Vincenzo Maltempo -Grande Sonate -Piano Classics CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 20 Ans (TRÈS Vite)

1.2 30 Ans: Quasi Faust (Assez Vite)

1.3 40 Ans: Un Heureux Ménage (Lentement)

1.4 50 Ans: Prométhée Enchaîné (Assez Lentement)

1.5 Allegro (Allegro Moderato)

1.6 Marche Funèbre (Andantino)

1.7 Menuet (Tempo Di Minuetto)

1.8 Finale (Presto)

1.9 Etude No. 3: Mouvement Semblable Et Perpetual

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Alkan: Sonata, Symphonie by Various Artists, released 7 May 2012. This version of Alkan: Sonata, Symphonie comes as a 1xCD. - VINCENZO MALTEMPO

Any new recording of Charles-Valentin Alkan is an event, which hopes to widen the public appreciation of this still unknown genius of the French Romantic period. After his unsuccessful efforts at a brilliant concert career, Alkan went into reclusion, concentrating on teaching and composing his totally unique oeuvre mainly written for piano solo. One of the greatest virtuosos of his time (even Franz Liszt was nervous to play 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 masterworks: The Grande Sonata "Les Quatre Ages" (in which Alkan musically describes the stages of a 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 the fiendishly difficult Etude for two hands unisono, a pianistic tour de force.

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1086362PCL

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