Alkan: Grande Sonate Les Quatre Ages; Symphonie, etc – review

Vincenzo Maltempo(Piano Classics)Alkan's hyperbolic piano music has always seemed an acquired taste. Monumental in its scale and ambition, and vociferously championed by its supporters, it's too often disappointing in performance, with little to show for the huge virtuoso effort involved in playing it. But Vincenzo Maltempo pairs two of Alkan's best-known works, the programmatic Op 33 Sonata, Les Quatre Ages, and the four pieces from the 12 Studies in the Minor Keys Op 39 that make up his solo-p...

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