!" So I clicked off the screen, and was on bonus', and thought, "ahh ringtone waltz??" I watched this, and thought...."That is why people don't take you seriously!!"
I didn't like any performaces on the disk, although, the arpeggio at the end of the Chopin sonata was rather nice! The Chopin sonata is awful though, the 1st movement is not majestic at all, and it is not legato at all! The 2nd mvt is amazingly clean fingerwork, but is it anything else? The 3rd mvt, well, does Hamelin have a cantabile tone compared to Rachmaninoff or Cortot? I think not. The 4th mvt...does he know the meaning of ma non troppo? Also does he reasise that it is possible to play all the octave melodys perfectly legato on the top line by actually working hard? (this is what peopel mean when they say they don't think he has a great technique, he doesn't actually solve the major problem, which in this case is...legato octaves)