Marc-André Hamelin
@MarcAndreHam
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I play second triangle in the postpostpostpunk band Tweezer Murgatroyd And The Wrecking Balls. I’m also a pianist.
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In the same week I played a piano that had belonged to Liszt, I get to try one that had been played by Chopin!
#howluckycanyouget
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Recorded for your listening pleasure in glorious iPhonearama: here is CPE Bach’s ‘La Complaisante’.
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I am thrilled to bits to announce the release of a project that is unbelievably dear to me.
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Really great, but what about…(gulp)…someone representing….(serious hesitation)…..(cowering) (covering face with both hands)……………….classical music?!?
BREAKING: Lady Gaga has been appointed to lead a presidential commission on arts and humanities by President Biden.
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(look closely) So…….I must be such an ignoramus for not knowing about this important work of Beethoven’s…
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RIP Leon Fleisher - the end of an era...
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Dear Maria,
I cannot find the words to express the joy I am feeling right now at reading your message. You have given me something that will forever bring me strength in moments of doubt and uncertainty. Thank you, dear Maria, from the bottom of my heart!
I attended the concert of Marc-André Hamelin in Kalamazoo, performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Julian Kuerti. I went to listen to a pianist I greatly admired, and I experienced an extraordinary event, unlike anything we find in concert halls
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Dear Martha, it’s not too late in Boston to wish you the happiest of birthdays! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Moments like these are utterly priceless and precious. Here in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a delightful and completely unexpected meeting with Maria Joāo Pires, a pianist I truly admire.
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Now THAT’S how you prepare for playing the Hammerklavier!! (Charles Schulz must have been a pianist..)
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I cannot stop laughing at this
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I was just greeted at the airport by a driver holding this. ‘And now, ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present the comedy duo of...’
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Overjoyed and excited to perform a recital this afternoon for
@chicagosymphony
- including Dukas’ rarely-heard piano sonata, plus a tiny wisp of a work known as the Hammerklavier Sonata by Beethoven.
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Christmas sorted
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I remember we were both part of a multi- piano concert way back in 1991, and amid the ensemble pieces there were some solos. He ended the evening playing the five posthumous variations from Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes.
Time stopped.
#RipRaduLupu
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What immense sadness to lose a wonderful, kind artist and beautiful soul like
@lars_vogt
…. may he rest in peace.
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Just got upgraded to business class, seat 4A. How did they know I love his music?
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If you thought Percy Grainger’s musical terminology was unusual, sample these nuggets from Leif Segerstam’s String Quartet no.6...seldom have performers felt so addressed!
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On Sunday, I finished recording all of
@WBolcom
's 27 piano rags, and what a great experience it was! Bill was in Zoom-attendance throughout, and his presence made a world of difference. I hope these CDs will cause pianists to look into these extraordinary pieces.
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Yannick and I just had our first rehearsal for our Beethoven concerto cycle this Friday and Saturday. It doesn’t get better than this!!
#heaven
@LeMetropolitain
@nezetseguin
@Baerenreiter
@festilanaudiere
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No.
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Worst misspellings of my name, chapter 2862 (the driver at the airport was expecting two people!)
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It gives me great pleasure to announce my next
@hyperionrecords
album - a double-disc of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Sonatas & Rondos. Out on 1/7 but you can pre-order & preview excerpts from the tracks now on Apple Music:
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Finally! Our first night out since the beginning of the pandemic! All vaccinated and ready for a super meal!
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Noticed near Boston. Too bad there’s not a David’s Diamonds right next to it
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Playing at Perugia’s Teatro Morlacchi tonight. How can it not inspire?!
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I’ve always said that, for me, my top 2 in 20th c. Piano lit are Gaspard De La Nuit and the Boulez Second Sonata. The Boulez is full of passion!
I am not listening to anyone who tells me there is no expression in Boulez - it is hyper-expressive music!
@carolinefrmus
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I feel a bit ambivalent at this point about posting anything humorous, but I still would love to at least make you all smile, so here’s another one of those old sheet music back cover parodies I did a long time ago
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With my beloved and beautiful Cathy, celebrating our wedding anniversary tonight - three years of pure joy! ❤️
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It’s content like this that would make me very sorry to leave Twitter
In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language
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I didn’t want to learn each of the Ligeti études separately, so I made up a giant one called Entrelacs De Vertige En Désordre Dans L’escalier Du Diable À Varsovie.
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My Tiny Desk Concert is up! Many, many thanks to the team at
@nprclassical
- I had a ball!
@WBolcom
Watch pianist
@MarcAndreHam
, who’s been called “a performer of near-superhuman prowess,” play a smart set that spans six centuries at the
#tinydesk
.
