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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Alexandre Tansman - Symphonies Vol. 3 (Oleg Caetani)


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Composer: Alexandre Tansman
  • (01) Symphonie [No. 2] in A minor
  • (05) Quatre Mouvements pour orchestre
  • (10) Symphonie concertante (Symphony No. 3)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Oleg Caetani, conductor

Date: 2008
Label: Chandos
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205065

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Review

With the three works on this disc, we are dealing with three different aspects of Polish-French-American composer Alexandre Tansman. In the Symphony [No. 2] from 1926, he is a neo-classical modernist à la Les Six with a crisp, vivacious style. In the Symphonie Concertante (Symphony No. 3) from 1931, he is a jazz-age shape-shifter àl a Gershwin with a bright, insouciant style. And in the much later Quatre Mouvement pour orchestre from 1968, he is somewhere past Stravinsky and heading out toward Boulez with a style that travels from harsh dissonance to clashing cacophony. As previously in this series dedicated to Tansman's symphonies, Oleg Caetani and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra play magnificently with more than polished professionalism. There's flash in the colors, muscle in the rhythms, and steadfast conviction in the interpretations. One feels the thrill of the Second Symphony's opening Allegro giusto, the dread in the Quatre Mouvement's opening Notturno, and the joie de vivre of the Sinfonia Concertante's central Tempo americano. Recorded in brilliant digital sound by Chandos, this disc should at least be heard by listeners attracted to the symphonies of Honegger, Roussel, and Dutilleux.

-- James Leonard, AllMusic

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Alexandre Tansman (12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of Jewish origin. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life, being granted French citizenship in 1938. His music is often said to be primarily neoclassical, drawing on his Polish Jewish heritage as well as his French musical influences. Tansman wrote more than 300 works, including 7 operas, 11 ballets, 6 oratorios, 80 orchestral pages (with 9 symphonies), and numerous works of chamber and piano music. Almost all his works have been now recorded on CDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Tansman

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Oleg Caetani (born 1956) is an Italian conductor. He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of the conductor and composer Igor Markevitch and his second wife Donna Topazia Caetani. Caetani studied with Nadia Boulanger, and also went to the Moscow Conservatory to study conducting with Kirill Kondrashin. He graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory in conducting with Ilya Musin. Among Caetani's recordings are the first complete cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies recorded by an Italian orchestra, and the symphonic cycles by Tchaikovsky and Gounod (Diapason d'or).

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