Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888) was a French-Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist. Some of his music requires extreme technical virtuosity, clearly reflecting his own abilities, often calling for great velocity, enormous leaps at speed, long stretches of fast repeated notes, and the maintenance of widely spaced contrapuntal lines.
"Une Fusée: Introduction et Impromptu, Op. 55"(1859) is rarely played, probably because it requires transcendental techniques to play at indicated tempo. According to information in sheet music, the original title was "Une Fusée", apolysemic word for "Rocket" or "Fireworks". Alkan reproduces sound of the explosion well. The finale uses tone clusters to represent sound of launch. Dissonance was also used in baroque music, but it was still a crazy technique in the 19th century. Is this a war or a show? Please listen while imagining.
00:05 Introduction
02:29 Impromptu
[SHEET MUSIC]
If you want to see the sheet music, please visit IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) of public-domain score.
imslp.org/wiki/Category:Alkan...
[CREATED DATE: July 2010]
18 июл 2020
