Feinberg: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-6 / Hamelin

This album's program represents one phenomenal composer-pianist's homage to another. Marc-André Hamelin has long been a champion of the music of Russian-Soviet composer Samuil Feinberg. Hamelin's performances are sensitive to all it's shadows and anxieties while being fully equal to the prodigious technical demands.

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REVIEW:

The more notes per second – and Feinberg is up there with the notiest of them – the more the Canadian virtuoso is in his element. Hamelin does far more than tame these pianistic leviathans. He gives them momentum, character and individuality.

– Gramophone