Composer: Charles-Valentin Alkan, George Frideric Handel
Performer: Kevin Bowyer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0030
Release: 2005
Size: 281 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Alkan: Benedictus, Op. 54
Alkan: 12 Organ Etudes
02. Etude No. 1 in C Minor
03. Etude No. 2 in C Major
04. Etude No. 3 in A Minor
05. Etude No. 4 in E-Flat Major
06. Etude No. 5 in A Minor
07. Etude No. 6 in C-Sharp Minor
Alkan: 11 Pieces dans le style religieux et un transcription du Messie de Handel, Op. 72
08. Prelude No. 1 in F Major
09. Prelude No. 2 in D Minor
10. Prelude No. 3 in B-Flat Major
11. Prelude No. 4 in G Minor
12. Prelude No. 5 in E-Flat Major
13. Prelude No. 6 in C Minor
14. Prelude No. 7 in A-Flat Major
15. Prelude No. 8 in F Minor
16. Prelude No. 9 in D-Flat Major
17. Prelude No. 10 in B-Flat Minor
18. Prelude No. 11 in F-Sharp Minor
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
19. Thy rebuke hath broken His heart / Behold, and see (Arr. C-V Alkan)
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 past century and now it features regularly in the repertoire of some of today’s best young pianists. But Alkan’s organ music – no less powerful and imaginative – has yet to become known, even to a specialist public. This is the first of three CDs presenting all of Alkan’s unrecorded music for organ.