Chopin – Alkan
Chopin – Alkan
Composer Chopin
Genre Chamber music
Format CD
Release date 21 janvier 2010
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Charles-Valentin Alkan’s neglected Sonate de concert is the most ambitious work for cello and piano of the Romantic period. Alkan wrote this monumental, virtuosic piece for the great cellist Auguste-Joseph Franchomme. It was for the same musician that Chopin composed at the end of his life his Sonata for cello and piano, a crepuscular, tormented work.