I think this is Best midi recording of all time...such an expressions...WOW

The Name of the Performer is : M. Idi

This is so big masterpiece! Hamelin made one piece from Alkan's Symphony for solo piano, Rondo Toccata, Le Festin d'Esope and a little Alkan's Ouverte. And he even some Alkan's typical techniques from his other pieces!

Hamelin to me is an anomaly, a beautiful one. A genius. I think a conversation with the man would melt my brain.

This is a work of genius. Must've taken Hamelin a while to make this. Thanks for the upload, despite it being a MIDI.

I love these music youtubes that let you read the score along with the music. thank you.

am I the only one who can't stop listening to this? it's my new "dream piece" - even though I know I'll never be able to play it at anywhere near this speed

astonishing! one of the things i love about hamelin is that as serious as a musician he is he retains such a great sense of humor in his own fabulous creations. i admire the hell out of this guy. awesome post rvn! TY!

Brilliant. Excellent montage; lots of pieces are included. Nice touch with the etude as the overarching theme.

3:08 WTF!! This is awsome and thats show what a genius he is...I think he is the best on every aspect of music in generally

this piece is AMAZING!!!

Some peole would disregard this type of compositional technique as an abomination of the original works, but it also takes an original mind to make a piece like this work. I suppose Hamelin was influenced by Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Etudes when he combined all these parts of Alkan's music. I enjoyed it!

i listent this piece again and again and i think this work is soooo orgasmic to my ears...its so great and so perfect

wow.. for an alkan lover like me this is a feast, pure ecstasy!

He had combine about 4 or 5 of Alkan most hardest pieces and thus made this. Hamelin, you genius!!!!

Awesome! I saw this man perform about three years ago. When you get into playing Alkan btw a friend of Liszt you have crossed into technical territory few have been to. The section at 3:07 is jaw dropping.

Just wonderful...

For sheer cleverness the "Triple Etude" takes the palm, but the Festin d'Ésope stuff was pretty great.

I would have loved a final chord marked as fortissimo but who am I to judge, this is simply great

can.. i believe that someday mr hamelin will record his etude..

impresionante!!!! bravoooooooooo

Marc andre is just out of this world....

M-A H is utterly breathtaking!

This is amazing! It has parts of a lot of music by Alkan! It's a challenge just knowing what he is referring to.. unless your a Alkan enthusiast like me! Very interesting!

oh yes, this would be incredible to play.. and you can listen to it forever. well, one can dream ^^

I recently got Hamelin's recording from Hyperion the alarming/amazing part is that it sounds as clean as this midi and better musically!

This is midi, Hamelin would play it better...

haha that is soooo true! great piece!would love to hear it by the master himself!

I will learn and play this one day ;D

what is this madness! i like...

Alkan and Chopin live in the same building complex and i dont find it unusual that they would listen in on each others playing and get new ideas from each other. for example the FF section at 1:11 to 1:20 and FFF section at 2:34 are very similar to etude op 10/4 Con Fuoco section. its a shame Alkan is just being recoginized he really wrote some extraodinary concepts

wow insane

Well it's not a complicated piece, many people would be able to play it. But to play it at this speed requires the technical fortitude talent of Hamelin which, of course, only Hamelin himself possesses. Who else could possibly maintain those crazy octaves at that speed for 4 minutes without losing all feeling in the left hand?

@afertyus1000 - Actually, the run that begins at 1:41 (and other places) does give quite the impression that it is a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) recording.

sounds like symphony for solo piano by alkan

정환언니 덕에 아믈랭 팬돼서 하루에 한번씩은 꼭 옴ㅋㅋ

2:19

i read somewhere, the complete etude will be released sometime this year.. but not sure yet whether it is the sheet musics or the cd.. hopefully the cd so we can really hear how those giant etudes should be played..

wait this is midi

@rvn10rvn17 I'm working on it...haha don't expect in in the next few months though, have a lot of other stuff to do =)

yes.. been a lot of people asking for the score but no one has uploaded any video yet

where is the melody from 2:21 from im pretty sure ive heard that b4 but i could be wrong

just next year then.. great

@1980NewWave I am an Alkan lover. Especially his 'Sonate des quatres ages'. The theme here sounds awefully similar to his 'Chemin de fer' (Railways)......

@afertyus1000 - It means that the notes are recorded to a computer-playable file format. This, however, does not mean that it does not accurately reproduce the feeling of the original composer on playback. If the recording was done with high enough resolution and the piano samples used to reproduce the sound are high enough quality, you will get VERY close to the original. This in fact may be an original recording. If not, in my opinion, everything is in high enough quality that it will pass.

Hamelin is GODLIKE

@OrangeSodaKing Where do you hear Alkan's Concerto in this? I've heard his Concerto dozens of times, as have I heard this piece multiple times, and while I recognize all the other pieces you mention I cannot find his concerto in it.

