Lisztian tempests: Marc-André Hamelin at Wigmore Hall

By Mark Pullinger, 20 June 2016

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“dazzling fistfuls of notes ripped from the keyboard”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 19 June 2016

Liszt, Apparition S 155, no. 1

Liszt, 2 Konzertetüden: Waldesrauschen (forest murmurs), S 145 no. 1

Liszt, 3 Concert Etudes: Un sospiro, S 144 no. 3

Liszt, Concert Paraphrase on Ernani II, S 432

Liszt, Réminiscences de Norma, S 394

Feinberg, Piano Sonata no.2 in A minor, Op.2

Feinberg, Piano Sonata no.1 in A major, Op.1

Lyapunov, 12 transcendental studies, Op.11, no. 10: Lesghinka

Lyapunov, 12 transcendental studies, Op.11, no. 12: Elégie en Mémoire de François Liszt

Schubert, Impromptu no. 2 in A flat major, D.935

Works by Haydn

Marc-André Hamelin, Piano

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****1

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****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.