Jack Gibbons plays Alkan Concerto 2nd movement

[xakoviski]

I absolutely love this piece!! Thank you for the upload, never seen it live up untill now.

[L4RSLink]

Amazing piece!

[LongDriveChamp03]

That section at 3:20 is such an incredibly emotional passage, I can never listen to it just once. I'm always going back to that one part

[Corleone1337]

3:20 until 3:50 is such a great transition.

Just like the first movement of this concerto, which I consider to be the greatest piano piece, this gets better every time I listen to it. And, again just like the first movement, Jack plays it so amazingly that I'm even beginning to like listening to my least favourite part of this movement ( 6:40 until 7:40 ).

Heh, I should be writing a paper at the moment, but I just can't stop listening to Alkan!

Thank you for uploading this, Mr Gibbons!

[twooffour]

@Corleone1337

Can't believe you said that - the marching section is my absolute favorite part in the movement! :D

[Corleone1337]

@twooffour Well, it's not that I find it a bad part, it's just that I think it fits strangely into the whole piece.

[twooffour]

@Corleone1337

That's what I love about it, though, it's basically like a "big lipped alligator moment", just comes out of nowhere after 6 minutes of the "slow lyrical movement" thing, and then suddenly goes back like nothing happened and you're like "wait, what the hell just happened?" - lol.

It's one of the things I love so much about Alkan, this sort of tongue-in-cheek randomness and over-the-top contrasting.

[AdamKuczynski]

@twooffour Yes, I've certainly come to appreciate that in his music. There are always plenty of surprising or even confusing elements in it. Perhaps that's why I rarely fully appreciate it when I listen to it for the first time (because I'm just wondering what on *earth* I had just heard), but grow to love it dearly after re-playing it a few times. I've gone through this exact process with Festin d'Esope, his entire Concerto, L'incendie au village voisin, and so on. 

[OrangeSodaKing]

My favorite movement of the piece, and my favorite slow movement ever composed (along with Ravel's Concerto in G)!