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Alkan - Grand Sonata ’Les Quatre Ages’, etc | Brilliant Classics 93568

Alkan - Grand Sonata ’Les Quatre Ages’, etc

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93568

Barcode: 5028421935683

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 26th October 2007

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Contents

Works

Alkan
Nocturne No. 1 Op. 22

Alkan
7 Esquisses, Op. 63 - No. 2, Le staccatissimo / No. 3, Le legatissimo/ No. 21, Morituri te salutant / No. 10, Increpatio / No. 11, Les soupirs / No. 46, Le premier billet doux / No. 47, Scherzetto

Alkan
Le Festin d’Esope, Op. 39 No. 12, from “Douze Etudes dans les tons mineurs”

Alkan
Le temps qui n’est plus, Prelude Op. 31 No. 12

Alkan
Fa, Op. 38b No. 2, from “2nd Book of ’Chants’”

Alkan
Grande Sonate, “Les quatre Ages”, Op. 33

Alkan
Toccatina, Op. 75

Alkan
From “Les mois”, Op. 74 - No. 6, Promenade sur l’eau / No. 10, Gros temps

Alkan
Petite fantaisie, Op. 41 No. 2

Alkan
Petit conte

Alkan
Le tambour bat aux champs, Op. 50 No. 2

Alkan
From “Trentes chants” Suite No. 1 Op. 38 - No. 1, Assez vivement / No. 5, Agitatissimo / No. 6, Barcarolle

Alkan
Symphonie, for piano solo, Op. 39 Nos. 4-7

Artists

Alan Weiss (piano)

Works

Alkan
Nocturne No. 1 Op. 22

Alkan
7 Esquisses, Op. 63 - No. 2, Le staccatissimo / No. 3, Le legatissimo/ No. 21, Morituri te salutant / No. 10, Increpatio / No. 11, Les soupirs / No. 46, Le premier billet doux / No. 47, Scherzetto

Alkan
Le Festin d’Esope, Op. 39 No. 12, from “Douze Etudes dans les tons mineurs”

Alkan
Le temps qui n’est plus, Prelude Op. 31 No. 12

Alkan
Fa, Op. 38b No. 2, from “2nd Book of ’Chants’”

Alkan
Grande Sonate, “Les quatre Ages”, Op. 33

Alkan
Toccatina, Op. 75

Alkan
From “Les mois”, Op. 74 - No. 6, Promenade sur l’eau / No. 10, Gros temps

Alkan
Petite fantaisie, Op. 41 No. 2

Alkan
Petit conte

Alkan
Le tambour bat aux champs, Op. 50 No. 2

Alkan
From “Trentes chants” Suite No. 1 Op. 38 - No. 1, Assez vivement / No. 5, Agitatissimo / No. 6, Barcarolle

Alkan
Symphonie, for piano solo, Op. 39 Nos. 4-7

Artists

Alan Weiss (piano)

About

The piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) is fortunately gaining more and more recognition by today’s general public.

This eccentric pianist-composer lived the most part of his life in total reclusion, embittered by his lack of public success. He was a phenomenal pianist, the only pianist in whose presence the celebrated Franz Liszt was nervous to play!

Alkan’s piano works are of colossal substance and difficulty, earning him the nickname of “The Berlioz of the Piano”. Even today, only a handful of pianists can do justice to the fierce demands of his music. But it wouldn’t be fair to let the technical difficulties distract the listener from his truly original, personal style, full of wit, energy and deep feelings.

Alkan composed large scale works, such as a Concerto for Piano Solo, a Symphony for piano solo, the monumental “Studies in all major and minor keys” and several books of miniatures. American pianist Alan Weiss (a pupil of Leon Fleisher) has chosen a substantial selection from Alkan’s piano works, centered around two major pieces: the Sonates Les Quatre Ages and the Symphonie for Piano Solo, a technical and musical tour de force, showing Alkan’s true genius.

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