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Tansman: Piano Works / Fingerhut
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Tansman: Piano Works / Fingerhut

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Composer
TANSMAN, ALEXANDRE
Artist
Margaret Fingerhut
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Jun 30, 2009
Catalog #
CHAN 10527
UPC
095115152720

About

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

Tracklist 32 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Oberek: Vivo 01:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Oberek: Vivo
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  2. 2 No. 2. Moderato - Più lento - Tempo I 03:35
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Moderato - Più lento - Tempo I
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  3. 3 No. 3. Oberek: Molto vivo 00:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Oberek: Molto vivo
    Duration
    00:50
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  4. 4 No. 4. Andante espressivo 01:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Andante espressivo
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  5. 5 No. 5. Modéré (a Jan Smeterlin) 02:34
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Modéré (a Jan Smeterlin)
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  6. 6 No. 6. Moderato 01:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Moderato
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  7. 7 No. 7. Moderato 01:22
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Moderato
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  8. 8 No. 8. Moderato 01:34
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Moderato
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  9. 9 No. 9. Oberek: Molto vivace - Molto meno mosso 02:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Oberek: Molto vivace - Molto meno mosso
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  10. 10 No. 10. Berceuse: Lento 01:36
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Berceuse: Lento
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  11. 11 I. Allegro agreste 05:21
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Allegro agreste
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  12. 12 II. Cantilena: Largo 05:31
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Cantilena: Largo
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  13. 13 III. Danza Festiva: Molto allegro 03:28
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Danza Festiva: Molto allegro
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  14. 14 I. Pastorale: Anime 03:00
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Pastorale: Anime
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  15. 15 II. Hymne: Lento 02:47
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Hymne: Lento
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  16. 16 III. Rondo (perpetuum mobile): Presto 02:35
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Rondo (perpetuum mobile): Presto
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  17. 17 No. 1. Lento cantabile 03:33
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 1. Lento cantabile
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  18. 18 No. 2. Moderato 02:15
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 2. Moderato
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  19. 19 No. 3. Moderato 02:14
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 3. Moderato
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  20. 20 No. 1. Moderato 02:02
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. Moderato
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  21. 21 No. 2. Moderato 01:42
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. Moderato
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  22. 22 No. 3. Moderato 02:24
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 3. Moderato
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  23. 23 No. 4. Lento 01:12
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 4. Lento
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  24. 24 I. Notturno (a Beatrice Decamps): Moderato 01:52
    Track
    24
    Title
    I. Notturno (a Beatrice Decamps): Moderato
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  25. 25 II. Tempo di Blues (a Philippe Marietti): Andante cantabile 01:49
    Track
    25
    Title
    II. Tempo di Blues (a Philippe Marietti): Andante cantabile
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  26. 26 III. Tempo di Mazur (a Janusz Cegiella): Allegro con moto 01:04
    Track
    26
    Title
    III. Tempo di Mazur (a Janusz Cegiella): Allegro con moto
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  27. 27 IV. Canzonetta (a Pierre Hasquenoph): Lento 02:23
    Track
    27
    Title
    IV. Canzonetta (a Pierre Hasquenoph): Lento
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  28. 28 V. Caprice (a Eugene Indjic): A piacere 01:49
    Track
    28
    Title
    V. Caprice (a Eugene Indjic): A piacere
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  29. 29 VI. Pastorale (a Irene et Tadeusz Zielinski): Lento 02:02
    Track
    29
    Title
    VI. Pastorale (a Irene et Tadeusz Zielinski): Lento
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  30. 30 VII. Etude (pour Monique [Haas] et Marcel Mihalovici): Allegro vivace 02:00
    Track
    30
    Title
    VII. Etude (pour Monique [Haas] et Marcel Mihalovici): Allegro vivace
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  31. 31 VIII. Hommage a Liszt (a Lulu et Vladimir Jankelevitch): Andante cantabile 02:07
    Track
    31
    Title
    VIII. Hommage a Liszt (a Lulu et Vladimir Jankelevitch): Andante cantabile
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut
  32. 32 IX. Berceuse polonaise (a la Direction et au Personnel des Editions Max Eschig): Tres lent 01:37
    Track
    32
    Title
    IX. Berceuse polonaise (a la Direction et au Personnel des Editions Max Eschig): Tres lent
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Margaret Fingerhut