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Alkan Organ Works in 2 CDs Kevin Bowyer (APE)

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Alkan - Organ Works in 2 CDs - Kevin Bowyer (APE)

Not my rip. I'm just the postman :))
This an ongoing release by the fine label Toccata Classics, planned to fill 3 CDs. Two of them are already available.
Unfortunately, I have only front covers for both CDs. It would be interesting to have the complete booklets, since many of these recordings are world premieres.
Anyway, the sleeve notes for CD2 are included here in text format.


ALKAN, Charles-Valentin (1813–1888)
Organ Works - Volume 1
Kevin Bowyer
Organ of Blackburn Cathedral

Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue Number: TOCC0030
Release Date: 02 May 2005
EAN: 5060113440303

Duration: 76:20

In the last three decades the staggeringly original piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) has emerged from the darkness that had surrounded it over the past century and now it features regularly in the repertoire of some of today's best young pianists. But Alkan's organ music – no less powerful and imaginative – has yet to become known, even to a specialist public. This is the first of three CDs presenting all of Alkan's unrecorded music for organ.

Track Listing

01 Benedictus 8:53
02 12 Etudes (i) Moderato 1:29
03 12 Etudes (ii) Adagio 3:21
04 12 Etudes (iii) Moderato 2:32
05 12 Etudes (iv) Moderato 2:45
06 12 Etudes (v) Moderato 2:46
07 12 Etudes (vi) Adagio 5:12
08 11 Grands Preludes (i) Allegro 1:23
09 11 Grands Preludes (ii) Allegro moderato 2:16
10 11 Grands Preludes (iii) Andantino 4:06
11 11 Grands Preludes (iv) Moderatamente 4:26
12 11 Grands Preludes (v) Quasi Adagio 4:45
13 11 Grands Preludes (vi) Andantino 4:36
14 11 Grands Preludes (vii) Andante 3:36
15 11 Grands Preludes (viii) Tempo giusto 5:06
16 11 Grands Preludes (ix) Langsam 6:49
17 11 Grands Preludes (x) Scherzando 4:19
18 11 Grand Preludes (xi) Lento 3:23
19 Handel (Messiah) Transcription 4:12


ALKAN, Charles-Valentin (1813–1888)
Organ Works - Volume 2
Kevin Bowyer
Organ of Blackburn Cathedral

Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue Number: TOCC0031
Release Date: 03 November 2007
EAN: 5060113440310

Duration: 73:40

Track Listing

01 Pro Organo 02:19
02 12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement: No. 7 Allegro F sharp minor 03:05
03 12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement: No. 8 Energicamente D minor 03:09
04 12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement: No. 9 Moderato D major 03:26
05 12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement: No. 10 Moderato D major 02:22
06 12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement: No. 11 Adagio F minor 04:52
07 12 Etudes pour les pieds seulement: No. 12 Tempo giusto C major 04:22
08 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 1 Tempo giustissimo C major 03:25
09 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 2 Andantino A major 03:25
10 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No.3 Quasi-Adagio D minor 02:53
11 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 4 Assez doucement G major 03:42
12 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No.5 Lentement D minor 03:44
13 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 6 Majesteusement B flat major 03:40
14 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 7 Molto Moderato F major 04:40
15 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 8 Assez vite A minor 04:05
16 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 9 Assez lentement E flat major 05:03
17 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 10 Moderement D minor 04:26
18 11 pieces dans le Style Religieux et 1 Transcription du Messie de Handel Op. 72 - No. 11 Dolcemente A minor 06:35
19 Handel Messiah transcr. Alkan: Larghetto ('Pastoral Symphony') B major 03:02

[For more info, please check the sleeve notes included in this release.]

About the Artist
Kevin Bowyer was born in Southend-on-Sea in January 1961 and studied with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, David Sanger, Virginia Black and Paul Steinitz. He has won first prizes in five international organ competitions and has gained a reputation for playing unusual and new muisic and for taking on 'impossible' projects. In 1987 he gave the world premiere of Kaikhosru Sorabji's two-hour solo Symphony for Organ, considered 'impossible' ever since its first publication in 1925.
At home Kevin has played solo and concerto in most of the major venues and festivals. Trips and tours abroad have taken him throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. In summer 2003 he played the complete solo organ symphonies of Widor and Vierne and the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in three concerts in the same week at St. Giles, Cripplegate.
Mr. Bowyer has released about 80 solo CDs, many of which have won awards. They include many recordings of contemporary music as well as the complete organ music of J.S. Bach (29 CDs) and music by Alkan, Brahms, Schumann, Reubke, Hindemith and Schoenberg.


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