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 Organ Works, Volume 2
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Organ Works, Volume 2
ALKAN, Charles-Valentin

Catalogue Number: TOCC0031
EAN: 5060113440310
Release Date: 03 November 2007
Duration: 73:40

11 Pièces dans le Style Religieux, et 1 Transcription, de Messie de Handel, Op. 72
12 Études pour les Pieds seulement, Nos. 7–12
Pro Organo

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 surrounded it over the previous century and today features regularly in recital programmes. But Alkan's music for organ – much of it initially conceived for the now obsolete pedal-piano – is no less powerful and imaginative, although little of it had been recorded before Kevin Bowyer began this survey. His first recording of this repertoire drew ecstatic reviews from the critics; this second instalment (of three) offers music and playing of equal quality.

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Track No. Track Title/Details Duration Sample Download Track
1 Pro Organo (1850)
Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer
Kevin Bowyer, organ

(first recording)
2:20
  12 Études pour les Pieds seulement, Nos. 7–12 (c. 1869)
Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer
Kevin Bowyer, organ

(first recording)
21:20
2 No. 7, Allegro, F sharp minor 3:06
3 No. 8, Energicamente, D minor 3:09
4 No. 9, Moderato, D major 3:27
5 No. 10, Moderato, D major 2:23
6 No. 11, Adagio, F minor 4:53
7 No. 12, Tempo giusto, C major 4:22
  11 Pièces dans le Style Religieux, et 1 Transcription, de Messie de Handel, Op. 72 (c. 1867)
Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer
Kevin Bowyer, organ
50:00
8 No. 1, Tempo giustissimo, C major 3:25
9 No. 2, Andantino, A major 4:38
10 No. 3, Quasi-Adagio, D minor 2:53
11 No. 4, Assez doucement, G major 3:43
12 No. 5, Lentement, D minor 3:45
13 No. 6, Majesteusement, B flat major 3:41
14 No. 7, Molto Moderato, F major 4:40
15 No. 8, Assez vite, A minor 4:06
16 No. 9, Assez lentement, E flat major 5:03
17 No. 10, Modérément, D minor 4:27
18 No. 11, Dolcement, A minor 6:36
19 Handel, Messiah, transcription Alkan: Larghetto ('Pastoral Symphony'), B major 3:03

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Kevin Bowyer

Kevin Bowyer, organ

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