Legato -- The World of the Piano -- Marc-André Hamelin -- No Limits 

2:13 just what I needed to hear. A man who's tamed the piano to humiliating levels being fought back by the beast. As a student, this takes a massive burden off of me.

If I were a piano, I'd be honored to be played by MAH, but also a bit intimidated!

He is, indeed, the master.

6:09 Me when I rage about a piece I try to learn:

Great pianist and a great guy.

Great pianist, great MUSICIAN and great Teacher!... Shared on Google+

Thanks so much from a a musician who has heard the Lavine and the Fireworks beaten to a pulp by other pianists.

What a gift, I just happen to be studying both of these preludes and to have such a genius informing us as to the imagery of these masterworks is wonderful. Thank you so much for posting this!

cuando escuchar a alguien hablar de música resulta tan interesante como escucharlo tocar, ahí está la verdadera maestría. Marc-Andre Hamelin es el pianista mas extraordinario de la actualidad, y de los últimos 60 años al menos.

thank you for generously posting this. :)

Great video, thanks much!

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When the hearts of people are filled with envy, they're saying those things like you.

A great recipient of the torch passed by the prior Canadian great, Glenn Gould.

Fine Dining with the Master Gourmand Himself! I'm still _hungry_ ... _Feed Me!_ ( Little Audrey)

I feel like I can hear him thinking while he plays - all these beautiful sound-changes he does!

Así está bien si no parece que tiene algo contra el piano le da unos golpes al teclado.

Thanks for sharing, amazing video.

compliments :)

oh the facial expressions....

Hamelin is a really great pianist he exudes music from all pores

@alexei6003 Debussy Prelude Book II "General Lavine"- Excentric :)

Have always thought for a long time now after watching him play Lizts Sospiro that Marc has got to be the worlds greatest piano virtuoso! It’s all so completely unforced and exquisite,with him the piano speaks conveying exactly what the composer and he want it to! I know nothing about the technicalities of piano playing but I have an ear for music and I can say the piano sounds so very different when he’s playing so effortless, yet he interprets the piece in his own unique way. After listening to Un Sospiro I can’t listen to anyone else playing it,it is so perfect in every way! Would have loved to listen to him playing Beethoven’s 5th or the Emperor with the Vienna Philharmonic, but as far as I’ve seen he doesn’t play with orchestras.Also he doesn’t want to commercialise his art. He plays for the sheer love of music exploring, thinking and interpreting in his own unique way. The hallmark of a true genius caught up in his own wonderful world , not really playing to the gallery but for himself and his own stratospherically high standards, that is what satisfies him .

No es.

so good!

He is a masters master! :-)

What's the ragtime he plays at 0:36?

I was seriously hoping he’s an American.

The man is insane. But, to play as he does you kinda have to be a little crazy.

Hamelin is brilliant, but also a bit of a pretentious weirdo.

People who are listening to this, don't be influenced by this rubbish. There are many ways to play a piano piece and individuality and difference are encouraged. MAH's approach is actually extremely unmusical