my favourite alkan cd, and the cd that id reccomend as anyones first alkan cd is Hamelin's recording of the 'Grand Sonata', 'Sonatine', 'le festin d'esope' (his most famous piece) ,and a lovely short lyrical piece.
My highlights from that disk are the 'festin' etude - which is the theme and variations to end all themes and variations - and the finale from the sonatine - for its extreme fury, rage, edge-of-your-seat tension and excitement, and at the very end - its insane suicidal manifestation of EARTH SHATTERING AGGRESSION!
very delicious
