Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Alkan - Comme Le Vent (Like The Wind) 11

Alkan - Comme Le Vent (Like The Wind)
That heard him play, Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888) is a contemporary account by the same technique to Liszt. In fact, Liszt himself said he's never been a Alkan finest views of the technique. Even on the odd occasion Alkan 1848 after becoming a recluse, when he played in public in his technique, he maintained, and that he was surprised to hear.Just why he became a recluse and not 1848. Before then, he has appeared regularly in public, Chopin was a friend and neighbor, knew Liszt and Anton Rubinstein, and fashionable parlors and salons of Paris. But he began to be seen less and less in 1848 in the Jewish temple in Paris, and his appointment as organist at the apartment, occasionally admitting visitors or going out. He was taken to Paris as the main reservoir of the piano department in 1848 he was greatly disappointed. Since 1848, he studied the Talmud, and the life he went on composing. Late in his life, Erard grand piano in the studio where he does some of his own compositions, but his favorite composers who has starred in a series of concerts.Alkan's piano for most of his compositional output. The chamber music of two very small pieces for piano and orchestra, and an orchestral symphony is not write that way. Like Chopin, he was all for the major and minor keys of the piano etudes written. What are the etudes of his works consist of 35 to 12, and 39 were secondary to compose etudes. Comme by expression (wind) in the minor key etudes of the first etude. It is 20 pages long, and the title implies, the air will act like. Metronome marking is eighth note = 160, cut into thin 2 / 16 of the time signature, and most of the right-hand part of the triplet 32nd notes. Fragment as a virtual perpetuum mobile speed 4 and a half minutes of this game is not for the flag:


This is the true test of a pianist, and endurance, and control. It's a piece that Ronald Smith, Alkan, a pianist and music revival with a great deal that was, that 'Alkan's Frankenstein's monster, a fitting start to set. The volume consists of twelve etudes for solo piano, including a 3 movement concerto, for solo piano, including a 4-movement agreement, a neighborhood, a set of variations, and the rest of the set pieces.