Alkan - Piano Works - Brilliant Classics: 94033 - download

Release Date: 19th Apr 2010
Catalogue No: 94033
Label: Brilliant Classics
Series: Piano Library
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Alkan: Nocturne in B, Op.22

Work length6:24

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Alan Weiss (piano)

Excerpt, Alkan: Esquisses (48), Op. 63

Work length10:27

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Alan Weiss (piano)
Recorded: 20-21 December 1989
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw 'De Vereeniging', Nijmegen, Netherlands

No. 2. Le staccatissimo

Track length1:08

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No. 3. Le legatissimo

Track length1:44

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No. 21. Morituri te salutant

Track length1:31

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No. 10. Increpatio

Track length1:34

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No. 11. Les soupirs

Track length1:40

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No. 46. Le Premier billet doux

Track length0:59

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No. 47. Scherzetto

Track length1:51

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Excerpt, Alkan: Twelve Études in the minor keys, Op. 39

Work length10:15

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Alan Weiss (piano)

12 Etudes dans les tons mineurs, Op. 39: No. 12. Le festin d'Esope

Track length10:15

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Excerpt, Alkan: Preludes (25), Op. 31

Work length1:35

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Alan Weiss (piano)

25 Preludes dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs: Op. 31, Suite No. 2: No. 12. Le temps qui n'est plus: Andante

Track length1:35

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Alkan: Deuxième recueil de chants, Op. 38

Work length3:12

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Alan Weiss (piano)

Deuxieme recueil de chants, Op. 38: No. 2. Allegretto

Track length3:12

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Alkan: Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Ages', Op. 33

Work length41:41

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Alan Weiss (piano)
Recorded: 20-21 December 1989
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw 'De Vereeniging', Nijmegen, Netherlands

I. 20 ans: Tres vite

Track length6:40

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II. 30 ans: Quasi-Faust: Assez vite

Track length15:54

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III. 40 ans: Un heureux menage (A happy household): Lentement

Track length10:39

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IV. 50 ans: Promethee enchaine (Prometheus enchained): Extremement lent

Track length8:28

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Alkan: Toccatina, Op. 75

Work length1:49

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Alan Weiss (piano)

Charles-Henri Alkan: Les mois, Op. 74

Work length5:53

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Alan Weiss (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 March 2007
Recording Venue: Hervormde Kerk, Rhoon, Netherlands

No. 6. Promenade sur l'eau

Track length2:30

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No. 10. Gros temps

Track length3:23

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Excerpt, Alkan: Trois Petites Fantaisies, Op. 41

Work length6:22

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Alan Weiss (piano)

3 Petites Fantaisies, Op. 41: No. 2. Andantino

Track length6:22

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Alkan: Petit Conte

Work length4:24

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Alan Weiss (piano)

Alkan: Le Tambour bat aux champs, Op. 50, No. 2

Work length4:40

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Alan Weiss (piano)

Alkan: Premier recueil de chants, Op. 38

Work length12:22

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Alan Weiss (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 March 2007
Recording Venue: Hervormde Kerk, Rhoon, Netherlands

No. 1. Assez vivement

Track length4:35

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No. 5. Agitatissimo

Track length3:56

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No. 6. Barcarolle

Track length3:51

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Excerpt, Alkan: Twelve Études in the minor keys, Op. 39

Work length29:29

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Recorded: 22-24 March 2007
Recording Venue: Hervormde Kerk, Rhoon, Netherlands

No. 4. Symphonie I: Allegro

Track length11:23

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No. 5. Symphonie II: Marche funebre

Track length6:42

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No. 6. Symphonie III: Menuet

Track length6:03

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No. 7. Symphonie IV: Finale

Track length5:21

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25 Preludes dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op. 31

Work length19:41

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Stanley Hoogland (piano)
Recorded: 16-18 September 2002
Recording Venue: Maria Minor, Utrecht, Netherlands

Suite No. 1: No. 1. Lentement

Track length2:20

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Suite No. 1: No. 6. Ancienne melodie de la synagogue: Andante flebile

Track length3:08

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Suite No. 2: No. 11. Un petit rien: Assez vite

Track length0:53

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Suite No. 2: No. 12. Le temps qui n'est plus: Andante

Track length1:11

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Suite No. 2: No. 13. J'etais endormie, mais mon coeur veillait...(Cantique des cantiques. 5=2): Lentement

Track length3:23

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Suite No. 2: No. 14. Rapidement

Track length2:43

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Suite No. 1: No. 8. La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer: Lentement

Track length3:47

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Suite No. 2: No. 15. Dans le genre gothique: Assez vite et avec beaucoup de grace

Track length2:16

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Les mois, Op. 74

Work length10:07

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Stanley Hoogland (piano)
Recorded: 16-18 September 2002
Recording Venue: Maria Minor, Utrecht, Netherlands

No. 1. Une nuit d'hiver

Track length4:06

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No. 10. Gros temps

Track length4:19

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No. 3. L'Opera

Track length1:42

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Excerpt, Alkan: Troisième recueil de chants, Op. 65

Work length7:21

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Stanley Hoogland (piano)
Recorded: 16-18 September 2002
Recording Venue: Maria Minor, Utrecht, Netherlands

No. 5. Horace et Lydie

Track length3:41

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No. 6. Barcarolle

Track length3:40

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Alkan: Trente Chants: Suite No. 4, Op. 67

Work length3:21

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Stanley Hoogland (piano)

Quatrieme recueil de chants, Op. 67: No. 2. Chanson de la bonne vieille

Track length3:21

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Esquisses, Op. 63

Work length18:04

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Stanley Hoogland (piano)
Recorded: 16-18 September 200
Recording Venue: Maria Minor, Utrecht, Netherlands

No. 1. La vision

Track length2:21

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No. 4. Les cloches

Track length0:53

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No. 8. Pseudo-Naivete

Track length2:00

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No. 10. Increpatio

Track length1:42

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No. 11. Les soupirs

Track length1:44

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No. 35. Musique militaire

Track length1:15

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No. 43. Notturnino-Innamorato

Track length1:58

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No. 46. Le Premier billet doux

Track length1:05

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No. 48. En songe

Track length1:18

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No. 49. Laus Deo

Track length3:48

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Adventurous piano Music of the composer in whose presence even Franz Liszt was afraid to play. Piano music ranging from the miniaturist to the gigantic.

Both modern Steinway and period Erard piano are used in this set, a fascinating way of comparison. Charles-Valentin Alkan, often called ‘the Berlioz of the piano’, that mysterious, reclusive genius of the Romantic epoch, will forever be linked in our imagination to Chopin and Liszt, both of whom caught the Parisian public’s attention to a greater extent than did Alkan.

Were they and their music more acceptable to the public due to the greater accessibility of many of their works, neither so uncompromisingly ‘difficult’ as Alkan can be in his music? These demands on the listener take the form of extending a musical idea to the limit of its development – often, in the most extreme cases (e.g. the climax of ‘Quasi-Faust’), leaving the listener feeling as if he or she had been through a hurricane. Might this tendency be traceable to his strictly orthodox Jewish heritage and schooling in Talmudic logic? With Alkan, that extraordinary pianist before whom it is said that Liszt himself felt nervous to perform, the exception, compositionally speaking, becomes the rule.

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