Composer: Alexandre Tansman
Performer: Christian Seibert
Orchestra: Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Conductor: Howard Griffiths
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 777449-2
Release: 2012
Size: 227 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Piano Concertino
01. I. Toccata – Allegro vivace
02. II. Intermezzo Chopiniano – Andante cantabile
03. III. Finale – Allegro risoluto
Stèle in memoriam d’Igor Stravinsky
04. No. 1, Elegia
05. No. 2, Studio ritmico
06. No. 3, Lamento
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
07. I. Allegro con moto (Completed by P. Moss)
08. II. Andante cantabile (Completed by P. Moss)
09. III. Vivace – Allegro deciso – Vivace (Completed by P. Moss)
10. Elegie a la memoire de Darius Milhaud
Alexandre Tansman was a close and lifelong friend of both Stravinsky and Milhaud and the pieces on this disc, Stèle and Élégie, are dedicated to these composers respectively. Throughout his extensive and multifaceted oeuvre, reminiscences not only of these composers, but also of Polish folk music and Asian pentatonic music can be clearly found.
Tansman composed his Concert Piece for the Left Hand whilst in American exile in 1943 but left it merely in the form of a piano score. For sixty-five years it remained unpublished until the Polish composer Piotr Moss produced a congenial orchestration in 2008 and cpo present the première recording.