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Don’t agree at all. 100+ years ago there was a piano in almost every home. If this is the closest way we can come back to that, then I’m all for it. Let the public enjoy it, in these public places, even if it’s two people playing ‘Heart And Soul’. No place for purism here.
In little more than a decade, the station concourse piano has metamorphosed from joyous entertainer into serial irritant.
Grumpy old man in my October column for
@ClassicalMusic_
#piano
#playmepiano
#grumpyoldman
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This is it – the moment that so many of you have been waiting for is now becoming reality. Loud cheers to
@hyperionrecords
and
@UMG
!!
We are thrilled to announce that Hyperion albums are now available for streaming. From today, 200 hand-picked titles from our cherished catalogue have been made available, including many of our finest treasures. Start exploring now 🎧
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‘FOUR’?!?!?!?!?!?
Taylor Swift has mastered all 4 genres of music. What else is there for her to do?
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I wonder if there’s anyone out there who can guess what this piece is. This section is the last couple of pages of a piano piece I’ve recently recorded (yet unreleased) and which will be part of my season program for next year.
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Nowadays, everything is available on demand, and it’s hard to appreciate that things used to be different; whenever this cartoon appeared on TV when I was little, it was an EVENT.
Many of us were introduced to classical music by cartoons like "Rhapsody Rabbit", excerpted here. Until about the mid-20th century, the syntax of so-called "Western Art Music" retained at least a slender connection to Vernacular/Popular music. Its severance had a profound effect.
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The next recording plans (and my musical food these days)
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Even if the film weren’t running too fast - the music is actually a half-step sharp - this would still be a mindscrambler.
Remembering the great Art Tatum who was born on this day in 1909. Considered one of the greatest technical virtuosos in jazz, Tatum extended the vocabulary and boundaries of jazz piano.
In his improvisations Tatum was given to spontaneously inserting entirely new chord
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If what they intended to quote was Messiaen’s ‘Le Baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus’, they actually got it right!
Reason number 58 why it’s important to consult musicians when designing music merchandise
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I have to confess that not only do I really like this song, but yesterday I found a copy of the original 45 rpm single here in Rome!
In the 1970s, Italian singer Adriano Celentano created a hit song that defied convention. "Prisencolinensinainciusol," released in 1972, featured gibberish lyrics meant to sound like English. The song was a playful satire of the global fascination with American culture and the
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So thrilling to see you both there!
Look who I bumped into yesterday! (Fabulous recital by Marc at the QEH).
@houghhough
@MarcAndreHam
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For those old enough to remember (myself included, 57 today 😲), here's how 60s icon Tiny Tim would have practiced Hanon's exercise no.24
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Even today, Liszt’s detractors point derisively to the virtuosic elements of his writing, while violinistic pyrotechnics are never, ever, ever, ever objected to.
Discuss.
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Of all the questionable translations I've ever come across, this takes the proverbial cake.
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I’m at the polar opposite. Many will disagree, but I think a musical experience should be entirely free from any sense of physical struggle or exhibitionistic expression. I want listeners to receive it in the purest way, free from any visible sign of the performer’s intervention.
@MarcAndreHam
As an audience member there is nothing more distracting than when a performer excuses himself from mastering his material - for whatever reason. We are looking for transcendence. If not, we’d crack open the score at home and experience well enough struggle to satisfy ourselves.
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Tonight in Vienna! Touring with
@LeifOveAndsnes
is such a joy! Fun program, with
@HellTweet
, Schumann, Debussy and Stravinsky.
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Sweet music to my ears! Thank you
@PrestoMusicCom
, and congrats to all other award winners!
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Absolutely thrilled to be making music again with Yannick
@nezetseguin
and
@LeMetropolitain
, this time with Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto. Four o’clock this Saturday at
@festilanaudiere
!
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I couldn’t be happier about this CD!
💿 NEW RELEASE FRIDAY 💿
A new set of Fauré's Nocturnes & Barcarolles from Marc-André Hamelin; a programme of contrasting aspects of sacred and secular love from the State Choir Latvija; and an album of idiomatic performances from Cupertinos of works by Filipe de Magalhães.
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I’m really proud of this one… It’s certainly not for everyone but it’s still something very special to me.
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Number one in a series, to be continued - I did a bunch of these back in the 90s, parodying back covers of old salon ‘numbers’, with the sole help of a xerox machine.
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Here’s wishing everyone a smashing decade, full of inspiration! With lots of love from Cathy and Marc! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Tryon, North Carolina - the birthplace of Nina Simone. Thrilled to meet her - she welcomed me with open arms and even let me try her keyboard for a sec
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Super-excited to go on stage in an hour with Kent Nagano and
@OSMconcerts
for Stravinsky’s piano concerto!
