Alkan - Symphony (from Twelve Études in the Minor Keys), Op. 39 No. 4 - 7

Wee is a sensation; there’s no other word to describe his jaw-dropping playing. This is the Australian pianist’s debut album, and it’s a blockbuster. All of this is captured in the most spectacular... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 More…

Maltempo does not attempt to disguise the more derivative passages...he plays them all with such conviction and poise that the music seems totally of a piece. There's no flinching from the most... — The Guardian, 24th May 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…