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Charles-Valentin Alkan: Complete Recueils de Chants, Volume One
Catalogue Number: TOCC0157
Premier recueil de chants, Op. 38 Stephanie McCallum, piano The wild originality of Charles-Valentin Alkan was little appreciated during his lifetime (1813–88), nor during the century which followed, when he was largely lost from sight. But now Alkan is increasingly recognised as one of the most individual personalities in all music. The five albums he called Recueils de chants – miniature tone-poems which marry Classical constraint to virtuoso Romantic excess – provide an attractive gateway to his freewheeling imagination. Booklet texts (PDF) |
Track Listing, MP3 Downloads and Streaming Samples
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| DOWNLOAD COMPLETE ALBUM | 72:37 | ||||
| 1-6 | Premier recueil de chants, Op. 38 (1857) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Stephanie McCallum, piano |
19:57 | |||
| 1 | 1. Assez vivement | 4:33 |
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| 2 | 2. Sérénade: Quasi-allegretto | 2:56 |
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| 3 | 3. Chœur: Allegro | 2:56 |
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| 4 | 4. L’Offrande: Andantino | 2:39 |
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| 5 | 5. Agitatissimo (disperato) | 3:48 |
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| 6 | 6. Barcarolle: Andante | 3:05 |
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| 7-12 | Deuxième recueil de chants, Op. 38 (1857) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Stephanie McCallum, piano |
25:43 | |||
| 7 | 1. Hymne: Adagio | 5:07 |
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| 8 | 2. Allegretto (‘Fa’) | 3:16 |
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| 9 | 3. Chant de guerre: Allegro | 3:43 |
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| 10 | 4. Procession-Nocturne: Andantino | 3:45 |
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| 11 | 5. Andantino | 5:51 |
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| 12 | 6. Barcarolle en chœur: Andante | 4:01 |
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| 13-18 | Troisième recueil de chants, Op. 65 (c. 1859) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Stephanie McCallum, piano |
19:25 | |||
| 13 | 1. Vivante | 3:08 |
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| 14 | 2. Esprits follets: Prestissimo | 2:02 |
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| 15 | 3. Canon: Assez vivement – Assez doucement | 2:32 |
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| 16 | 4. Tempo giusto | 4:21 |
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| 17 | 5. Horace et Lydie: Vivacissimo | 3:53 |
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| 18 | 6. Barcarolle: Assez lentement | 3:29 |
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| 19 | Une fusée: Introduction et Impromptu, Op. 55 (1859) Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer Stephanie McCallum, piano (first recording) |
7:32 |
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Artists
Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer
Stephanie McCallum, piano
Comments
2 comments – add a comment
An excellent recording!
Stephanie McCallum has a natural affinity for the works of Alkan that really comes through in this reading.
It's brilliant to finally have an acoustic recording of the Op. 55 too, a tricky work, but handled in a masterly fashion by one of the composer's great modern-day champions.
Bring on disc two!
Seth Blacklock 27 February 2013
This is a fantastic undertaking by a wonderful pianist! It's about time somebody else records the complete Chants. I will make sure to acquire this CD soon. I can already tell by the audio preview samples that McCallum's playing is splendid and that the CD is definitely worth the purchase.
I am also excited for whenever Volume 2 is released!
Ethan James McCollum 9 February 2013