Music Toronto presents Marc-André Hamelin

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Marc-André Hamelin makes his mark as composer-pianist in Toronto

Stanley Fefferman, 30th January

The virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin played a program of works by Bach, Fauré, Ravel and Rachmaninov, bracketed by his own Variations on a theme by Paganini. Last March in Toronto, when Hamelin snuck this piece into the program as an encore, I wrote that it was “ten minutes of the most fun you’ll ever have crowding around a piano at the end of party.

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Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, Op.36
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)	Fantasia and Fugue "Grand" in G Minor, BWV542
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)	Impromptu no. 2 in F minor, Op.31
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)	Barcarolle no.3 in G flat major, Op.42
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	Gaspard de la nuit
Hamelin, Marc-André (b. 1961)	Variations on a theme by Paganini
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Prelude in G major, Op.32 no.5
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Prelude in G sharp minor, Op.32 no.12
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, Op.36