Alkan Piano Classics

Alkan, Piano Works Music

Posted by ysov at Dec. 15, 2009

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Mark Viner - Alkan: Paraphrases, Marches & Symphonie for Solo Piano, Op. 39 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 16, 2021

Mark Viner - Alkan: Paraphrases, Marches & Symphonie for Solo Piano, Op. 39 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 71:36 minutes | 1,11 GB
Classical | Label: Piano Classics, Official Digital Download

British pianist Mark Viner continues his complete Alkan-cycle with the 4th volume, containing one of the most extraordinary piano works of the 19th century, the Symphony for piano solo. It is one of Alkan's most darkly impassioned conceptions, its declamatory rhetoric, passionate outbursts and towering climaxes all bound by a tightly organised structure. The sometimes ten note chords, thick, chordal tremoli and volleys of double octaves create a truly symphonic sound spectrum.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: Paraphrases, Marches & Symphonie for Solo Piano, Op. 39 (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 30, 2021

Mark Viner - Alkan: Paraphrases, Marches & Symphonie for Solo Piano, Op. 39 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:11:58 | 235 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

The latest volume in a revelatory Alkan series from an English pianist with a string of critically acclaimed albums of rare repertoire from the Golden Age of the piano virtuoso to his credit.Perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the history of music as a whole, let alone the 19th century, Charles-Valentin Alkan remains one of the most intriguing and alluring names among the pantheon of pianist-composers.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: 11 Pièces dans le style religieux, Op. 72, Étude Alla-Barbaro (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 3, 2024

Mark Viner - Alkan: 11 Pièces dans le style religieux, Op. 72, Étude Alla-Barbaro (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 160 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | 01:00:32
Classical | Label: Piano Classics

The latest volume in a series which is rapidly accumulating critical superlatives. Described by International Piano as ‘one of the most gifted pianists of his generation’, Mark Viner is steadily gaining a reputation as one of Britain’s leading concert pianists; his unique blend of individual artistry combined with his bold exploration of the byways of the piano literature garnering international renown.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: 11 Pièces dans le style religieux, Op. 72, Étude Alla-Barbaro (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 3, 2024

Mark Viner - Alkan: 11 Pièces dans le style religieux, Op. 72, Étude Alla-Barbaro (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 60:32 minutes | 955 MB
Classical | Label: Piano Classics, Official Digital Download

The latest volume in a series which is rapidly accumulating critical superlatives. Described by International Piano as ‘one of the most gifted pianists of his generation’, Mark Viner is steadily gaining a reputation as one of Britain’s leading concert pianists; his unique blend of individual artistry combined with his bold exploration of the byways of the piano literature garnering international renown.

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Mark Viner - Charles-Valentin Alkan: Complete Piano Musok, Vol. 6 - Character Pieces and Grotesqueries (2023) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 17, 2024

Mark Viner’s survey of the complete solo piano music of Alkan continues to turn up discoveries and reveal previously little-known or misunderstood sides of a protean figure in late French romanticism. Viner himself regards Alkan as ‘the most enigmatic figure in the history of music as a whole’.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 22, 2023

Mark Viner - Alkan: Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 77:45 minutes | 1,2 GB
Classical | Label: Piano Classics, Official Digital Download

Mark Viner’s survey of the complete solo piano music of Alkan continues to turn up discoveries and reveal previously little-known or misunderstood sides of a protean figure in late French romanticism. Viner himself regards Alkan as ‘the most enigmatic figure in the history of music as a whole’.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 22, 2023

Mark Viner - Alkan: Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 233 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:45
Classical | Label: Piano Classics

Mark Viner’s survey of the complete solo piano music of Alkan continues to turn up discoveries and reveal previously little-known or misunderstood sides of a protean figure in late French romanticism. Viner himself regards Alkan as ‘the most enigmatic figure in the history of music as a whole’.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: 25 Préludes dans les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op. 31 (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 30, 2019

Mark Viner - Alkan: 25 Préludes dans les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op. 31 (2019)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 00:58:57 | 174 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

First published in 1847, these preludes form a highly original set of pieces, effectively Alkan’s first foray into the genre of cyclic shorter pieces. The set stands aside from so many in its consistently reflective and introspective approach to a genre recently redefined by Chopin. The key sequence guides us through all the major and minor keys, but instead of settling for all 24 major and minor tonalities, Alkan comes full circle for a twenty-fifth and final C major prelude to complete the set.

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Mark Viner - Alkan: Grande Sonate, Op. 33, 3 Morceaux dans le genre Pathétique, Op. 15 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 10, 2020

Mark Viner - Alkan: Grande Sonate, Op. 33, 3 Morceaux dans le genre Pathétique, Op. 15 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:07:29 | 207 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

British pianist Mark Viner continues his Alkan project with a new recording of the towering Grande Sonate Op. 33 “Les quatre âges” (in which Alkan musically describes the several stages of Man’s Life in 4 movements, from exuberant youth to tragic old age), and the “3 Morceaux dans le genre pathétique”, three highly original tone poems, one evoking the howling winter wind, one a love poem and the third “Morte’ evoking a haunted cemetery, uncannily pre-echoing Ravel’s Le Gibet.

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