Margaret Fingerhut - Tansman: Piano Works (2009)

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Margaret Fingerhut - Tansman: Piano Works (2009)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10527

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.

Composer: Alexandre Tansman
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut

Reviews: Though known today as a composer, Tansman was trained from his youth as a concert pianist. Winning three top prizes at the 1919 Composers’ Competition (organized by Paderewski, and the first of its kind in a newly independent Poland) set his future course. He subsequently moved to Paris, became a French citizen, and crafted a compositional style that combined Gallic neo-Classicism with Romantic sensibilities. But Tansman remained active as a pianist, and wrote music for the instrument throughout his life. Fingerhut has made an interesting selection of it here, dating back to 1915–1928 with his Recueil de mazurkas and concluding in 1980 with his Album d’amis.


Continuity is apparent from the start. Though Tansman did intensify the level of dissonance in some of his orchestral works during the late 1940s—his final two symphonies from 1948 and 1958 respectively provide evidence of that—little change is apparent in the spare, Ravelian Quatre nocturnes of 1952, dedicated to Stravinsky. The language and structure of the nine varied miniatures that comprise the Album d’amis are still more approachable and typical of the composer throughout his life: heartfelt or witty, exuberant or melancholy, always elegantly phrased and flawlessly crafted—sufficient to supply the needs of a composer whose imagination was not so impoverished that it repeatedly required reinvention through new musical systems over the years.


One would look in vain among these works for the profundity of his best orchestral slow movements, such as those that grace the Second and Seventh Symphonies. The sound world of his piano music was formed from the likes of Ravel and Debussy, with secondary influences that included Stravinsky, Gershwin, and (in the bookend movements of the Sonata rustica ) Poulenc. The span of these movements is relatively short, their manner intimate rather than monumental. Their message is meant to touch, and delight. Admirers of Tansman’s models could do far worse than discover his œuvre.


Margaret Fingerhut is a consistently sensitive, intelligent performer. There are pieces here, such as the Quatre nocturnes , which could benefit from a more pointillistic approach, and others, among them the Sonata rustica , which might benefit from less gentility and more high spirits. But overall, she brings a strong technique and musicianly instincts to her performances, turning in a fine performance as Tansman’s advocate. Some of the highlights on this disc include her playfully stamping third mazurka in the Recueil de mazurkas ; the bluesy, slow movement of the Troisième sonatine played with refreshingly straightforward lyricism; and the clarity of cross rhythms and accents in the Étude from the Album d’amis.


With good sound, a fine selection of music, and attractive liner notes, this is easily recommended for both its music and its performer.

Tracklisting:

Recueil de Mazurkas (19115-28) 17:56
for Piano
À Albert Roussel
1 1 (Oberek.) Vivo 1:14
2 2 Moderato - Più lento - Tempo I 3:35
3 3 (Oberek.) Molto vivo 0:50
4 4 Andante espressivo 1:25
5 5 Modéré (à Jan Smeterlin) 2:34
6 6 Moderato 1:21
7 7 Moderato 1:22
8 8 Moderato 1:34
9 9 (Oberek.) Molto vivace - Molto meno mosso 2:22
10 10 (Berceuse.) Lento 1:36

Sonata rustica (1925) 14:21
Piano Solo
À Maurice Ravel
11 I Allegro agreste - Un poco meno vivo - Più lento - 5:21
12 II Cantilena. Largo 5:31
13 III Danza festiva. Molto allegro - Un poco meno mosso - 3:28

Troisieme Sonatine (1933) 8:22
for Piano
À Walter Spies en souvenir de Bali (V. 1933)
14 I Pastorale. Animé 3:00
15 II Hymne. Lento 2:47
16 III Rondo (perpetuum mobile). Presto 2:35

Trois Preludes en forme de Blues (1937) 8:02
for Piano
Pour Bernard Laberge
17 1 Lento cantabile 3:33
18 2 Moderato 2:15
19 3 Moderato 2:14

Quatre Nocturnes (1952) 7:22
for Piano
À Igor Stravinsky pour le 18 Juin 1952
20 I Moderato 2:02
21 II Moderato 1:42
22 III Moderato 2:24
23 IV Lento 1:12

Album d'amis (1980) 16:46
Nine Miniatures for Piano
24 I Notturno - à Béatrice Decamps. Moderato 1:52
25 II Tempo di Blues - à Philippe Marietti. Andante cantabile 1:49
26 III Tempo di Mazur - à Janusz Cegiella. Allegro con moto 1:04
27 IV Canzonetta - à Pierre Hasquenoph. Lento 2:23
28 V Caprice - à Eugène Indjic. A piacere 1:49
29 VI Pastorale - à Irène et Tadeusz Zielinski. Lento 2:02
30 VII Étude - pour Monique (Haas) et Marcel Mihalovici. Allegro vivace 2:00
31 VIII Hommage à Liszt - à Lulu et Vladimir Jankelevitch. Andante cantabile 2:07
32 IX Berceuse Polonaise - à la Direction et au Personnel des Éditions Max Eschig. Très lent 1:37
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