Composer: Alexandre Tansman
Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci, Fabrizio Meloni
Orchestra: Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Brian Schembri
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555079-2
Release: 2018
Size: 323 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Suite concertante
01. I. Nocturne. Adagio sostenuto
02. II. Toccata. Allegro deciso
03. III. Berceuse. Lento, molto cantabile
04. IV. Scherzino. Allegro con moto
Clarinet Concertino
05. I. Introduction et allegro
06. II. Arioso
07. III. Cadenza et danza populare
Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings
08. I. Ouverture
09. II. Dialogue
10. III. Scherzo
11. IV. Elégie
12. V. Canon
13. VI. Elégie
14. VII. Final
15. Adagio for String Orchestra
Following releases of ballet compositions and works for piano and orchestra, the focus now shifts to wind concertos by Alexandre Tansman. This production focuses on concertante works for woodwinds and orchestra composed by the Polish emigrant Tansman during the 1950s and 1960s. This music, thoroughly retrospective but in no way antiquated, mixes the profound layers of origins and manifold influences to which the composer was exposed during his years in Paris and the United States. Consequently, the results of these multifaceted layered structures so well worth hearing are situated in a world between Igor Stravinsky, the members of the Groupe des Six, and the music of the New World, which manifests itself not least in the form of jazz rhythms and styles.
