{"product_id":"alkan-esquisses-op-63","title":"Alkan: Esquisses, Op. 63 - Laurent Martin","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAlkan compiled his Esquisses, or Sketches, in 1861. The individual pieces that make up the set were probably written during the previous fifteen years. They were published in four volumes, with the pieces arranged in key sequence. The range of musical reference within them is very great indeed. For instance, Le staccatissimo (track 2) suggests links between the age of the French clavecinistes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries on the one hand, and Chopin and Schumann on the other. Confidence (track 9) evokes the form and texture of a Mendelssohn Song without Words, while Les soupirs (track 11) looks forward to Debussy. Esquisses ends with a postscript, Laus Deo, which evokes the solemn tolling of bells. This massive work is a fitting tribute to one of the nineteenth century’s master pianists.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAlkan, Charles-Valentin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Esquisses, Op. 63\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 1 La vision 03:03\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 2 Le staccatissimo 01:03\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 3 Le legatissimo 01:26\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 4 Les cloches 00:58\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 5 Les inities 02:28\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 6 Fuguette 01:31\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 7 Le frisson 01:45\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 8 Pseudo-Naivete 01:15\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9 Confidence 02:14\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 10 Increpatio 01:25\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 11 Les soupirs 01:45\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 12 Barcarollette 01:15\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 13 Ressouvenir 02:49\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 14 Duettino 01:12\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 15 Tutti de Concerto dans le genre ancien 01:04\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 16 Fantaisie 01:18\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 17 Petit prelude a 3 00:44\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 18 Liedchen 01:11\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 19 Graces 01:35\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 20 Petite marche villageoise 01:43\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 21 Morituri te salutant 02:20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 22 Innocenza 01:21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 23 L'Homme aux sabots 00:38\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 24 Contredanse 01:05\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 25 La poursuite 00:43\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 26 Petit air 00:44\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 27 Rigaudon 00:58\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 28 Inflexibilite 00:55\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 29 Delire 00:54\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 30 Petit air dolent 01:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 31 Debut de quatuor 01:04\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 32 Minuettino 03:10\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 33 Fais Dodo 00:57\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 34 Odi profanum vulgus et arceo 02:28\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 35 Musique militaire 01:12\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 36 Toccatina 01:08\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 37 Scherzettino 01:00\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 38 Les bons souhaits 01:37\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 39 Heraclite et Democrite 02:11\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 40 Attendez-moi sous l'orme 00:42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 41 Les enharmoniques 01:54\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 42 Petit air 00:55\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 43 Notturnino - 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