I'm a diehard Bach guy. So I have no idea why I also love Alkan and Godowsky so much. I think maybe it might be the complexity combined with an obvious sense of humor in their music.
He achieved such a high level of human ingenuity on the day this was recorded, giving us a proof of its greatness that will echo over the centuries , that he should deserve the Nobel Prize...
My favorite musical piece by my favorite composer. In 8 minutes it makes me laugh and cry like a baby, and every other emotion. Seriously. Great ending too.
I F#&*ING LOVE this guy!!! He is my hero and piano idol. A be-all and end-all artist in piano. A modern day Hoffman to whom no piano music is an impossibility to play.
A new brand of player pianos has been invented. This kind of all-capable synthesizers can perform everything you put in their programme. The brand name is 'Hamelin'!
This composition had been used as example in the italian youtube cultural video "Lezioni di Musica - Survivorship Bias" of the channel "musicamonteverde". A really very very interesting video.
.......from the best pianist in the world. Mr. pyrotechnics 🧨! With a technique like that, playing a piece like Alkan, that probably no other pianist would, or want to attempt, Hamelin is the man 👨! Yes indeed! This posting doesn’t come easy for me. Have been a life-long Rubinstein fan, still am, but, MAH has ALL of the chops imo!
Correct me if I am wrong, but this appears to be the only version of Le Festin that is played at the indicated tempo. There is no other Le Festin D’esope video where variation XVII and XVIII (at the 4:06 mark) is played in 15 seconds. In other words, Hamelin is playing the 64th notes at the indicated rate of 16-17 keys a second.
Hamelin's tempo at Var. 17 and 18 is faster than indicated one! The indicated tempo of this piece is Eighth = 126, which means pianists require to play 64th notes for the speed of 16.8 notes per second. In my calculation, Hamelin played these two variations about mid-or-late-18 notes per second at many of recitals. But you're (partially?) right: I've never found any pianist who played this part faster than indicated tempo. (I believe Yeoleum Son's performance is close to it.)
@@ryzikx Oh, yes. Her performance is my second favorite one. It's like... eating tons of cow's tongue with different sauces or cooking methods in the banquet (according to an Aesop's fable), and then she takes a short break to fall the cow's tongue down to the stomach, even though she eats really fast. On the other hand, Hamelin's performance is like eating a lot of things mentioned above but in extremely high tempo without any break time - kind of like a competitive eater or a cute fictional robot with AI who loves eating (e.g. Doraemon (which is drawn in the profile picture)).
Le plus grand pianiste vivant ... et de loin ! quelle musicalité, puissance et finesse alliées... plus de l'humour et une sacrée intelligence. Je l'adore ! Richard
@IlCOLElI i never understood why people need sheet music when they perform. when i play its in my head out my eyes through my hands and right back to my heart :)
Pretty he could do it blindfolded at the same tempo with very few mistakes. Professional pianists don't need to watch their hands to play a piece they learned to perform, they have a very good sense of spatial recognition of the keyboard / proprioception
@WayToVirtuoso yeah it happens every time with pieces that there are too many things going on at the same time, it's probably because you start over thinking and you completely lose track of the piece
if somebody had played this when i 1startedplaying piano and someonesaid youll nrver really be a good piano player until you can play this i would have quit right then.kinda reminds of cecil taylor in a way
Alkan Barcarolle opus 65 no. 6. You might also enjoy his three etudes op. 76, but I cannot be certain. Loving the piece after which you have named yourself, I cannot understand your dislike of Alkan--but I acknowledge it.
@@yoshi_drinks_tea easy patterns recognition, muscle memory does a large part of the job but isn't reliable at all lonely, actually most of all forms of memories work in harmony when playing the piano
Hundreds of hours of practice Understanding the harmony Muscle Memory Conscious Cues (often middles of sections will be completely ingrained, but transitions will have more cognition [atleast in my experience]) I’ve had some sheets in front of me for so long (Liszt quickly comes to mind) that I can visualize nearly the whole score.... This video represents thousands of hours of diligent work.
As a Greek I am proud to see even in this not well known piece the Greek element! As you may know Esopos was Greek! We once gave "light" ot all of you and now we live in our own darkness.
