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Alkan Le Festin d’Esope |
This collection includes three monumental works from Alkan’s Twelve studies in all the minor keys, op. :39: the complete four—movement “Symphony for Solo Piano,” the complete three—movement “Concerto for Solo Piano,” and “Le Festin d'Esope (Aesop’s Feast), twenty-five variations on an original theme. Three smaller works complete this important edition: Saltarelle, op. 23; Toccatina, Op. 75; and the lovely “Barcarolle” from Op. 65, modelled on Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words.
Pianists of advanced skills—and students of music’s great revolutionary masters will welcome this new treasury of hard-to-find pieces, selected and with commentary by Marc-André Hamelin, the piano virtuoso who has performed Alkan’s music worldwide and recorded the composers major works.
Dover (1998) original compilation of works first published by Richault, Paris, nd. [ca. 18.57] as Oeuvres pour le piano de C:V.Alkan ainé, later reissued under the related imprints of Fonds Costallat-Billaudot/Editions M.-R. Braun, or Gérard Billaudot, or Costallat et Cie—all, Paris, n.d. Introduction. Notes. 240pp. 9 x 12.
Free Dover Music Catalog (59057-7) available upon request.