Charles-Valentin Alkan News
French-Jewish composer and pianist
- organ, piano
- classical music
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- composer, pianist, linguist, translator, music teacher, Bible translator, organist
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2024-02-26 06:05:35
Igor Levit recorded the present album as an artistic reaction to the October 7th attacks on Israel and the current rise in anti-Semitism worldwide, designating all proceeds toward two German organizations fighting anti-Semitism: the OFEK Advice Center for Anti-Semitic Violence and Discrimination and the Kreuzberg Initiative Against Anti-Semitism. Aside from altruistic reasons, one should buy […]
2024-02-09 06:00:14
YOU MUST HEAR: Alkan’s ‘Barcarolle’
2024-01-27 09:59:00
A winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival
[…] than just another festival.KKL, Luzern (Photo: KKL, Luzern)Whilst repertoire focuses very much on the piano classics, there are new discoveries alongside these (such as last year's Paderewski Piano Concerto, see my review) and new commissions. And Numa points out that he is not afraid of running out of repertoire, just look at Haydn, Scarlatti, Chopin or Liszt's keyboard works. He adds that he is not a completist, and would love to be able to include Alkan, Hahn, Faure, Pierné and so on. But they want to balance the known and the unknown, however they have no obligations or quotas, no strict quotas, simply a wish and a desire to create music.Also, Numa points out that repertoire should be driven by the artists who can deliver it, but there is a uniqueness to the programming, much of it is distinctive to the festival or home grown, so that this year there […]
2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, […]
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