I hope he’ll prepare some encores 
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Liszt Legende 1
Liszt-Alabiev: “Le Rossignol”
Schubert-Liszt: “Hark, Hark, the Lark”
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op.43 No.4
Henselt: Etude caracteristiques, Op. 2 No. 6 “Si oiseau j’etais”
Mompou - Pajaro triste from Impresiones intimas
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That’s nice though!
How I hope he’ll return to the Huguenots paraphrases. I loved his Thalberg, and I don’t think anyone managed to record him in the Liszt.
Dun forget da Lark.
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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