Composer: Tibor Harsányi, Bohuslav Martinů, Marcel Mihalovici, Alexandre Tansman, Alexander Tcherepnin
Performer: Wen-Sinn Yang, Oliver Triendl
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Oehms
Catalogue: OC489
Release: 2021
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Harsányi: Rhapsody for Cello & Piano
Tansman: 2 Pieces For Cello & Piano
02. No. 1, Mélodie
03. No. 2, Capriccio
04. Martinů: Variations on a Slovak folksong for Cello & Piano, H. 378
Harsányi: Cello Sonata
05. I. Sempre allegro
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Vivace
Tcherepnin: Songs and Dances, Op. 84
08. No. 1, Georgian Song
09. No. 2, Tartar Dance
10. No. 3, Russian Song
11. No. 4, Kazakh Dance
12. Mihalovici: Sonata in the Character of a Lyric Scene, Op. 108
After the signal event that was World War I, young, hopeful, gifted composers trooped into the French metropolis. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term “École de Paris” (School of Paris) for the foreign composers then living in Paris, especially the Hungarian Tibor Harsányi (1898-1954), Pole Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Czech Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Russian Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), and Romanian Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), whose works he specialized in disseminating.
All five composers came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martinů, died there. All five initially attempted to translate the principal aspects of the difficult-to-notate idioms of folk music from their homelands into standard musical notation. Some works can be heard in a world premiere recording.