Description
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.
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE MONTH, MAY 2024
"This endlessly fascinating collection is played with style and incredible subtlety" – BBC Music Magazine *****
"This is a bold, highly entertaining re-creation of the role of the classic virtuoso" – AllMusic
GRAMOPHONE EDITORS' CHOICE, MARCH 2024
"Here is piano-playing of such an exalted standard I seriously wonder if anything comparable exists on record. I wait impatiently for a Hamelin piano concerto" – Gramophone
"Given Hamelin's imaginative wizardry and tooled super-pianism, along with Oscar Torres's balanced engineering and a desirably responsive Steinway in the frame (Henry Wood Hall), this is an album pianophiles will not want to miss." – International Piano
GABRIEL FAURE: Nocturnes & Barcarolles CDA68331-2
"To whichever composer Hamelin turns his (amazing) hand(s), he reinvents himself.....to convinve you that he is the authoratative voice of that compoer." (Gramophone Magazine)
WILLIAM BOLCOM: The complete rags CDA68391-2
"Any further 'Complete Rags' will be completely redundant.....[Hamelin] is a miracle. Another Gramophone nomination beckons." (Gramophone Magazine)