Alkan Edition on Brilliant Classics

[adriano]

Highly recommendable!

http://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/a/alkan-edition/

[Alan Howe]

A good cheap way into the composer - agreed. It was enthusiastically reviewed on BBC Radio 3's Record Review last Saturday.

[Gareth Vaughan]

At £38.76 on Amazon, I make that just under £3 a CD. Pretty damn good.

[eschiss1]

Hope they'll make it available as one of their fine US$8.99 (sometimes more) digital sets too (though I realize many of the recordings are available individually on other labels, e.g. Grand Piano, Nimbus, etc., already.) (I've bought a few Brilliant Classics digital sets- their reissue of the fine complete Bayer Dvorak quartets set, for instance.)

[adriano]

Right now we are in the final stage of an agreement with Brilliant to have my Brun CDs reissued by them in a very nice 11-CD box plus CDR with texts and photos. This means that a historical CD with Brun himself conducting his 8th Symphony will be included as a bonus.

[Gareth Vaughan]

That's (pardon me) "brilliant" news, Adriano.

[Alan Howe]

Exceedingly 'brilliant', yes.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Will your Sterling disk of the 3rd symphony be part of this deal, Adriano? 

[Sharkkb8]

A few weeks ago I found the download of this large Alkan set for $9.99 as an iTunes [USA] download.  Seems it's currently still on iTunes but for $15.99, which is barely more than $1/cd.  Wonderful music!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alkan-edition/id1292935967

[adriano]

Yes, of course, Gareth Vaughan - otherwise (to me) it would not make sense, since the main title is "complete orchestral works". And it's really complete - not like that "complete" Respighi box of the same label :-)

[Gareth Vaughan]

Thank you so much, Adriano. It will be at the top of my list of must-buys.

[eschiss1]

I apologize, I seem to have caused the thread get rather confusing (though I may be the only person to be confused.)

[Alan Howe]

No problem. Back to Alkan, then...

[semloh]

Hmm, isn't it frustrating when one has carefully built up a collection of a composer's works on diverse labels, with as little duplication as possible, and then someone goes and issues the whole oeuvre as a boxed set at a great price? I must convince myself that in the case of Alkan differences in interpretation can be so great that duplication is on paper only! 

[eschiss1]

It's now available streaming on NML. Listened to the first few tracks (the opening etudes of Op.39 as played by Vincenzo Maltempo...)