Alkan - Complete Piano Duos & Duets
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0070
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 21st February 2011
Contents
About
He was a close friend (and next-door neighbour) of Chopin and George Sand, and often shared the platform with Chopin as well as Sigismund Thalberg and Franz Liszt.
It was around the time of Chopin’s death that he began to devote himself to composition and effectively withdrew from public life, acquiring a reputation as a misanthropic recluse.
The circumstances of his death are obscure, although the traditional account that he was crushed by a falling bookcase while reaching for a volume of the Talmud was probably invented by his son.
As a composer, Busoni considered him to stand on a par with Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Brahms as one of the five greatest composers for the piano since Beethoven.
His works for piano are among the most demanding ever written – but they can also gleam with a fierce joy and twinkle with mischievous humour, so it’s hardly surprising to find his works for piano duet bubbling with freewheeling energy. The two works for pedal piano, transcribed here for two pianos by Roger Smalley, show a more solemn side to this devoutly religious composer, though they, too, have their own charge of Alkan’s trademark eccentric originality.
First recordings of:
- Benedictus, Op.54 (transcribed for two pianos by Roger Smalley)
- Saltarelle, Op.47, for piano duet
- Finale, Op.17, for piano duet
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