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Alkan: Grande Sonate "Les Quatre Ages"; Symphonie pour Piano Solo / Vincenzo Maltempo, piano

1 CD / Piano Classics / 2012-05-05

Works: Charles-Valentin Alkan: Grande Sonate "Les Quatre Ages", for piano in D major, Op. 33; Symphonie, for solo piano in C minor, Op. 39/4-7; Trois grandes études pour les mains séparées et...
Performers: Maltempo, Vincenzo

Any new recording of Charles-Valentin Alkan is an event, which hopefully widens the public appreciation of this still unknown genius of the French Romantic period....continue...
Recording information: I Musicanti Studio, Rome, Italy (11/2011)....continue...

Brilliant Classics Piano Library: Alkan

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Charles-Valentin Alkan: Nocturne for Piano no 1, Op. 22; Esquisses; Le festin d'Esope, variations for piano in E minor (Études dans tous les tons mineurs no 12), Op. 3; Preludes (25) for Piano, ...
Performers: Hoogland, Stanley; Weiss, Alan

Charles Valentin Morhange who adopted the surname Alkan, is surely one of the most eccentric figures in 19th century classical music. His music presents huge...continue...

Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano, etc / Marc-André Hamelin

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-07-01

Works: Charles-Valentin Alkan: Symphonie, for solo piano in C minor, Op. 39/4-7; Salut, cendre du pauvre!, paraphrase for piano in B flat major, Op. 45; Alleluia, for piano in F major, Op. 25; Super flumina...
Performers: Hamelin, Marc-André [Piano]

"Alkan's 'Symphony' for solo piano is far more difficult to bring off than Marc-Andre Hamelin makes it sound... He steamrollers through the scherzo, which is...continue...

Alkan & Magnard / Stephanie McCallum

1 CD / Tall Poppies / 1998-03-01

Works: Charles-Valentin Alkan: Symphonie, for solo piano in C minor, Op. 39/4-7; Chanson de la Folle Au Bord de la Mer, prelude for piano in A flat minor (Préludes dans tous les ton; Albéric Magna...
Performers: McCallum, Stephanie

During the period of almost exactly one hundred years between Alkan's birth and Magnard's death, each composer was both nurtured and neglected by the city...continue...