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Alexandre Tansman
Person · male · Poland · Łódź · born 1897 · died 1986 · recording since 1992
Franco-Polish musician (1897-1986)
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Debut release: Symphony no. 5
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Album: Concerto for Orchestra / Six Etudes for Orchestra / Capriccio for Orchestra
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Biography
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Biography
Alexander Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish and French composer, pianist and conductor. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer.
Early life and heritage
Tansman was born and raised in Łódź, Congress Poland. His parents were of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. His father Moshe Tantzman (1868–1908) died when Alexander was 10 and his mother Hannah (née Gourvitch, 1872–1935) reared him and his older sister Teresa alone.
Tansman later wrote:
[M]y father's family came from Pinsk and I knew of a famous rabbi related to him. My father died very young, and there were certainly two, or more branches of the family, as ours was quite wealthy: we had in Lodz several domestics, two governesses (French and German) living with us etc. My father had a sister who settled in Israel and married there. I met her family on my [concert] tours in Israel. ... My family was, as far as religion is concerned, quite liberal, not practicing. My mother was the daughter of Prof. Leon Gourvitch, quite a famous man.
Tansman explained his later Francophile tendencies:
I had always been attracted to French culture. I had a governess who instilled in us a love of France. My family was very Francophile; we often spoke French at home and we had a vast French library. Ordinarily, Eastern European musicians went to Germany to pursue their careers. As for me, I chose Paris and have never regretted it. Nevertheless, I have returned to Poland a number of times.
Career
Among his first music teachers were Wojciech Gawronski (a student of Zygmunt Noskowski, Moritz Moszkowski and Theodor Leschetizky) and Naum Podkaminer (a student of Hermann Graedener and Richard Hofmann).
Although he began his musical studies at the Lodz Conservatory, his study was in law at the University of Warsaw. On January 8, 1919, Tansman won the first composers' competition held in independent Poland, and gave a series of concerts at the Warsaw Philharmonic in the following months. In the fall of 1919, encouraged by his mentors Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski and Zdzisław Birnbaum, Tansman decided to continue his musical career in Paris. The first artists he was fortunate to meet shortly after his arrival were Moritz Moszkowski and Sarah Bernhardt. In Paris, his musical ideas were appreciated, influenced and favoured by composers Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Jacques Ibert, Igor Stravinsky, musicologists and critics Émile Vuillermoz, Boris de Schloezer, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Arthur Hoérée, conductors André Caplet, Gaston Poulet, Vladimir Golschmann. Though Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud tried to persuade him to join Les Six, he declined, stating a need for creative independence. Nevertheless, he was one of the earliest and leading representatives of neoclassicism, along with Stravinsky, Les Six, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Alfredo Casella. He was also one of the most respected members of the international music group École de Paris, along with Bohuslav Martinů, Tibor Harsányi, Alexander Tcherepnin, Marcel Mihalovici, Conrad Beck.
From the 1920s Tansman's rise to fame was meteoric, with works conducted and championed by such world-famous baton masters as Arturo Toscanini, Tullio Serafin, Willem Mengelberg, Walter Damrosch, Sir Henry Wood, Serge Koussevitzky, Pierre Monteux, Otto Klemperer, Rhené-Baton, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, Walther Straram, Hermann Abendroth, Leopold Stokowski, Erich Kleiber, Sir Adrian Boult, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Frederick Stock, Eugene Ormandy. Tansman follows Paderewski as the second Polish composer whose theatre piece – ballet Sextuor – was staged by the Metropolitan Opera (1927).
As early as the first half of the 1920s, Belgian music critic and composer Georges Systermans wrote that Tansman's musical personality "combines poetic genius with Latin culture". Tansman's works started to be frequently performed in programs with pieces by Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky and Gian Francesco Malipiero on the one hand, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov on the other. Each time he visited Germany, he was invited to Arnold Schönberg's home, who at that time lectured in Berlin. In 1927 Nicolas Slonimsky called Tansman a "musical plenipotentiary of Poland in the Western World".
