Hamelin shares ghostly tales and technical wizardry at Library of Congress
By Charles T. Downey
Every few years, for a couple of decades now, Marc-André Hamelin has appeared in the area with a new program of unexpected and often astoundingly difficult music. The streak continued Friday night when the Canadian-born virtuoso gave a daring recital at the Library of Congress, centered on one of the pinnacles of the 20th century, the Piano Sonata No. 2 (“Concord, Mass., 1840-60”) of Charles Ives.