Tansman: Piano Works / Fingerhut

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Chandos
Release Date
June 30, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TANSMAN, ALEXANDRE
    • PERFORMER
      Margaret Fingerhut
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 30, 2009
    • UPC
      095115152720
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10527
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Oberek: Vivo

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    2. No. 2. Moderato - Più lento - Tempo I

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    3. No. 3. Oberek: Molto vivo

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    4. No. 4. Andante espressivo

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    5. No. 5. Modéré (a Jan Smeterlin)

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    6. No. 6. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    7. No. 7. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    8. No. 8. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    9. No. 9. Oberek: Molto vivace - Molto meno mosso

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    10. No. 10. Berceuse: Lento

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    11. I. Allegro agreste

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    12. II. Cantilena: Largo

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    13. III. Danza Festiva: Molto allegro

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    14. I. Pastorale: Anime

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    15. II. Hymne: Lento

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    16. III. Rondo (perpetuum mobile): Presto

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    17. No. 1. Lento cantabile

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    18. No. 2. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    19. No. 3. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    20. No. 1. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    21. No. 2. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    22. No. 3. Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    23. No. 4. Lento

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    24. I. Notturno (a Beatrice Decamps): Moderato

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    25. II. Tempo di Blues (a Philippe Marietti): Andante cantabile

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    26. III. Tempo di Mazur (a Janusz Cegiella): Allegro con moto

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    27. IV. Canzonetta (a Pierre Hasquenoph): Lento

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    28. V. Caprice (a Eugene Indjic): A piacere

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    29. VI. Pastorale (a Irene et Tadeusz Zielinski): Lento

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    30. VII. Etude (pour Monique [Haas] et Marcel Mihalovici): Allegro vivace

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    31. VIII. Hommage a Liszt (a Lulu et Vladimir Jankelevitch): Andante cantabile

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

    32. IX. Berceuse polonaise (a la Direction et au Personnel des Editions Max Eschig): Tres lent

      Composer: Alexandre Tansman

      Performer: Margaret Fingerhut


Chandos has been attentive in promoting the orchestral works of Alexandre Tansman, who due to the vagaries of fashion has to a great extent been ignored. We now embark on the piano music and a deeply personal project for soloist Margaret Fingerhut. 'My curiosity about the piano music of Tansman began over 20 years ago when I encountered the delightfully languid Berceuse he wrote for the album of Hommages to Roussel, and which I recorded for Chandos. The fact that he was born in Lodz, Poland, where my great-grandparents also came from, spurred me on to find out more about him, and since then I have been assiduously collecting his piano works - quite a task as it turns out that in the course of his long composing career Tansman was nothing if not prolific!' 'I feel his music deserves to be revalued and heard by a new generation of listeners, and so I wanted to create a CD to present an overview of his unique style and musical language. While the influences of Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud and Stravinsky are apparent, along with jazz-inspired techniques, he himself professed his music to be rooted in his native Polish culture. So the starting point for this disc had to be his Mazurkas - after all, he wrote more of them than almost any other composer except for that other famous Polish exile-in-Paris, Chopin! Listen to his 2nd Mazurka to be transported to a world filled with gentle sweet melancholy. For me his piano music abounds in lyrical expression, tenderness, elegance, grace, good humour and exuberant virtuosity (he loved writing on three staves with huge leaps at great speed!). It seems such a shame that the forces of dogma and experimentalism which ruled Paris since the Second World War left so many casualties in their wake, composers like Tansman who determinedly stuck with neoclassicism and who were not afraid of melody. It is my hope that his individual voice can speak to us afresh'. Margaret Fingerhut displays her special artistry and élan to Tansman's music. Also Available: CHAN9887 Bloch Piano Sonata CHAN9818 Bainton Piano Works CHSA5041 Tansman Orchestral Works, Vol.1