Jack Gibbons plays Alkan Concerto 3rd movement

Jack Gibbons plays the third movement of Alkan’s Concerto for solo piano. The monumental Concerto for Solo Piano makes up Etudes 8-10 of Charles-Valentin Alkan’s ’Douze Etudes dans les Tons Mineurs’ (Twelve Studies in the Minor Keys), Alkan’s magnum opus, published in 1857. The Concerto for solo piano has been described as a musical epic and as one of the most original works of its century, and contains some of Alkans finest and most haunting music. As the title of the work suggests, Alkan recreates