Thursday, December 15, 2011

Charles Alkan - Concerto For Solo Piano #119

Charles Alkan - Concerto For Solo Piano
 Charles Valentine Alkan (1813-1888) was a French writer and virtuoso pianist. The technical ability of every day that I was the only pianist Liszt was considered as an equal. Chamber music and orchestral pieces from the side of his entire compositional output was for piano.
A young man in Paris, he was socially very active, and both Chopin and Liszt did, but around 1848 he became a recluse, living in Paris until his death.
Solo piano concerto in three movements composed for the twelve studies published in 1857 in what was a minor part in the set. Alkan's formidable piano technique in his writing, through the research shows. They are very difficult technically and musically, concerto's first movement alone is thirty minutes of standing.
Collection of other composers, for solo keyboard, such as a national by Bach and Schumann. Enter for a single instrument and a very integral part of the orchestra by the composer is usually part of a team alone for a challenge, for the listener to feel and sound, which is part of that. Jack Gibbons, the bottom of the concerto, touching diversity, stamina, musicianship and intelligence to tackle this complex but rewarding music is made by a pianist.