@PianoBlond "Hands Reunited" from op. 76

i am not sure.. i took this from a youtube user, who wrote the title in japanese.. luckily i found it by chance.. i think, i have the video in my favorite.. you can contact the person if you need to know anything..

This actually sounds so hard

@EtrofOnaip The perfomer with most technique that ever lived.

Can I buy this somewhere? I fell in love with it.

@coryswaycool not sure about 2:21 but there are many alkan themes in here. 0:06 the symphony finale op.39/4, always accompanying. 0:12 in the right hand the grand etude op. 76 these two are the most prominent themes the piece is built around. 1:14 Festin d'Esope op. 39/12 1:43 again grand etude, is this called the recapitulation? it's a small center of peace in the storm. 2:21 ?? and probably others i've missed!

@1980NewWave I personally think the left octaves are the easiest part. Then again I presume we all have unusual foci of strength and weaknesses.

i think this is actualy a midi piece...i'm a little confuse about it...this sound to perfect...

@alkanian I AM MORE THAN ECSTATIC TO HEAR THAT!!! post here, ya!

@OrangeSodaKing oh, didn't see you posted about quotes already. where's the concerto 1st movement? and you missed 1:13 festin d'esope.

@Zebeldarebel. If you don't feel like messaging rvn10rvn17, there is a torrent on google that has this sheet music.

it have alkan op39no7 ,no12and op76no 3's theme

he said he was recording them all for hyperion in 2010

Finale op39 + Festin d' Esope + Chemin de Fer? what else?

@OrangeSodaKing Hey where's the Concerto excerpt?

Where about do you hear the concerto part? I don't think I've noticed it

HAMELIN will be releasing his etudes album this coming September! Finally we all can listen to this etude by the composer himself.. check out hypeion (dot) com for more info or the ads from user 'madlovba2'.. it should be in the video response! Happy World Cup 2010 everyone!

What kind of MIDI software could have "played" that in such a humanly way ? By the way, why is it titled as Marc-André Hamelin ?

No problem.

@1980NewWave Me too))

I must play it! Please, please-please-please, can you send me the score?

@123eldest Nevermind I read your other comment^^

@rvn10rvn17 Get a plane to Boston, bring a cup of tea and ask Hamelin a copy of the etude :D

A clear reference to 20 ans

does anyone know the name for the piece around 2:30? so beautiful♡

i don't really know what you mean.. what r u trying to say?

3:07

Look at the comments you added at the beginning... they are like telling whoever is watching the video to "APOLOGIZE" for the bad timing instead of like "I APOLOGIZE FOR THE BAD PAGE TIMING". It's okay anyway.

can you please please pleaaaaase send me the sheet music i couldnt find it anywhere it would be really great thx

rvn10rvn17, I am very sorry... I don't know for what reason but I'm just following the instructions you gave at the beginning. You clearly said "APOLOGIZE FOR THE BAD PAGE TIMING"---> I'm sorry!

@rvn10rvn17 thats too much work for me... but surely the one who made this vid from the begining must have a midi file of it?

@nicke1126 no idea.. one way, get a music writing program like finale/sibelius.. write every single note, convert to midi.. that's what comes to my mind.. any idea people?

will be nice actually see and hear Hammelin playing this etude...not a computer....

You can easily find it on the internet.

When Liszt and Cziffra had a kid...

Best part of the piece: 1:45

where can i get the midi to this piece? please ?

아름답다 ㅠㅠ

@rvn10rvn17 ok, i shall. thanks =)

@PJinBston Yes it does, in order to criticise one must have knowledge on what his criticising. And explain to me why they are obscure then, specially Gabriel Pierné and Alkan, try listening to Pierné's piano concertos before saying anything about him.

You can't really comprehend the musical genius behind Hamelin's arrangement of this until you start learning how to play it. I've caught little subtleties in this piece while learning it I didn't catch when I just listened to it. This is by far the hardest thing I have ever attempted learning. Haha.

you'll get bored someday.. i used to like Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brillante Op. 22 so much that I listened to that around 100x in 3 days time.. and this is just a midi.. let's just wait for someone good enough to play and post it here or maybe, hamelin himself..

If you like Alkan's music, check out two of my remakes on alkan's grande sonata.

is this edited? this sounds inhuman :O!

whoever needs the score, just email me WITH the email address.. no trading or whatsoever!

impresionante.....solo me sale esa palabra...jaja

I think that this song is play midi

Does anyone know what the theme at 1:44 is from?

低評価した人の気持ちがわからないなあｗ この曲好きだからいつも聴きにきてるよ☆

@OrangeSodaKing Me too lol

ya, converted to mp3..

I think the only possible way to play this etude is without feeling anyway...

@nicke1126 he/she/they should try asking the user DALI4280, the video is in japanese (4:07)