Alkan Piano Classics

Leonardo Pierdomenico - Beethoven: Reflections (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 15, 2021

Leonardo Pierdomenico - Beethoven: Reflections (2020)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:02:31 | 143 Mb
Classical | Label: Piano Classics

The heroic voice of the greatest pianist/composer of all, recast by two of his most virtuosic successors.

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Explorer Set - French Edition [10CDs] (2024) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 15, 2024

The second Piano Classics Explorer 10-CD set offers a wide range of rarely heard French piano repertoire.
The Piano Classics Explorer series offers valuable and attractively themed collections from its catalogue. Piano Classics was the first label to exclusively devote itself to piano music. Since its founding in 2010 it has released countless extraordinary recordings, presenting many repertoire rarities and amazing young pianists. The press has always been enthusiastic about the label’s releases and has showered many 5-star and Editor’s Choices on them.

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Andrew Yiangou - Alkan: Le Petit Concert (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 26, 2025

Andrew Yiangou - Alkan: Le Petit Concert (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 104:03 minutes | 1,68 GB
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics, Official Digital Download

Andrew Yiangou’s programme is a fascinating view into the musical world of one of the most enigmatic composers of the 19th century. On 29 April 1844 in Paris’s Salle Erard, Charles-Valentin Alkan returned to the platform after an absence of six years. Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven and Weber featured, as well as four of Alkan’s latest compositions. Two of these appear on Andrew Yiangou’s recital here – the Op.22 Nocturne and the Op.23 E minor Saltarelle. The centre piece in the programme is the misleadingly titled Sonatina in A minor, Op.61. This is a large-scale sonata of huge technical challenges.

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Charles-Valentin Alkan: Complete Piano Duos and Duets (2011) Music

Posted by Su_Lihua at Feb. 28, 2011

The piano works of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–88) 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 excitement and Alkan’s trademark eccentric originality.

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Nocturnes for Piano [11CDs] (2025) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Oct. 21, 2025

The largest collection of piano nocturnes on CD, celebrating the art of the romantic piano song without words. Over a century of repertoire in all modern recordings, plus a new booklet essay exploring the history and context of the nocturne.

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50 Most Famous Pieces Of Classical Music eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Free butterfly at May 12, 2021

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Vincenzo Maltempo, Mark Viner, Alessandro Deljavan, Orchestra di Padova el del Veneto - Alkan: Complete Etudes (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 12, 2020

Vincenzo Maltempo, Mark Viner, Alessandro Deljavan, Orchestra di Padova el del Veneto - Alkan: Complete Etudes (2020)
FLAC tracks | 04:11:41 | 739 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Reclusive and eccentric, the French pianist– composer Charles-Valentin Alkan was also undoubtedly one of the greatest pianists who ever lived, and a composer who, like his friend and fellow virtuoso Liszt, pushed the boundaries of what his instrument, and human pianism, could achieve. Again like Liszt, he composed music that was not merely flashy and difficult to play it tapped a deep comprehension of music history and theory, a flair for the lyrical and the dramatic and of course a vast imagination.

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Vincenzo Maltempo - Frédéric Chopin: Complete Nocturnes (2024) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Oct. 19, 2024

Any new recording of the complete Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin rouses the interest: in the field of countless existing recordings, does the pianist have something new to say? Inspired by but not imitating the great masters of the Golden Piano Age, Vincenzo Maltempo presents the Nocturnes as dramatic tone poems with a strong narrative, based on the art of rhetoric and Belcanto. As a means to the expression of his ideas, he found an 1888 Steinway grand with an exceptionally wide dynamic range and singing tone. The result is an enervating and moving journey through these eternal masterpieces!

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Mark Viner, Vincenzo Maltempo, Sofia Andreoli, Vittoria Quartararo, Jacopo Salvatori - French Piano Sonatas (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 31, 2024

Mark Viner, Vincenzo Maltempo, Sofia Andreoli, Vittoria Quartararo, Jacopo Salvatori - French Piano Sonatas (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:45:36 | 700 / 515 Mb
Genre: Classical

Mark Viner is recognized as one of the most exciting British concert pianists of his generation and is becoming increasingly well known for his bold championing of unfamiliar pianistic terrain. He studied at the Purcell School of Music and the Royal College where his principal teachers included Tessa Nicholson and Niel Immelman. Having won first prize at the C.V. Alkan – P. J. G. Zimmerman International Piano Competition in Athens in 2012, his international engagements have flourished, he has been broadcast on German Radio and been invited to the Oxford Lieder Festival, Cheltenham Music Festival, ProPiano Hamburg and Husum Rarities of Piano Music in Germany. Last year he was invited to play for the Prince of Wales’s visit to his hometown of Oxford. Due to his close association with unjustly neglected areas of the piano literature, he was recently elected Chairman of the Alkan Society.

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Vincenzo Maltempo - Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Complete (2CD) (2016) Music

Posted by Domestos at Feb. 19, 2018

Vincenzo Maltempo - Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Complete (2CD) (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 244.57 Mb (CD1) + 238.14 Mb (CD2) | 2:30:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Piano Classics - PCLD0108

Many music lovers and keyboard enthusiasts still believe that Liszt was a light-weight composer, given to bouts of bombast and virtuoso writing for its own sake. There is more than a grain of truth to that, but there's more to Liszt than many of his detractors realize, even in these Rhapsodies which are largely viewed as uneven creations, that at their best feature colorful music of relatively little depth. Yes, there is a good measure of confection in them – mostly good confection though – but there's also much solid Liszt in these scores. Nos. 2 and 6, for all their flash and bravura, are well crafted, brilliant pieces. #3 is not popular but also quite a fine work, as are Nos. 5, 9, 14, 15 and, despite its structural flaws, 12. I personally have great fondness for the late Rhapsodies, Nos. 16 – 19, which are all somewhat darker in mood and less virtuosic on the whole.

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