Szymanowski Sonata No. 2 - Hamelin (Score)

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/...
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!

[@nickm6928]

8:09 for Mvt. 2
20:59 for fugue

[@birdlandbill7867]

Thank you for this amazing performance with the score perfectly tracking. Wish Mr. Hamelin had recorded this in studio. I saw him perform Hammerklavier and he is an astonishingly polished, brilliant performer. One scarcely believes what one is seeing/hearing emerge from the keyboard.

[@Lircking]

damn

[@LM-oz2sc]

25:00

[@user-wb7pz8uq4o]

After hearing Hamelin's masterful interpretation of Szymanowski's second sonata, methinks Rachmaninoff would definitely have given Szymanowski a grade of 5 with five pluses(on a scale of 0-5, with 5 being the highest score).