Utwory na płycie:

• CD01 TK 01 Alexandre Tansman Symphony [No 2] (1926) Allegro giusto Un poco meno vivo Tempo i [ ] Tempo I
• CD01 TK 02 Alexandre Tansman Symphony [No 2] (1926) Lento Un poco più mosso Animando Tempo I
• CD01 TK 03 Alexandre Tansman Symphony [No 2] (1926) Scherzo Allegretto grazioso Meno mosso Tempo di mazurka Tempo I
• CD01 TK 04 Alexandre Tansman Symphony [No 2] (1926) Final Allegro molto Tempo giusto Quasi martellando
• CD01 TK 05 Alexandre Tansman Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre (1967 68) Notturno Lento
• CD01 TK 06 Alexandre Tansman Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre (1967 68) Perpetuum mobile Presto possible Coda
• CD01 TK 07 Alexandre Tansman Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre (1967 68) Interlude Lento
• CD01 TK 08 Alexandre Tansman Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre (1967 68) Elegia Lento cantabile Poco a poco accelerando e crescendo
• CD01 TK 09 Alexandre Tansman Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre (1967 68) Ostinato (Toccata) Allegro moderato mecanico
• CD01 TK 10 Alexandre Tansman Symphonie concertante (Symphony No 3) (1931) Sinfonia Allegro con anima Con moto
• CD01 TK 11 Alexandre Tansman Symphonie concertante (Symphony No 3) (1931) Tempo americano Allegro molto
• CD01 TK 12 Alexandre Tansman Symphonie concertante (Symphony No 3) (1931) Andante pesante Crotchet=66 Più lento
• CD01 TK 13 Alexandre Tansman Symphonie concertante (Symphony No 3) (1931) Finale Allegro molto Meno mosso Allargando

Tansman A - Symphonies Volume 3

Born in 1897 to an affluent Jewish family in Łódz´, Alexandre Tansman left Poland for Paris at the age of twenty, after winning three prizes at the first competition for composers organised in the newly independent country. A protégé of Ravel – cosmopolitan, erudite and charming – he soon became an important guest at Parisian artistic salons:

We would get together, make music, and meet people from around the world. […] There was no division between generations. I was very close friends with people much older than me, such as Ravel, Roussel, Schmitt, later Stravinsky, as well as those of my generation, such as Les Six, and even younger composers. Festival of Venice. His rise to fame was meteoric. Commissions by – and European performances with – Koussevitzky (two piano concertos, of 1925 and 1927) were followed by a concert tour of the U.S. in 1927– 28. Tansman was the soloist in the Second Piano Concerto, dedicated to Charlie Chaplin who was present during the performance given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A tour of the world followed in 1932 –33, Tansman visiting India, Japan, China, the Philippines, Java and Bali. He played for Gandhi and the Emperor of Japan. His music appeared in the repertoire of the most famous performers of his time, including the conductors Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy and Walter Damrosch, the pianist Artur Rubinstein, violinist Jascha Heifetz, cellist Pablo Casals, and guitarist Andrés Segovia. With exceptional conductors as champions of his music, Tansman quickly reached international prominence. In fact, when Karol Szymanowski and George Gershwin came to Paris, it was Tansman who introduced them to his friends and who arranged for concerts and reviews of their compositions



Introduced to leading contemporary conductors, Tansman focused his compositional activities of the 1920s and 1930s on symphonic music, which was featured in concert series by Vladimir Golschmann and Serge Koussevitzky, as well as in other avant-garde music contexts, such as events of the Société musicale indépendante in Paris and the