Title: Superhuman pianism, but human Scriabin...
Product review: Hamelin's piano technique and quality of pianism is absolutely unbelievable. Just watch the japanese documentary "supervirtuoso" - you wont believe this guy's mastery of the instrument. In a "greatest technique" argument with people claiming for Pollini, Horowitz, Volodos or whatever, just pull out a Hamelin recording - and the argument is over. Also his choice of interesting rarely-played composers is admirable.In my opinion though, the Scriabin performances are not in the league of the Russian school recordings. Scriabin's complex music takes a musician of genius to play, and paranormal technique is not enough here. Hamelin of course is a great musician, but this recording is only good as an intruduction or for novice- Scriabinites. If you want to hear serious Scriabin listen to Sofronitsky (3,4,5,8,9), Horowitz (3!,9,10), Sokolov (3!,9!!!) and also Zhukov has a great recording of #9.
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