Organ Works, Volume 1
ALKAN, Charles-Valentin

Catalogue Number: TOCC0030
EAN: 5060113440303
Release Date: 02 May 2005
Duration: 76:17

11 Grands Préludes et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel, Op. 66
12 Études pour les Pieds seulement, Nos. 1–6
Benedictus, Op. 54

Kevin Bowyer, organ

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.

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See also:

• Alkan: Organ Works, Volume 2

Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
1	Benedictus, Op. 54 (1859) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Kevin Bowyer, organ (first recording)	8:55
	12 Études pour les Pieds seulement, Nos. 1–6 (c. 1869) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Kevin Bowyer, organ (first recording)	18:08
2	No. 1, Moderato, C minor	1:29
3	No. 2, Adagio, C major	3:23
4	No. 3, Moderato, A minor	2:33
5	No. 4, Moderato, E flat	2:45
6	No. 5, Moderato, A minor	2:46
7	No. 6, Adagio, C sharp minor	5:12
	11 Grands Préludes et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel, Op. 66 (1859) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Kevin Bowyer, organ (first recording)	49:14
8	No. 1, Allegro, F major	1:25
9	No. 2, Allegro moderato, D minor	2:17
10	No. 3, Andantino, B flat	4:06
11	No. 4, Moderatamente, G minor	4:26
12	No. 5, Quasi Adagio, E flat	4:45
13	No. 6, Andantino, C minor	4:36
14	No. 7, Andante, 'Alla giudesca', A flat	3:38
15	No. 8, Tempo giusto, F minor	5:05
16	No. 9, Langsam, D flat	6:52
17	No. 10, Scherzando, B flat minor	4:19
18	No. 11, Lento, F sharp major	3:24
19	Handel, Messiah, transcr. Alkan: Recitative 'Thy rebuke hath broken His heart' and Arioso 'Behold, and see'	4:21

Artists

Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer

Kevin Bowyer, organ