Title: A fine exponent of Alkan's music
Product review: McCallum's Alkan is quite special. Her clarity and colorful insights into the music are revealing. She's more faithful to the score than the average, and her dynamics are more contrasting. The Finale of the Symphonie is exciting, although not as passionate as Gibbons', with the only restriction of a lack of technical endurance in the middle of the movement, the brilliant passage before re-exposition. Even so, most of the time she negotiates the difficulties of the piano writing very well.The Magnard is not familiar to me, but I really liked it. Her performance is penetrating and inviting. It was a revelation to me.I didn't rate this CD a 5 star because of Alkan's performance of Marche Funebre and Chanson de La Folle Au Bord La Mer which sounded a little cold to me.
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