Rachel Lee ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>For Gigantic encores, I suppose one need not look farther then the Vienna
>New year's tradition of the three encores...that goes on a bit and one
>could say is far more anticipated then the main concert, at least by this
>Bavarian!

I have a videotaped recording of Marc Andre Hamelin's June 1996 (?) Merkin
Hall Concert at which he played (inter alia) Alkan's Concerto.  The encores
which followed went on for over half an hour..

Deryk Barker
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