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Finally a new album dedicated to Alkan, in this case by the Russian pianist Yuri Favorin, who has no qualms about tackling the diabolical difficulties of this composer who has been sadly neglected in our times, if only for the extravagant virtuosity his music demands. Favorin offers up two of the major works, that is, the Symphony for solo piano from 1857 – a sign of Alkan's ambition to give the work an orchestral dimension, to say nothing of its considerable staying power – and the Great sonata for piano, "The four ages of life" from 1847, which is no less monumental; faustian even (the second movement, "Quasi-Faust" is marked satanically, and with good reason), and the two final movements go from slowly to very slowly in a language that tends towards Mahler. For information, Yuri Favorin (1986) won the Queen Elisabeth Prize, and won First Prize at the Cziffra Competition in Vienna in 2003 and, two years before that, won Moscow's Nikolaï Rubinstein Prize. His repertoire extends to the greats of romanticism and classicism up to the present day, and he is quite at home with any of Messiaen, Boulez, Dufourt or Sciarrino, and even ventures into the sphere of electro-acoustic and improvised music with his ensemble ERROR 404. © SM/Qobuz
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Super flumina Babylonis "Paraphrase du psaume 137", Op. 52 (Charles-Valentin Alkan)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Symphonie pour piano seul, Op. 39 No. 4-7 (Charles-Valentin Alkan)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Grande Sonate pour piano "Les Quatre Âges de la vie", Op. 33 (Charles-Valentin Alkan)
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Composer - Yury Favorin, MainArtist
2017 Off The Records 2017 muso
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Finally a new album dedicated to Alkan, in this case by the Russian pianist Yuri Favorin, who has no qualms about tackling the diabolical difficulties of this composer who has been sadly neglected in our times, if only for the extravagant virtuosity his music demands. Favorin offers up two of the major works, that is, the Symphony for solo piano from 1857 – a sign of Alkan's ambition to give the work an orchestral dimension, to say nothing of its considerable staying power – and the Great sonata for piano, "The four ages of life" from 1847, which is no less monumental; faustian even (the second movement, "Quasi-Faust" is marked satanically, and with good reason), and the two final movements go from slowly to very slowly in a language that tends towards Mahler. For information, Yuri Favorin (1986) won the Queen Elisabeth Prize, and won First Prize at the Cziffra Competition in Vienna in 2003 and, two years before that, won Moscow's Nikolaï Rubinstein Prize. His repertoire extends to the greats of romanticism and classicism up to the present day, and he is quite at home with any of Messiaen, Boulez, Dufourt or Sciarrino, and even ventures into the sphere of electro-acoustic and improvised music with his ensemble ERROR 404. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:55
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Yury Favorin
- Composer: Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Label: Muso
- Genre: Klassiek
2017 Off The Records 2017 Off The Records
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