Paris in 1837 attracted artists of all persuasions, not least of all some of the most well known names in classical music. Franz Liszt and ...

Alkan's Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs (Twelve Studies in all the minor keys), Op. 39 for solo piano were published in 1857. ...

As the word implies, the musical prelude began as a extemporized piece that acted as an introduction to another work, most of them for key...

Charles Alkan's set of piano pieces titled  Souvenirs: Trois Morceaux Dans le Genre Pathétique, Opus 15   (Three Pieces In The Pathetic ...

Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote his Grand Sonata 'The Four Ages' after he returned to performing in 1844 after a six-year hiatus. The...

The French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan is most often thought of as a composer for keyboard instruments, with most of his works being f...

Charles Valentine Alkan's music reflects his remarkable virtuosity on the piano. His mastery of the piano was equal to one of the greate...

The name Charles Alkan conjures up piano pieces of staggering difficulty,  immense length and  musical depth. And rightly so, with his Con...

Was Charles Alkan really a mystery as the pianist Ronald Smith (a champion of Alkan's works) called him in the title to his biography ...

Charles Alkan's set of etudes in all the minor keys is a work of staggering proportions. The first etude is a flurry of 16th note tr...

By contemporary accounts of those that heard him play, Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888) had a technique equal to Liszt.  In fact, Lis...

Alkan's Concerto For Solo Piano is comprised of three etudes from his monumental work 12 Etudes In The Minor Keys.  Alkan was not the...