The piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan is no longer regarded as the preserve of a handful of zealous specialists. Over the last two decades a whole raft of young pianists have emerged keen to take ...

A noted DJ, producer, collaborator, and label owner, Erol Alkan remains one of UK club culture's defining figures, strikingly original and wholly influential. A noted DJ, producer, collaborator, and ...

This month marks the bicentenary of the French Jewish composer and pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888). A new biography was published earlier this year in France, written by two devotees, ...

The actual stuff and substance of his music . . . is of such startling oddity, such intensely personal and individual quality, shot through with an eerie, uncanny feeling that makes it of irresistible ...

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Erol Alkan, LCD Soundsystem, 2ManyDJs and Bloc Party were all regulars at the feted Monday night party destination, which shut its doors 10 years ago this month. They recall an eclectic, eccentric ...

In just two years, Piano Classics has established itself as an important resource, not only for its recordings of neglected portions of the 19th- and 20th-century piano repertoire, but as a showcase ...

Alkan's hyperbolic piano music has always seemed an acquired taste. Monumental in its scale and ambition, and vociferously championed by its supporters, it's too often disappointing in performance, ...

There is just enough music for two pianos and four hands at one keyboard by Charles-Valentin Alkan – with the inclusion of arrangements of three works that he wrote for the briefly fashionable pedal ...