ALKAN TALK now on Youtube

A BBC Radio 3 talk from 1994 has surfaced on youtube. John Lenehan joins Ronald Smith and Marc Andre Hamelin to discuss the enigmatic French Composer Charles Valentin Alkan. In 1988 John Lenehan was the first prize winner of the Alkan Centenary International Piano Competition and devoted much time to learning and broadcasting some of the less often played works of this fascinating composer. This lengthy programme is in two parts.