Eliane Reyes - Tansman: Piano Music (2014)

Tracklist
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01. Suite dans le style ancien: I. Entrée
02. Suite dans le style ancien: II. Sarabande
03. Suite dans le style ancien: III. Gavotte
04. Suite dans le style ancien: IV. Choral fugue
05. Suite dans le style ancien: V. Aria
06. Suite dans le style ancien: VI. Toccata
07. Ballade No. 1
08. Ballade No. 2
09. Ballade No. 3
10. Arabesques: No. 1, Intermezzo
11. Arabesques: No. 2, Mazurka (Hommage à Chopin)
12. Arabesques: No. 3, Nocturne
13. Arabesques: No. 4, Fanfare
14. Arabesques: No. 5, Berceuse
15. Arabesques: No. 6, Danza
16. 5 Impressions: No. 1, Calme
17. 5 Impressions: No. 2, Burlesque
18. 5 Impressions: No. 3, Triste
19. 5 Impressions: No. 4, Anime
20. 5 Impressions: No. 5, Nocturne
21. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 1, Prelude
22. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 2, Arioso
23. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 3, Interlude
24. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 4, Choral I
25. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 5, Invention
26. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 6, Choral II
27. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 7, Fuga
28. 8 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 8, Postlude

Of Polish origin, Alexandre Tansman arrived in Paris in 1919 where he soon joined the ranks of the most prominent composers and musicians of his time. This programme ranges from the Suite dans le style ancien written in the fashionable neo-baroque style of the 1920s and ’30s, to the poetic Arabesques, the joyful Cinq Impressions and, with their tragic overtones, the Ballades Nos. 1-3 which are among the composer’s most personal and original works. The post-war Eight Cantilenas were Tansman’s homage to the meditative aspects of J.S. Bach’s music. Eliane Reyes’s “memorably refined, dexterous and committed” (Gramophone) recording of Tansman’s 24 Intermezzi can be found on Naxos 8572266.

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