Some Alkan Links

 Pure Alkan

Stephen Smythe's (UK) Alkan website

Sylvain Chosson's extensive Alkan website which includes many downloadable scores of Alkan rarities

Jean-Marc Warszawki's 'Musicologie' site - has useful Alkan bibliography

The Strange Case of Charles Valentin Alkan - article by James Penrose from the New Criterion

Naxos Records Alkan pages - the various Naxos and Marco Polo recordings of Alkan's music, with many extensive music clips for listening

Alkan Society Piano Scholarship and Competition at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

 John Kersey's site containing numerous mp3s of rare and as-yet-unrecorded Alkan (and other) items

 Anders Rådén's pioneering mp3 of the 'Scherzo focoso'

 The World of Alkan

David Conway's Jewry in Music site - Jewish musicians (including Alkan of course) in the period 1780-1850

The Meyerbeer Fan Club American site with a wealth of information about Alkan's contemporaries Meyerbeer and Halévy and the musical world of their time

Gregor Brand's site with substantial research and information about the German Alkan family, from which he is descended.

Sigismund Thalberg International Study Centre

Site dedicated to Norbert Burgmüller

Sire dedicated to Ignaz Moscheles (under construction: has listing of his works)

Isidore Philipp Archive, University of Louisiana

Raymond Lewenthal Archive at University of Maryland International Piano Archives

Discography of Marc-André Hamelin (on homepages of Frazer Jarvis of University of Sheffield)

Marc-André Hamelin Concert Diary (excluding dates in USA and Canada)

Norman Lebrecht's article on Ronald Smith and the eventful history of his recording of Alkan's chamber music

Michael Nanasakov, 'Virtual Pianist'   Mr. Nanasawa has created the 'persona' of 'Michael Nanasakov' and under this name prepared recordings of Alkan and others using a  player-piano and computer set-up. Some music clips.

Jean-Christophe Keck's Offenbach website

Site of the pianist Jack Gibbons

Site of the pianist Steven Osborne

Site of the pianist Mark Latimer

American Liszt Society

Franz Liszt Society, Budapest

London Chopin Society

Gérard Billaudot Editeur - publish a good deal of Alkan sheet-music - offer catalogues and mail-order service

Masters Music Publications - publish a number of Alkan sheet-music reprints, which can be ordered on-line

Indiana University: Willam & Gayle Cook Music Library Online music scores including Alkan's op. 35 Studies (in all the major keys).

Alkan-based ring tones for your telephone - at least that's what this page appears to be, although admittedly my Turkish is not up to speed.

 Alkan on MIDI (sites kindly suggested by AS member Wolfgang Haerer)

Classical Archives - settings of some of Alkan's piano music by various hands (with varying success!)

Various Alkan pieces midified at www.kunstderfuge.com/alkan.htm

 Not Quite Alkan

Alkan S.A. French aerospace company (founded by Robert Alkan, a scion of the German Alkan family which has a so far elusive connection to our hero)

Banu Alkan - Very attractive Turkish celebrity film-star, model, and would-be politician, but no relation as far as we know

Alkan Air - for those travelling in Alaska

Alcan Corporation - giant metallurgical combine. Site contains a video of their recent shareholder's AGM, for those who swing to that sort of thing.

Alkane Energy plc "extracts gas from abandoned coal mines for direct supply to local consumers".

Erol Alkan aka Kurtis Rush, leftfield hip hop DJ whose main opus so far is the bootleg 'George Gets His Freak On'.

Alkan Shelter LLC - whenever you need a temporary building for temperatures around -100 degrees

Alkan Holding   - 'one of Egypt's leading private sector groups'

 Other Music Links

ClassicalNet site with CD reviews and, it claims, links to 4000 classical music web-sites (nb I haven't counted them to check!).

The Classical Source - features, reviews, information

Music and Vision Magazine - the world's first daily classical music magazine

MusicWeb - wide ranging classical site (with bonus of a daily Hoffnung cartoon)

The Classical Music EMail List Directory - exactly what it says, for those who wish to engage in discussion or debate with others by e-mail.

Musicians' Gallery Resource for professional  musicians, music societies, musical education and services

Classical Music UK - listings, news, information and articles

The Dutch Organ Society - contains Europe-wide information on organ events (in English as well as Dutch)

Social Affairs Unit Weblog - their music critic is an Alkan Society member (me, in fact)