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…Margaret Fingerhut has an unerring sense of when to indulge the flamboyance, as well as of how to introduce a poetic quality without becoming unduly sentimental. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2009

Release Date: 1st Jun 2009
Catalogue No: CHAN10527
Label: Chandos
Length: 73 minutes

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Tansman: Recueil de Mazurkas

Work length18:04

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Margaret Fingerhut

I. Oberek. Vivo

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II. Moderato - Più lento

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III. Oberek. Molto vivo

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IV. Andante espressivo

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V. Modéré

Track length2:34

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VI. Moderato

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VII. Moderato

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VIII. Moderato

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IX. Oberek. Molto vivace - Molto meno mosso

Track length2:22

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X. Berceuse. Lento

Track length1:47

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Tansman: Sonata Rustica

Work length14:29

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Margaret Fingerhut

I. Allegro agreste - Un poco meno vivo

Track length5:21

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II. Cantilena. Largo

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III. Danza festiva. Molto allegro - Un poco meno mosso

Track length3:37

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Tansman: Sonatine No. 3

Work length8:29

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I. Pastorale. Animé

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II. Hymne. Lento

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III. Rondo. Presto

Track length2:42

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Tansman: Trois Preludes en forme de Blues

Work length8:09

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Margaret Fingerhut

I. Lento cantabile

Track length3:33

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II. Moderato

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III. Moderato

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Tansman: Quatre Nocturnes

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I. Moderato

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II. Moderato

Track length1:42

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III. Moderato

Track length2:24

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IV. Lento

Track length1:21

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Tansman: Album des Amis

Work length16:41

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Margaret Fingerhut

I. Notturno (à Béatrice Decamps). Moderato

Track length1:51

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II. Tempo di Blues (à Philippe Marietti). Andante cantabile

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III. Tempo di Mazur (à Janusz Cegiella). Allegro con moto

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IV. Canzonetta (à Pierre Hasquenoph). Lento

Track length2:23

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V. Caprice (à Eugène Indjic). A piacere

Track length1:49

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VI. Pastorale (à Irène et Tadeusz Zielinski). Lento

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VII. Étude (pour Monique et Marcel Mihalovici). Allegro vivace

Track length2:00

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VIII. Hommage à Liszt (à Lulu et Vladimir Jankelevitch). Andante cantabile

Track length2:07

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IX. Berceuse Polonaise (à la Direction et au Personnel des Éditions Max Eschig). Très lent

Track length1:36

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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.

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September 2009

…Margaret Fingerhut has an unerring sense of when to indulge the flamboyance, as well as of how to introduce a poetic quality without becoming unduly sentimental.

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