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| Composer | Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Work type | Instrumental |
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EdinburghEdinburgh Royal Mile International Piano Series -The Beethoven Sonatas
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Scarlatti, Beethoven, Debussy, Fauré, Chopin
Rose McLachlan, Piano
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Hamelin brings new insights to both obscure and famous piano works
In Schubert's B-Flat Sonata, Hamelin focused on the all-present ambiguities, on the muted shifts in coloring and harmony.
Hamelin, the technician, at Chicago Symphony Center
Anyone who knows the name Marc-André Hamelin will know him foremost for his technique. It is, to use a crude expression, what his brand is built upon.
Marc-André Hamelin makes his mark as composer-pianist in Toronto
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.