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Alkan: Grande Sonata

Vincenzo Maltempo | Format: Audio CD
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Listen  1. Grande sonate "les quatre ages" 20 ans 6:33£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Grande sonate "les quatre ages" 30 ans12:41£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Grande sonate "les quatre ages" 40 ans13:14£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Grande sonate "les quatre ages" 50 ans 8:42£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Symphonie pour piano solo: allegro10:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Symphonie pour piano solo: marche funebre 7:46£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Symphonie pour piano solo: menuet 5:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Symphonie pour piano solo: finale 4:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Trois grandes etudes pour les mains separees et reunies: etude no. 3 5:16£0.89  Buy MP3 

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Any new recording of Charles-Valentin Alkan is an event, which hopeully widens the public appreciation of this still unknown genius of the French Romantic period. After unsuccessful efforts at a brilliant concert career, Alkan went into reclusion, concentrating on teaching and composing his totally unique oeuvre, mainly written for solo piano. One of the greatest virtuosos of his time (even Liszt was nervous in his presence) he wrote piano music of the most colossal proportions, scope and difficulty. This new recording by the young and extraordinarily gifted young Italian, Vincenzo Maltempo, brings together two of Alkan's masterworks: the 'Grande Sonata' Les Quatre Ages (in which Alkan musically describes the several stages of Man s Life, from exuberant youth to tragic old age), and the 'Symphonie pour piano solo', a dramatic four movement work in Classical/Romantic style. As an encore we have the fiendishly difficult 'Etude for two hands unisono', a pianistic tour de force.

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Grande sonate "Les quatre âges", op.33 - Symphonie pour piano solo - Etude, op.76 n°3 / Vincenzo Maltempo, piano

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible music making and virtuosity 4 May 2013
By Ethan James McCollum - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
This disc surprised me with such wonderful performances of these difficult piano works. I honestly think these recordings fit right alongside those of Ronald Smith, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Jack Gibbons and Raymond Lewenthal. Maltempo is still a bit on the young side, but that does not seem evident in his playing: it is full of maturity, expertise in the style, and a complete technical control, with plenty of virtuosity to spare. I highly recommend this CD for any lover of Alkan's music, or great piano music in general.
5.0 out of 5 stars Subtlety Abounds! 3 May 2013
By Bruce Bush - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Of all the Alkan renderings I have heard live and recorded, the music on this Vincenzo Maltempo CD is the most masterfully executed and displays the deepest understanding and most subtle execution of the composer's eccentric musical thoughts. Maltempo does not merely dazzle with technique (as do many Alkan interpreters); he makes these compositions sing. Alkan's often-abrupt shifts in dynamics, tempo and tone seem to tempt virtuoso pianists to show off their speed and power, but this young performer is obviously more concerned with revealing the sense of beauty and depth of feeling Alkan poured into his still-avant-garde piano compositions.

The recording is not one of those where it sounds like your head is inside the piano, but rather of one listening in a warm salon. Therefore, I like to listen to this CD at a high volume level, the better to bring out the subtleties of Maltempo's complete control.
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