From the mid-1920s, and into the decades that followed, Tansman's works were performed in some of the best concert halls in the world, such as Salle Gaveau, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Carnegie Hall, Opéra National de Paris, New York Philharmonic, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Salle Pleyel, Boston Symphony Hall, Théâtre Mogador, Opéra National de Lyon, Château Royal de Laeken, Théâtre de la Ville, Palais-Royal, Berlin State Opera, Royal Albert Hall, Metropolitan Opera, Severance Hall, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, DAR Constitution Hall, Cologne Opera, Tokyo Hibiya Public Hall, Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo National Theatre, Wigmore Hall, La Fenice, Academy of Music (Philadelphia), De Doelen, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Opéra de Nice, Orchestra Hall, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Hollywood Bowl, Powell Hall, Mann Auditorium, Johannesburg City Hall, Teatro Colón, Grand Auditorium, Royce Hall.
In 1931, a book authored by Irving Schwerke and titled Alexandre Tansman. Compositeur polonais (Alexander Tansman. The Polish Composer) was published in Paris. The book was devoted to the work of Tansman until 1930 and its reception, to his individual style and the aesthetics of his oeuvre. It also contained Tansman's short biography and the first catalogue of his works and their European and American premieres. Tansman's music – according to Schwerke – "is undoubtedly the most complete homage that any Polish composer of his generation has paid to his country. It occupies a prominent place among the most important artistic manifestations of the present day".
In 1932–1933, Tansman made an unprecedented artistic tour around the world – starting with the United States, through Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Ceylon, India and Egypt, to Italy. He was honored by Mahatma Gandhi and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. In Tokyo, Tansman was granted honorary membership of the Imperial Academy of Music and awarded Golden Ji Ji Shimpo Medal in recognition of his notable contribution to the world of arts.
As Marcel Mihalovici noted, Tansman was one of the most prominent contemporary representatives of the centuries-old tradition of École de Paris: "This included musicians at Notre-Dame Cathedral during the Renaissance, and later Lully, Mozart, and Wagner. Not to mention Chopin, Falla, Enescu, Honegger, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Copland, and certainly our old colleague Alexander Tansman".
In June 1938, four years after Stravinsky and in the same year as Bruno Walter, Tansman was granted French citizenship by the last president of the Third Republic Albert Lebrun. Tansman fled Europe as his Jewish background put him in danger with Hitler's rise to power. He moved to Los Angeles, thanks to the efforts of his friend Charlie Chaplin in founding a committee visa. In 1941 he could join there the circle of famous emigrated artists and intellectuals that included Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Mann, Arnold Schoenberg, Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, Emil Ludwig, Aldous Huxley, Lion Feuchtwanger, Man Ray, Eugène Berman, Jean Renoir. During this time, he also met and befriended Golo Mann as well as Sholem Asch.
During his American years Tansman toured extensively as pianist and conductor and wrote a wealth of music, e.g. three symphonies, two quartets, works for piano. In 1944 he accepted Nathaniel Shilkret's invitation to co-create Genesis Suite, alongside Arnold Schoenberg, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Ernst Toch, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In the 1940s, he also wrote a few scores for Hollywood movies: i.e. Flesh and Fantasy, starring Barbara Stanwyck, a biopic of the Australian medical researcher Sister Elizabeth Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell, and Paris Underground, starring Constance Bennett. For the 1946 Academy Awards ceremony, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, for Paris Underground. In 1948, Tansman published a book on Igor Stravinsky, the result of a friendship between the two composers during the years of exile in the United States.
In 1946 Tansman returned to Paris and his musical career started again all over Europe. His works, with performances at times reaching over 500 a year, were performed by the best orchestras and conductors, such as Jascha Horenstein, Rafael Kubelik, André Cluytens, Carlos Chávez, Paul Kletzki, Charles Munch, Bruno Maderna, Paul van Kempen, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Ferenc Fricsay, Charles Bruck, Øivin Fjeldstad, Eugène Bigot, Franz André, Jean Fournet, Franz Waxman, Georges Tzipine, Pedro de Freitas Branco, Alfred Wallenstein, Eduard Flipse, Robert Whitney, Manuel Rosenthal, Roger Wagner, Jean Périsson, Vassil Kazandjiev.
