Alkan: Chanson de la folle au bord de la mer: A collection of eccentric piano works

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Maltempo is once again every inch the virtuoso, brimming over with zest even when Alkan's demands are sufficiently ferocious to cause him momentary strain…[he] is brilliantly attuned to an outsider,... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2015
Catalogue No: PCL0083
Label: Piano Classics
Length: 58 minutes

Alkan: Trois Petites Fantaisies, Op. 41

Work length16:04

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

No. 1. Assez gravement

Track length4:48

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No. 2. Andantino

Track length5:13

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No. 3. Menuet

Track length6:03

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Alkan: Minuetto alla tedesca, Op. 46

Work length5:02

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Alkan: Marche Funèbre, Op. 26

Work length11:19

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Alkan: Marche triomphale, Op. 26

Work length5:02

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Alkan: Petits préludes sur les huit gammes du plainchant

Work length1:20

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Petits preludes sur les 8 gammes du plain-chant: VI. Poco lento

Track length1:20

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Alkan: Capriccio alla soldatesca, Op. 50 No 1

Work length7:05

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Alkan: Le Tambour bat aux champs, Op. 50, No. 2

Work length4:58

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Excerpt, Alkan: Preludes (25), Op. 31

Work length3:27

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

25 Preludes dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op. 31: Suite No. 1: No. 8. La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer: Lentement

Track length3:27

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Excerpt, Alkan: Esquisses (48), Op. 63

Work length4:09

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Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Esquisses, Op. 63: Laus Deo

Track length4:09

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“Maltempo is much, much more than just an Alkan specialist.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian

This is Vincenzo Maltempo’s 5-th Alkan CD, establishing himself not only as the Champion of Alkan’s music, but as a formidable musician, a pianist of extraordinary power, sensitivity and intellect. This Alkan recital presents some of Alkan’s quirky and eccentric works, not necessarily of epic proportions (like his 12 Etudes in the minor key Op. 39), but often on a small scale, concentrating manically on a single idea, creating a hallucinatory and mesmerising effect (or simply hilarious…). The title song, the Song of the Mad Woman on the Seashore, creates in just a few minutes and just a few notes a profound feeling of alienation. Other pieces on this fascinating disc are the Trois Petits Fantaisies Op 41, Le Tambour bat aux Champs, Laus Deo, Capriccio alla Soldatesca, Minuetto alla Tedesca.

Maltempo’s previous Alkan recordings on Piano Classics received rave reviews in the international press (“Exhilarating, a revelation” Guardian), “9/9”, (Jed Distler classicstoday.com), “his playing flashes with summer lightning” (Gramophone), 5 star reviews in Diapason and Piano News.

Maltempo plays on a magnificent Érard Grand Piano from 1899, lending a special feeling of authenticity to his playing.

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May 2015

Maltempo is once again every inch the virtuoso, brimming over with zest even when Alkan's demands are sufficiently ferocious to cause him momentary strain…[he] is brilliantly attuned to an outsider, bleak and uncompromising beneath his surface extravagance. Piano Classics' sound is excellent and Maltempo proves himself a true champion of the near-impossible.

Alkan: Chanson de la folle au bord de la mer

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