#heapsoffun
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Pianophiles - here's something you don't see every day. Found it on eBay. Unfortunately I don't really have a player-piano at the moment...
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Number two in my series of back cover parodies. (Too bad the one in the middle wasn’t titled ‘In A Hammock’)
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A huge load of thanks to the Dover Quartet for their fabulous dedication, enthusiasm and musicianship - together we premièred my recently-completed piano quintet, and I can’t describe how fulfilling the experience was! A true highlight of my career as a composer.
#DoverQuartet
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After my São Paulo recital last night, I had the unexpected and greatest pleasure of meeting Maria Josefina Mignone, the widow of the great Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone. She’s been with us for an entire century!
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A bit off-topic, but as a non-native English speaker, it took me years to realize that, in America at least, ’How ya doing’ and ‘How’s it going’ both meant ‘Hello’ and were not actual questions needing to be answered. I never failed to provide elaborate comebacks.
Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent?
Take us to church.
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Me want!!!!
My creation for today: propel yourself to a George Antheil LEGO set.
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I like your boxed set of the complete works of Kleenex…
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My friend, this warmed my heart so much - and doubly so, since we’ve just gotten a Diapason d’Or for this release! Thank you so much! 🎉
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Off to Berlin today for a 3-day session recording the first six sonatas of Samuel Feinberg. Very, very excited about this! Truly fascinating repertoire.
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Hardly Haydn
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There’s no better day to express how much I ❤️my amazing and wonderful wife Cathy!
#happyvalentinesdaymysweetlove
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How about Hardly Haydn? Rarely Rorem? Occasionally Ockeghem? etc.
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Out today - this was a blast! Thrilled to join the long line of colleagues who have performed this astonishing work, and so wonderful to collaborate with Nathalie Forget and Gustavo Gimeno!
@TorontoSymphony
Happy
#NewReleaseFriday
! Spend the weekend in the garden of love with Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony. Sex, death and superhuman, overflowing, blinding, unlimited joy: it's all on my symphony & orchestral
#NewReleases
playlist, updated every Friday.
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There’s many years of hard work in that little piece of plastic!
.
@MarcAndreHam
's next
@hyperionrecords
album will be released on February 28th - the first six sonatas of Samuel Feinberg, written between 1915 and 1923. Pre-order at:
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Pleased to tell you that, following the purchase of Hyperion by Universal, their catalog will soon be available for streaming! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@MarcAndreHam
What a great list which you totally deserve to be on. Its a shame however that your Hyperion recording aren't available on the streaming service (tidal) that I use. I appreciate the argument in terms of royalties etc but nevertheless feel deprived.
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BREAKING: A historical merger between YouTube, Facebook and Twitter!
I look forward to posting on YouTwitFace.
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Shedding a tear for an August 31st Prom I was part of but which was not to be - Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm Variations and Antheil’s Jazz Symphony. My goodness, that would have been fun!
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Ives Concord, Chopin Barcarolle, Prokofiev 7.
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We miss it too... and we live there.
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Make no mistake, I really appreciate your faith in my abilities, but the truth is that, although I obviously recognize the genius behind these pieces, they’re not the closest to my heart.
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I don’t think Igor will mind me telling you all that I was actually trying to steer him AWAY from the piece, since the difficulties are so ridiculous and not commensurate to the musical content. But, as they say, better him than me – and I wish him well!
Ok.
@MarcAndreHam
just told me about this piece by Liszt. I looked at it. It was an encounter with the devil. I LOVE IT!!! 😍😍😍
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Now that’s cool.
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And that’s just the beginning - tune in for more twists and turns…The possibilities that Paganini’s theme suggests are truly endless!
As if Paganini's original theme were not dauntingly tricky enough, pianist-composer
@MarcAndreHam
's 21st-century rendering takes things up a notch and is mesmerisingly impressive: staggering virtuosity, compositional freshness and playful wittiness all rolled into one.
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Last Friday I played my first public concert since the beginning of the pandemic. I don’t need to tell you how marvelous it felt to feel the presence of an audience again...
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So happy to be back at
@PianoLaRoque
tonight! As usual, there are many instruments to choose from, and this time I found a particularly great
@Bechstein1853
! I’ll be playing CPE Bach, yours truly, and Beethoven (Hammerklavier sonata).
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And it’s the only reason I do it. Ian, my deepest gratitude to you.
The sort of thing which inspires me during these dark times. And returning to the incomparable playing of it by
@MarcAndreHam
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So…with 4 vaccinations under my belt, I thought I could bypass it, but noooooooo…
I am incredibly sorry to have to miss my first concert with Johannes Moser tomorrow in Newport…
Good news is, thanks to my Cathy’s loving care (and Paxlovid) I’m already quite a bit better!
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An amusing goof from Naxos - take a close look at the sticker
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