Do you know if he has recorded the paraphrases already, or if it’s on his agenda now?
Liszt Thalberg yessssss!
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Quote from my friend:
“He will now release a CD of Liszt and Thalberg opera paraphrases.”
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Yeah I believe he has said so in several interviews i.e. that he only (or mostly) likes the six first sonatas. Personelly I like some of 7-12 too, especially no. 7 which IMO is a masterpiece
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“Hamelin said he wouldn’t record all Feinberg sonatas. He likes the first 3 or 4 very much, but believes the rest are not that good—they are too idiosyncratic, not very intelligible or enjoyable.”
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I must disagree with Hamelin there. I believe no.s 5 and 6 at least are as good as anything he has written
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This has never stopped him before
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At least this didn’t use to stop him, if you think about all the contemporary junk he played early in his career.
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He is more mature artist now 
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Maybe if he played D.960 less he would like later Feinberg more.
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Not to mention he recently did a whole CD of Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus.
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I still haven’t gotten round to that actually. But true, I’ve heard few cheers.
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blech on that Feldman. Hamelin in arteeest mode
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on the story of Yuja, I remember a recital I saw years ago in Boston in which everything was good and well played and nice and interesting and had personality, but I remember being especially surprised at her Chopin 3rd sonata… it just blew me away with original ideas and a really wonderful execution, a tremendously moving slow mvt… maybe her on one of her best days? Anyways she is a real musician, imo
I think it’d be better for her if she had been fat and unattractive since she became well known – people have focused on her sex appeal and habits of dress and ‘flashy fingers’ and so on, I really think if she physically looked a little more like da MYRA HESS or da YUDINA she’d be taken more seriously
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It’s to his credit that he played some contemporary junk along with the historical curiosities he has become known for; god knows his Beethoven didn’t make him famous
This one curiously unchanged actually hmmmm
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She looks like a bodybuilder in this one (high T)
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Hamelin doing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde! (I guess for the first time)
https://www.schubertiade.at/en/produktionen/-117.html?ID_Vorstellung=2813&m=331
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Gawd. Can’t imagine that sounding particularly good?
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