Alkan Grande Sonate, 'Les Quatre Ages' (Full Album) played by Vincenzo Maltempo

Alkan Grande Sonate "Les Quatre Ages' Symphonie pour Piano Solo played by Vincenzo Maltempo Tracklist Below: Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/AlkanGra... More Information: https://www.piano-classics.com/articl... Piano Classics Facebook: https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/Facebook Spotify Playlists: Piano Classics Spotify: https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/Spotify Peaceful and Relaxing Piano Music: https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/Peaceful... The Best of Rachmaninoff: https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/BestOfRa... Any new recording of Charles-Valentin Alkan is an event, which hopefully widens the public appreciation of this still unknown genius of the French Romantic period. After unsuccessful efforts at a brilliant concert career, Alkan went into reclusion, concentrating on teaching and composing his totally unique oeuvre, mainly written for solo piano. One of the greatest virtuosos of his time (even Liszt was nervous in his presence) he wrote piano music of the most colossal proportions, scope and difficulty. This recording by the young and extraordinarily gifted young Italian, Vincenzo Maltempo, brings together two of Alkan's masterworks: the 'Grande Sonata' “Les Quatre Ages” (in which Alkan musically describes the several stages of Man’s Life, from exuberant youth to tragic old age), and the 'Symphonie pour piano solo', a dramatic four movement work in Classical/Romantic style. As an encore we have the fiendishly difficult 'Etude for two hands unisono', a pianistic tour de force. Tracklist: 00:00:00 1 Grande sonate "Les quatre âges", Op. 33~20 ans: Très vite 00:06:34 2 Grande sonate "Les quatre âges", Op. 33~30 ans: Quasi Faust. Assez vite 00:19:16 3 Grande sonate "Les quatre âges", Op. 33~40 ans: Un heureux ménage. Lentement 00:32:31 4 Grande sonate "Les quatre âges", Op. 33~50 ans: Prométhée enchaîné. Assez lentement 00:41:14 5 Symphonie pour piano solo (Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39 n. 4, 5, 6, 7)~Allegro. Allegro moderato 00:52:05 6 Symphonie pour piano solo (Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39 n. 4, 5, 6, 7)~Marche funèbre. Andantino 00:59:51 7 Symphonie pour piano solo (Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39 n. 4, 5, 6, 7)~Menuet. Tempo di minuetto 01:05:28 8 Symphonie pour piano solo (Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39 n. 4, 5, 6, 7)~Finale. Presto 01:10:07 9 Trois grandes études pour les mains séparées et réunies, Op. 76~Etude n. 3. Mouvement semblable et perpetual