Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano ( Smith) Christmas Special No. 3
I. Allegro assai 00:00 II. Adagio 29:34 III. Allegretto alla barbaresca 41:39 Concerto for Solo Piano is a three movement solo piano piece written by CharlesValentin Alkan. The pieces are part of a 12 piece cycle entitled Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs (12 Studies in the Minor Keys), published in 1857 (although it may have been written some years earlier). With sections marked Tutti, Solo and Piano, the piece requires the soloist to present the voices of both the orchestra and the soloist. The pianist Jack Gibbons comments: The style and form of the music take on a monumental qualityrich, thickly set textures and harmonies. .. conjure up the sound world of a whole orchestra and tax the performer, both physically and mentally, to the The work features progressive tonality, beginning in G minor and ending in F major; this is a consequence of the piece being three consecutive elements of the cycle of 12 études, each of which is in a key a perfect fourth higher than its predece
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