Concerto for Solo PIano Op.39 No.10 Alkan Audio + Sheet Music
pf: Marc-Andre Hamelin I don’t know if I’m going to upload the rest of the concerto; I don’t seem to have the time, but if people DO want me to upload the rest then by chance I might. High Quality: www.youtube.com Recording Date: Feb 10, 2006 Recording Location: Potton Hall, Suffolk
wow this is AWESOME!!
@brianCIM
I prefer Raymond Lewenthal’s Dohnanyi Capriccio, not as technically polished but much more raw (perhaps because it was live).
Interestingly enough he was a Nyiregyhazi fan…
And interesting story: when he was in his youth and had just finished playing in a competition, he spoke about Alkan to Nyiregyhazi , who promptly went to the piano and played the fastest and clearest first movement of this Concerto for Solo Piano Lewenthal had ever heard.
@brianCIM – have you listened to Hough’s performances of the Hummel A-minor and B-minor concertos? brilliant.
@RabidCh is it on youtube? i definitely must hear this.
@1980NewWave yes i own the recording. A supervirtuoso who is actually a good MUSCIAN. Quite a rarity these days.
@brianCIM
If you are referring to Lewenthal’s Dohnanyi Capriccio, yes.
You also might want to hear the one by Lympany, despite limited sound quality.
Bravo!!!! The composition is apsolutelly briliant and beautiful!
Love the modulation to E-sharp major at 7:14, with an f triple sharp in the lower staff on the second measure of the page.
Alkan was truly daring!
@HandyTheXxxX I like 8.41 to 8.44 – wild. btw, everything from 6.56 onwards is unbelieveable.
@tomekkobialka – I’d like you to upload the rest if you can. I think most of the reviewers would agree too.
I ain’t dying before trying this one
Hamelin must have been so exhausted aftet playing this. My god, that was fantastic.
wow,, this probably would be the hardest piece that is ever writtem on piano! harder than feux follets and even in mazeppa!
Wow, excellent skill shown by the performer and the composer. It’s daring and it keeps you enthralled right to the end. What and excellent piece!
the ending reminds me of something from chopin..
It sounds as if Chopin, Horowitz, Godowsky, and Schumann started out with something pretty and simple, then took turns trying to make it more and more difficult until it became this.
@Jim341046 In the right hand alone!
@thunderillusion Your right! i didnt go back and see what it was but it sounds to be like the ending of The Black key etude No.5
I love the chords at the beggining
Am I the only one realizing the typo? Concert for solo Plano?
No one can polish those syncopated rhythm to perfection @ 00:40-00:41 & 00:54-00:55 like MAH. Alkan could be forgotten again in the 1990s without Hamelin… He brought him to shiny glamorous CDs in 44 kHz and 16 bits…
He is the only who could depict Alkan’s madness, despair and seclusion. Gibbons coudn’t. Feel like cry where Alkan’s condition was the maddest – 1:48-1:53, 3:07-3:17, 4:26-5:10, 8:43-8:47.
The whole piece is a long fall into the whirlpool or the precipice of insanity.
@FranzLisztian Am I the only one realizing your typo? No ‘o’ at the end of concert…:)
@tomekkobialka
I must say you got me there
@tomekkobialka
And in a more related message for the video – I love this concerto. I want the entire symphony by hamelin as well
Can I just remind everyone listening, this is one Piano and two hands only. I’ve just conquered Liebestaume but clearly that was Mont Blanc with Everest to go!