Past Events

Wednesday 19th March 2008 Holywell Music Room, Oxford at 20.00 Recital by Jack Gibbons to include Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, Gibbons, Chopin and Alkan: La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer op. 31/8 and Allegro Barbaro op. 35/5.
Wednesday 25th March 2009 Steinway Hall 44 Marylebone Lane, Westminster, London, W1U 2DB 18.45 pm. The Alkan Society presents a recital by Thomas Wakefield, to include music by Liszt: Transcriptions of Schubert, Bach and Mendelssohn; Nuages grises; Csárdás macabre and Alkan: Beethoven Concerto no. 3, 1st movement, arr. for piano solo (with cadenza by Alkan); Bourrée d’Auvergne, op. 29; Andante romantique op. 13 no.2; Le chemin de fer op. 27; Palpitamento; Marche triomphale op. 24/27. Limited places available for non-Members of the Alkan Society

Thursday 30th April 2009. Blüthner Piano Centre, 1 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, London W1K 3DB at 19.00. Piano recital by Mark Viner to include Haydn Sonata Hob. XVI:32, Scriabin Sonata no. 8 op. 68 ('Black Mass'), Godowsky Etude Macabre and  Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7. Information from info@bluthner.co.uk

Friday 19th June 2009 Dom Aktera, 7 Yaroslaviv Val, Kiev, Ukraine at 19.00 Piano recital by Jonathan Powell to include Ives 'Concord' Sonata, Finnissy Concerto no. 4 for solo piano, music by Konstantin Silvestrov and Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7. Tickets 30-50 hrivnia.

Monday 6th July 2009 Wigmore Hall, London at 19.30 Piano Recital by Shwan Sebastian to include Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin and Alkan Le festin d’Esope op. 39 No. 12, Barcarolle op. 65 no. 6 and first movement ('20 ans') of Grande sonate op. 33

Tuesday 7th July 2009
Buscot Park Theatre, Faringdon at 19.00 Recital by Mark Viner (piano) and Louise Woodgate (soprano) to include Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7.

Friday 17th July 2009 Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham at 17.00. Piano recital by Mark Viner as part of the Cheltenham Festival. Haydn    Sonata B minor Hob. XV1:32 - Schumann Etudes Symphoniques Op. 13 - Alkan Symphony for Solo Piano Op. 39 4 - 7.

Sunday 19th July 2009
Holywell Music Room, Holywell St., Oxford at 20.00. Piano recital by Jack Gibbons: Alkan, Ouverture op. 39 no. 11, Symphonie op. 39 nos. 4-7, Concerto op. 39 8-10.

Wednesday 29th July 2009
Holywell Music Room, Holywell St., Oxford at 20.00. Piano recital by Jack Gibbons, to include Debussy, Gibbons, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Ravel, Gershwin and Alkan: Marche Triomphale op. 26.

Sunday August 2nd St. Nicholas' Church, Market Place, Abingdon at 15.00. Piano recital by Mark Viner to include Schumann Etudes Symphoniques Op.13, Liszt Consolation No.3 and Alkan Symphony Op.39 4 - 7.

Friday 28th August 2009
Holywell Music Room, Holywell St., Oxford at 20.00. Piano recital by Jack Gibbons; 'Farewell Piano Party'  to include Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Gibbons,  Chopin, Liszt, Gershwin, Alkan, and audience requests.

Saturday 5th September 2009.
Liszt Museum Budapest Piano recital by Thomas Kamieniak, to include Alkan Morte op. 15 no. 3 and Le Tambour bat aux champs, op. 50 no. 2.
Thursday 1st October , The Forge, Camden, London, at 19.00. Recital by Rohan de Saram ('cello) and Jonathan Powell: Alkan Sonate de Concert, op. 47 and Mendelssohn, Cello sonata no. 2.

Wednesday 7th October 2009. Congress Hall, Levoca, Slovakia, 19.00 as part of the 'Indian Summer in Levoca' Festival. Recital by Rohan de Saram (cello) and Jonathan Powell (piano) to include Mendelssohn, Martinu and Alkan Sonate de Concert, op. 47.

Saturday 10th October 2009
Dardanelles Summerhouse, Markusovce,  Slovakia 15.00 as part of the 'Indian Summer in Levoca' Festival. Recital by Tomasz Kamieniak (piano) to include Liszt; transcriptions of Mendelssohn lieder: Haydn Sonata in g minor: and Alkan Ouverture op. 39 no. 11;  Morte op. 15 no. 3; Le Tambour bat aux champs, op. 50 no. 2

Thursday 22nd October 2009 Lord Rhodes Room, Royal Northern College of Music, 18.30 Lloyd Buck plays the first movement of Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano, op. 39 no. 8. Free admission.

Friday 13 November 2009  Wigmore Hall, London at 19.30  Piano recital by Marc-André Hamelin to include Haydn, Mozart, Liszt, Fauré, Alkan Symphonie for Solo Piano op. 39, 4-7. To be preceded at 18.00 by a talk by Annette Moreau on the Alkan Symphonie.

Wednesday 18 November  2009 Steinway and Son, 44 Marylebone Lane London at 18.45. Piano recital by Leslie Howard : Liszt: Années de pčlerinage III, S. 163 nos 1-4, and Alkan Symphony Op.39 4 - 7. Presented jointly by the Liszt Society and the Alkan Society. Priority booking for members of the Liszt Society and the Alkan Society.

Wednesday 9th November 2009 House of Actors, Yaroslaviv Val, Kiev, Ukraine at 19.00 Piano recital by Tomasz Kamieniak to include Chopin, Wieniawski and Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano op. 39, 8-10. e-mail for details.

Tuesday 19th January 2010 Peacock Room, Trinity College of Music, London at 19.30 Piano recital by Karl Lutchmayer, Sam Liu, Aleks Szram, and Douglas Finch. Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate: 'Les quatre âges' (Grand sonata: The Four Ages) with 'contemporary extensions'. Admission free.

Sunday 7th February 2010 L'Archipel, Paris at 18.00 Piano recital by Jonathan Powell to include Ullman, Feinberg, Blumenfeld, Goldenweiser, Mahler arr. Friedmann and Alkan: Symphonie pour piano seul op. 39 4-7.

Tuesday 9th February 2010 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London at 19.30 Piano recital by Huseyin Sermet to include Chopin, Liszt and Alkan Trois petites fantaisies op. 41.

Friday 12th February 2010 St. Barnabas Church, Pitshanger Lane, North Ealing, London at 13.00. Piano recital by Mark Viner to include Beethoven: Sonata Op.26 and Alkan: Douze etudes dans les tons majeurs Op.35; X). "Chant d'amour - Chant de mort"- XI). "Posement" - XII). "Technique des Octaves"

Saturday 20th Febuary 2010 Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. 2010 Alkan Competition and Recital. 14.30: Competition. 19.30 Recital by Tom Wakefield to include Chopin, Liszt and Alkan. Entrance free (retiring collection).