from Alkan: Symphony for solo piano (CDA67218) 1 Allegro [10'29] 26 minutes 0 seconds 4 tracks2 Marche funèbre. Andantino [6'06] 3 Menuet [5'05] 4 Finale. Presto [4'20] ‘Marc-André Hamelin puts us further in his debt with another superbly played disc of Alkan … [the Symphony’s] big-boned, exorbitantly taxing writing draws appropriately stunning pianism from Hame ... ‘Hamelin has no equal as an interpreter of Alkan; he inhabits the overheated world of this strange proto-Lisztian figure with a completeness that combines a total mastery of its fearsome technical cha ... ‘This quite exceptional recording confirms Marc-André Hamelin as the greatest living exponent of Alkan’s music … spontaneous, inspirational playing in which the architecture of each work, phrasin ... |