Timings ought not be a harbinger of performance quality, yet Igor Do Amaral’s unusually protracted ones throughout Alkan’s Symphony for Solo Piano give fair warning.
Igor Levit recorded the present album as an artistic reaction to the October 7th attacks on Israel and the current rise in anti-Semitism worldwide, designating
A German pianist with Iranian roots, Schaghajegh Nosrati first came to my attention through her 2015 recording of Bach’s The Art of Fugue, a rather
The fourth through the seventh of Alkan’s Twelve Etudes in the Minor Keys Op. 39 comprise his Symphony for Solo Piano, while Etudes 8 through
Vincenzo Maltempo’s Alkan recordings have been very successful, and this
Until now the recording of choice for the Alkan sonata
I first heard pianist Vincenzo Maltempo via his 2012 Alkan release that included truly impressive performances of the Op. 33 Sonata Le Quatre Ages and
The excellent booklet notes by our very own Jed Distler
What a wonderful idea: Here’s a program that features transcriptions of Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas along with original works that use the sonatas as a
Alkan’s Concerto for solo piano (a/k/a movements eight, nine, and ten of the composer’s Twelve Etudes in the Minor Keys Op. 39) has long been