Alkan may have been the one pianist who could intimidate Liszt, but not everything he wrote was a superspectacular hypervirtuosic showpiece. Here’s a relatively simple piece, “Héraclite et Démocrite,” in which two ancient philosophers butt heads.
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Alkan may have been the one pianist who could intimidate Liszt, but not everything he wrote was a superspectacular hypervirtuosic showpiece. Here’s a relatively simple piece, “Héraclite et Démocrite,” in which two ancient philosophers butt heads.