Title: uniquely exciting and rare
Review: The program is irresistible for the alkan beethoven concoction and op 76, and the balakirev chopin transcription. I'm no judge of anyone's playing of medtner, but i think hamelin should probably leave busoni alone, unless he takes a fancy to one or other bach arrangement (which i can imagine hamelin DOESN'T fancy). The strange thing is that hamelin's studio recordings of other alkan (i have his op 39 concerto and symphony) come off dead to me (fast, blurry...unconcerned and even unaware), and so i wonder if this has to do with the venue: hamelin needs to be recorder live.
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