Is there anything Marc-André Hamelin can’t do? In a recording career that now spans nearly four decades, the Canadian pianist has handled everything from Mozart sonatas to presentations of Ives, Ornstein, Feldman, and Rzewski. He has championed lesser-known names like Alkan, Henselt, and Medtner, and even offered a full-length album of his own compositions.
His latest release, Found Objects / Sound Objects, showcases his immense range. Hamelin performs works by seven composers, from John Cage to Frank Zappa to himself. Some of it is impressively difficult – the arrangement of Zappa’s ‘Ruth is Sleeping’ was originally made for two pianists, not one – but he has it all comfortably under his fingers. The virtuosity is…

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