Search - Charles-Valentin Alkan, Kevin Bowyer :: Charles-Valentin Alkan: Organ Works, Vol. 1

"Works of stature and originality ? Kevin Bowyer is a fine advocate for this music ? My sense is that excellence in documentation is another strategic aim for this label and rightly so at ?full price.? There is a very detailed and interesting essay on the music by Malcolm MacDonald and a likeable note about the artist ? a strong recommendation for this disc." -PATRICK C. WALLER, MUSIC ON THE WEB In the last three decade, the staggeringly original piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813?88) has emerged from the darkness that had surrounded it over the past century and now features regularly in the repertoire of some of today?s best young pianists. However, 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. Kevin Bowyer plays the organ of Blackburn Cathedral. Bowyer is one of the best-known and best-selling organists on disc. His many previous albums on Nimbus, including the complete Bach for organ, having become standards of the catalogue.