Groundbreaking performance of such an underrated masterpiece.
The piece, Szymanowsky’s sonata 2, is a long composition full of extreme technical and musical difficulties, polyrhyms, and requires immense stamina, and here Hamelin pulls it off amazingly. It is broken into two movements, and a fugue, ending with an explosive and beautiful coda. As Metallico put it, “This must be one of the most brilliant, majestic, mature, and glorious endings to any solo piano piece.”

Favourite interpretation of this piece (followed by Eric Xi Xin Liang and Martin Roscoe).




Performance in 2002, Kioi Hall Tokyo Japan. Recording used:

   • Hamelin's Szymanowski/Hamelin recital...  

Score from IMSLP
The score is much more fluid, and you will see no scrolling, just quick transition between pages. Used photo app to make this video and took screenshots of the pages and flipped through them with the audio.


Hope you enjoy and thank you very much for listening!