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Originally Posted by skaltezon
Not many -- the few I've heard sound Bach-like but plodding and without the sparkling precision of JS music.
I do like CPE's 'Solfeggietto in C minor' , which Marc-André Hamelin turned into fuel for the fabulous Ampico Bösendorfer Grand. It's amazing what this piano can do with the right music:
Hamelin's 'Solfeggietto a Cinque' for player piano
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Hamelin's 'Solfeggietto a Cinque' for player piano made me curious about his other compositions, so I listened to a few more. The first, below, stood out for me because, being very delicate, it so much the opposite of his Solfeggietto in C minor for the player piano:
Marc-André Hamelin - Berceuse, in tempore belli
"Valse Irritation" was a second piece that caught my attention, because Hamelin composed it to express his annoyance at ringing cell phones
. Hamelin apparently transcribed the Nokia ringtone when making this composition, which he "is known to play in concerts when he hears a cell phone go off." I like to hear about the fuel that inspired him to compose, whether the fuel was CPE Bach's music or Nokia's ringtone.
Marc-André Hamelin - Valse Irritation d'après Nokia