Mark Viner takes on the immensely demanding Alkan Etudes
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'Enhanced by unexaggerated and beautiful recorded sound, the playing makes a wonderful artistic case for an ultra-idiosyncratic idiom which, as Viner rightly insists in his booklet note, is very different from those of Alkan’s stellar contemporaries, Chopin and Liszt.'
Alkan
12 Etudes dans tous les tons majeurs, Op. 35
Mark Viner (piano)
Piano Classics PCL 10127 68:27 mins
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Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's Digital Editor and Staff Writer. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music.