Alkan Piano Classics

Marina Tarasova & Ivan Sokolov - French Cello Sonatas, Vol. 3: Alkan & Farrenc (2025) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 3, 2025

Marina Tarasova & Ivan Sokolov - French Cello Sonatas, Vol. 3: Alkan & Farrenc (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 235 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 135 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:35
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

This third instalment in Brilliant Classics’ French Cello Sonatas series features the phenomenal composer Louise Farrenc (1804–1875), who is enjoying a much deserved revival amid contemporary focus on women composers, and the enigmatic and formidable Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), renowned for his complex compositional language and extreme piano virtuosity.

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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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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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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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Bart van Oort - Frédéric Chopin & John Field: Nocturnes (Complete) [4CDs] (2006) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at April 9, 2024

The Nocturne is a romantic piano piece in which a nocturnal, romantic atmosphere is expressed, where perfumed melodies float serenely over a calmly murmuring accompaniment.-Credit where credit is due: the inventor of the genre is the Irish composer John Field, who made fame as a pianist of his own works. It needed the genius of Chopin to perfect the genre to the highest artistic level: Chopin's Nocturnes are the archetypes of romantic piano music, and count among his best loved works.

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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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Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard - Four Hands for France: Music for Piano Duet (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 17, 2021

Stephanie McCallum & Erin Helyard - Four Hands for France: Music for Piano Duet (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:48 minutes | 1,07 GB
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics, Official Digital Download

Playing four-hands piano was both vital in the dissemination of music in the nineteenth century and also a popular domestic activity. The French composers recorded here span the Romantic century, from the salon charm of Chaminade and Massenet and the virtuosity of Alkan’s wild dance to the innocence of the family music-room in pieces by Chausson, Godard and Ropartz. The original 1853 Parisian Erard piano on which this recording was made combines warmth with bell-like clarity, because of its straight stringing, allowing it to produce a surprising variety of appealing, expressive textures.

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Florian Uhlig - Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 10 - Schumann & the Sonata II (2017) Music

Posted by Pisulik at July 4, 2017

Florian Uhlig - Schumann: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 10 - Schumann & the Sonata II (2017)
Classical, Piano | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:05:56 | 151 MB
Label: haenssler CLASSIC

With generally brisk tempos, a mixture of daring and wit, and a keen sense to balance emotion and intellect, pianist Florian Uhlig stands as a sort of cross between Vladimir Horowitz and Alfred Brendel. He has impressed concert audiences with his bold and incisive interpretations in a range of repertory, while on disc he has scored notable success in his traversal of the complete works for piano and orchestra by Schumann and Shostakovich. He possesses a technique that allows him to play the most challenging keyboard fare, from works by Liszt and Chopin to music of Prokofiev and Rachmaninov.

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Eden Walker - Reger: Bach Variations, Op. 81, Träume am Kamin (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at May 27, 2024

Eden Walker - Reger: Bach Variations, Op. 81, Träume am Kamin (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:16 minutes | 1,06 GB
Classical | Label: Piano Classics, Official Digital Download

A new recording of two major Reger cycles, by a fast-emerging British piano talent.

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