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Join Alkan Society Chairman Mark Viner and the Society’s Social Media Editor Bradley Berg for a fascinating conversation about the repertoire on Mark’s latest Alkan CD, “Character Pieces and Grotesqueries,” from the Piano Classics label.

Join Alkan Society Chairman, Mark Viner, and Alkan Society Social Media Editor, Bradley Berg, as they discuss Mark's recent recording of some Alkan rarities: 11 Pieces dans le style religieux et un transcription du Messie de Handel, Op. 72, Étude alla barbaro, and Étude WoO in A minor. All featured recordings can be heard on the Alkan Society TH-cam channel and purchased from the Piano Classics...

Goldstone and Clemmow, piano duet 00:00 No. 1 in A-flat Major: Allegro 08:31 No. 2 in C Minor - E-flat Major: Allegro Moderato 14:46 No. 3 in B-flat Major: Modérément NOTE: It is not always possible to exactly align the primo and secondo parts onto one screen due to them being published as separate parts on opposing pages. Every effort has been made to align them where possible for the viewer. ...

Mark Viner, piano Courtesy of Piano Classics. Purchase the album here: www.piano-classics.com/articles/a/alkan-11-pièces-dans-le-style-religieux-op72-étude-alla-barbaro/ 00:00 - No. 1 Tempo guistissimo 02:50 - No. 2 Andantino 08:08 - No. 3 Quasi-Adagio [fugue] 12:05 - No. 4 Assez doucement 15:38 - No. 5 Lentement 19:02 - No. 6 Majestueusement 22:19 - No. 7 Molto Moderato 27:10 - No. 8 Assez vit...

Mark Viner, piano Courtesy of Piano Classics. Purchase the album here: www.piano-classics.com/articles/a/alkan-11-pièces-dans-le-style-religieux-op72-étude-alla-barbaro/ The discovery of the Etude Alla-Barbaro came as a complete surprise when it was stumbled upon by the French-Canadian pianist, Marc-André Hamelin (b.1961) on the 14th August, 1995, within the archive of Raymond Lewenthal (1923-1...

Mark Viner, piano Courtesy of Piano Classics. Purchase the album here: www.piano-classics.com/articles/a/alkan-11-pièces-dans-le-style-religieux-op72-étude-alla-barbaro/ This Etude appeared in 1840 in the second part of a large three-part publication entitled Encyclopédie du Pianiste Compositeur by Alkan’s former professor, Pierre Zimmerman (1785-1853), comprising elementary instruction, exerci...

Vincenzo Maltempo, piano *NOTE: Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) originally composed the music in this video for the pédalier or pedal-piano (a piano with foot-pedals in addition to the standard keyboard). In the early twentieth century, the Portuguese composer José Vianna da Motta (1868-1948) transcribed much of Alkan’s pédalier music into piano duo, duet, and solo arrangements. The score fe...

Op. 38b, Deuxième recueil de chants (1857) No. 1 Hymne in E major (0:00) No. 2 Allegretto ("Fa") in A minor (5:10) No. 3 Chant de Guerre in A major (8:26) No. 4 Procession-Nocturne in A major (12:10) No. 5 Andantino in F♯ minor (15:56) No. 6 Barcarolle en chœur in G minor (21:46) Stephanie McCallum, piano Album available from Toccata Classics: toccataclassics.com/product/alkan-recueils-de-chant...

Original Video: th-cam.com/video/jb_vz8LTpvw/w-d-xo.html Performed by Laura Snyderman and John Nothaft. Text: Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus. [As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God]. Music: imslp.org/wiki/2e_verset_du_41e_Psaume_(Alkan,_Charles-Valentin) Join the Alkan Society: www.alkansociety.org/Join-us/join-us.html

Alkan - Impromptu sur le Choral de Luther ‘Un fort rempart est Notre Dieu’, Op. 69 (arr. for two pianos by Roger Smalley) Goldstone and Clemmow, piano duo *NOTE* The sheet music in this video is from Alkan's original version for pedal-piano or piano three hands. Smalley's version for two pianos, heard in this recording, features many doubled octaves along with other minor changes, but the overa...

Mark Viner, piano Courtesy of Piano Classics, recording available at: www.piano-classics.com/articles/a/alkan-paraphrases-marches-symphonie-for-solo-piano-op39/ Trois Marches quasi da cavalleria, Op.37 No.1 Molto allegro (0:00) No.2 Allegro vivace* (5:08) No.3 Allegro* (9:43) *First recordings Alkan’s Trois Marches quasi da cavalleria, Op.37 - (Three Cavalry marches) appeared in 1857 when they ...

José Raúl López, piano "[The piano's] sonorities are wide-ranging if one knows how to obtain them through various methods of attack, through the intelligent use of certain fingerings, hand-crossing, etc. It is this instinct, this tact which guides the intelligent musician when he wants to make the piano reproduce the great magical accents of an orchestra and a choir; which suggests to him at on...