Alkan: Piano Music, Volume 1: 12 Etudes, Op. 35
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Composer: Charles-Valentin AlkanPerformer: Bernard Ringeissen
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- I. Etude in A major
- II. Etude in D major
- III. Etude in G major
- IV. Etude in C major
- V. Etude in F major (Allegro barbaro)
- VI. Etude in B flat major
- VII. Etude in E flat major
- VIII. Etude in A flat major
- IX. Etude in C sharp major
- X. Etude in G flat major
- XI. Etude in B major
- XII. Etude in E major
Music reviews of Alkan: Piano Music, Volume 1: 12 Etudes, Op. 35
Music Review: Amen - great pieces
Rating: 5 Stars
Tacky (the guy below me) said just about everything there is to say about this CD but I would like to add one other thing. As well as #7, etudes #10 and #11 are two of the greatest Romantic-era pieces I have ever heard. #10 will leave you stunned, I guarantee it. The ending might disappoint on first hearing, but once the meaning becomes clear, it is as powerful as any. Listen a second and a third time. #11 is the best possible answer to #10, an uplifting but never pretentious piece. Why more pianists don't play these two pieces consecutively in concert baffles me.
A lot of these etudes are great kind of in the same way that Mozart and Haydn are great (although the musical style is very different). Sometimes (the key word is sometimes) the music isn't necessarily the deepest thing you've ever heard, but its compositional prowess and genius and the sense of inspiration is so impressive that you can't help but appreciate the music. Same story here. 7, 10 and 11 stand out for emotional power and depth, but COMPOSITIONALLY just about all of these are masterpieces, in terms of never losing steam, always displaying a constant flow of musical innovation, etc. Far more inspired than most of Liszt's etudes in my opinion.
Description of Alkan: Piano Music, Volume 1: 12 Etudes, Op. 35
Bernard Ringeissen has the big technique and stylistic empathy to deliver outstanding performances of Alkan's weird and wonderful piano music. His well-received Alkan series on Marco Polo is now being reissued on Naxos, whose budget price makes it an even more desirable acquisition. Ringeissen plays with the energy necessary to make the music come alive. He's no Marc-Andr? Hamelin, whose Alkan recordings are unchallenged, as we can hear in Le Festin d'Esope, which opens the program. But few pianists are in Hamelin's league, and Ringeissen shines in the hourlong Op. 35 Etudes, a dozen pieces exploring the major keys. Some are short studies; others are tone poems for keyboard, such as the 7th Etude, a description of a village fire. The 5th Etude is titled Allegro barbaro, published in 1847, well over half-a-century before Bartok's famous work of the same name, whose tremendous power it anticipates. A well-played program of enduring interest, it's marred only by subpar engineering. --Dan DavisGeneral CDs
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