Alkan: Chamber Music

"If you'd just like to become acquainted with these astounding pieces without mortgaging your home, this budget-priced, more accurately presented reissue will serve quite nicely. Naxos's upfront, uncramped sound is marginally better balanced than on either the Valois or Timpani discs. And the Trio Alkan's more leisurely approach, while it scants an essential manic edge, is rife with nuance. Indeed, there is more music in these works than meets the ear in any of these performances-the convicted Alkanist will want them all. Recommended." Fanfare