Marc-André Hamelin - Kaleidoscope ¿ The Ultimate Virtuoso Encores for Piano [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.To all his many fans this disc is going to be 'The Best Marc-Andre Hamelin Album Ever' or perhaps 'The Ultimate Marc-Andre Album'.rThe CD is a collection of the kind of wild and wacky encores that so typify Marc-Andre's recitals. Some are fairly well known such as the Rachmaninov and Godowsky but most are gems that have been long forgotten or, in the case of Marc's own studies, or the Kapustin, are new additions to the encore tradition. All are guaranteed to make the listener either gasp in astonishment or swoon. Look out for the Gimpel paraphrase on a tune known in the US as The Marines Hymn, this is in the tradition of Horowitz at his most brilliant; then there's our title track Kaleidoscop, written and made famous by the great pianist Joseph Hofmann, it was also much championed by Cherkassky and is another tour de force. Marc-Andre himself is represented by his outrageously complex take on Liszt's La Campanella and by his pastiche of a Scarlatti sonata, which is very silly indeed! But it's not all bravura, our pianist has also made an arrangement of the well known Adagio from Glazunov's The Seasons which may bring a tear to the eye, as may the nostalgia of Alt Wein. Unmissable!

Valse phantastique - Edna Bentz Woods

Polka de W.R. - Franz Behr trans. Sergei Rachmaninov

Nocturne ('Complaint') - Josef Hofmann

Kaleidoskop Op. 40, No. 4 - Josef Hofmann

Etude No. 3 (d'apres Paganini-Liszt) - Marc-Andre Hamelin

Etude pour la main gauche seule, Op. 36 - Felix Blumenfeld

Concert paraphrase of 'The Song of the Soldiers of the Sea' (The Marines' Hymn) - Jacques Offenbach

Etude no. 6: Essercizio per pianoforte (Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti) - Marc-Andre Hamelin

Valse folle - Jules Massenet

Etude in A flat minor Op. 72, No. 13 - Moritz Moszkowski

Intermezzo in A flat - Francis Poulenc

Alt Wien - Leopold Godowsky

Etude d'apres l'Impromptu en la bemol majeur de Fr. Chopin - Aleksander Michalowski

Gigue - Arthur (Vincent) Lourie

Au jardin du vieux serail (Andrianople) Op. 18 No. 3 - Emile-Robert Blanchet

Deux Contrastes - Alfredo Casella

Grazioso - Alfredo Casella

Antigrazioso - Alfredo Casella

Toccatina - John Vallier

Petit Adagio (extrait des 'Saisons') - Alexander Glazunov trans. Marc-Andre Hamelin

Toccatina Op. 36 - Nikolai Kapustin

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