View Charles Valentin Alkan Pics. Symphony for solo piano & concerto for solo piano. Score video of charles valentin alkan's two hebrew choral works, halelouyoh (hallelujah) and etz chajjim hi (tree of life), performed by the university of louisville university chorus on my master's.
Piers lane explores the mysterious life and music of french pianist and composer charles valentin alkan, who was a friend and neighbour of chopin.
His compositions for solo piano include some of the most fiendishly difficult ever written. Like his siblings, he adopted his father's first name as his own surname. Charles valentin alkan, chanson de la folle au bord de la mer (song of the mad woman by the sea), no. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues frédéric chopin and franz liszt.
