Skip to Content

A Monthly Culture Matrix For the Cosmopolitan Traveler

Hamelin Plays Liszt


Cleveland Orchestra / Cleveland / Music

Should you be wanting the Homeric epithet for Marc-André Hamelin, the Canadian pianist, try “the virtuoso’s virtuoso.” Largely if not completely ignored by the prestige labels, Hamelin has produced a discography of phenomenal breadth and quality, making a specialty of neglected figures like Charles-Valentin Alkan, whose technical as well as imaginative demands verge on the superhuman. Liszt, of whom the same might be said, is another Hamelin forte. That composer’s crowd-pleasing Piano Concerto No. 1 is his assignment on this occasion, sandwiched between Rachmaninoff’s moody Isle of the Dead and Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5, which is something of a riddle. —M.G.

Buy tickets here
Cleveland Orchestra Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
Get Directions »
Start a New Search
Subscribers Only

Start your free trial to access the full Arts Intel Report

Subscribe to Air Mail to access every article
and search our entire Arts Intel Report.

Subscribe Now

Already a subscriber? Sign in here.