Alkan - Organ Music Vol. 2 | Toccata Classics TOCC0031

Alkan - Organ Music Vol. 2

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0031

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 21st November 2007

Contents

Works

Alkan
11 Pieces dans le Style Religieux, et une Transcription du Messie de Haendel, Op.72

Alkan
12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement, Op 39 Nos 7-12

Artists

Kevin Bowyer (organ)

Works

Alkan
11 Pieces dans le Style Religieux, et une Transcription du Messie de Haendel, Op.72

Alkan
12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement, Op 39 Nos 7-12

Artists

Kevin Bowyer (organ)

About

In the last three decades the staggeringly original piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–88) has emerged from the darkness that had surrounded it over the previous century and today features regularly in recital programmes.

But Alkan’s music for organ – much of it initially conceived for the now obsolete pedal-piano – is no less powerful and imaginative, although little of had been recorded before Kevin Bowyer began this survey. His first recording of this repertoire drew ecstatic reviews from the critics; this second instalment (of three) offers music and playing of equal quality.

Kevin Bowyer is playing on the organ of Blackburn Cathedral.

Review of Vol. 1:
‘ Kevin Bowyer finds drama and wit by turns through inventive registrations and a touch of the dash and daring that is the hallmark of the piano music.' BBC Music
‘But when it comes to Kevin Bowyer we have to accept that he is, quite simply, a truly unique figure in the world of organ-playing.' Gramophone

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