Despite Tansman's numerous performances far away from his home in France, he did not return to the United States after the 1946 end of his California residency. This eventually reduced the number of Americans who knew who he was.
As a ballet composer, for decades Tansman collaborated with the most eminent choreographers like Olga Preobrajenska, Rudolf von Laban, Jean Börlin, Adolph Bolm, Kurt Jooss, Ernst Uthoff, Françoise Adret.
In 1966, he was awarded the Hector Berlioz Prize. In 1977, in recognition of his contribution to European culture, Tansman was granted membership (after the late Dmitri Shostakovich) of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. In 1978, he was awarded the Music Prize of the Académie Française, and in 1986 – the highest Commander grade of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Notable students of Tansman include Cristóbal Halffter, Leonardo Balada, Carmelo Bernaola, Yüksel Koptagel.
During the last period of his life, he began to reestablish connections to Poland, though his career and family kept him in France, where he lived until his death in Paris in 1986. Since 1996, in his native city of Łódź, Alexander Tansman Association for the Promotion of Culture has been organizing the Alexander Tansman International Festival and Competition of Musical Personalities (Tansman Festival).
Twenty years after the composer's death, in 2006 Henryk Górecki wrote his long-awaited 4th Symphony, which he named Tansman Episodes by no accident. Górecki left a cryptogram that explains the way he created the theme for the symphony, using musical letters from the first and last names of "Aleksander Tansman".
Private life
Tansman's first wife was Anna E. Broçiner of Romanian-Swiss descent, whose family served to Royal Household of the Romanian ruling dynasty. They divorced in 1932. In 1934 he fell in love with the princess Nadejda de Bragança, daughter of Miguel, Duke de Viseu. They remained a couple until 1936. In 1937 he married a noted French pianist Colette Cras, student of Lazare Lévy and the daughter of Jean Cras, rear admiral and major general of the port of Brest, who was also a composer. They had two children.
Music
Tansman was not only an internationally recognized composer, but was also a virtuoso pianist and conductor. From the 1920s, he regularly performed as pianist at Carnegie Hall and Salle Pleyel, Wigmore Hall, Salle Gaveau. He performed five concert tours in the United States, the first one as a soloist under Sergei Koussevitzky with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1927–1928).
Many musicologists have demonstrated that Tansman's music is written in the French neoclassical style of his adopted home and the Polish national style of his birthplace, also drawing on his Jewish heritage and American dance idioms. What has often escaped attention is the significance of Edvard Grieg in the development of Tansman's earliest musical thought, which gave him the notion of "purity of design and bequeathed to him heed for folk tunes", and later on – the influence of Albert Roussel and on the other hand of Paul Dukas, which was sometimes even more distinctive than that of Igor Stravinsky, who helped him recover an absolute music form and traditional pre-Romantic aesthetics. In his departure from conventional tonality, Tansman was compared to Alexander Scriabin, whom he met personally in 1914. He adopted the extended harmonies of Maurice Ravel, since 1919 a central figure in his musical career. Furthermore, Tansman emphasized that "Ravel helped me develop a sense of economy of means, cultivate an intimate relationship between line and means of expression, and resist empty musical prattle". The composer himself also admitted and pointed to the significance and influence of Béla Bartók and Arnold Schoenberg as well, but he stressed that it should not be considered from a systematic point of view. However, both influences, that of Ravel and at the same time that of Schoenberg, were noticed by Alexis Roland-Manuel in Tansman's Little Suite (1919), a piece already stamped with a clear mark of the composer's ever stronger personality.
Despite his accession to the musical avant-garde, Tansman's style was never characterised by any particular radicalism, though he applied polytonality as early as 1916 (The Polish Album) and in the following years strongly contributed to its popularization worldwide. His original style, that has already manifested in the early 1920s – what was especially emphasized after the Paris premiere of his String Quartet No. 2 (1922) – was often characterised as a combination of expressive colouring, intense lyrical qualities and prolific melodic inventiveness with the ideal clarity, aristocratic elegance and precision of structure. A number of French, Belgian, Dutch, German, Austrian, Italian, Spanish and American critics admired his mastery in orchestration, instrumentation and the use of counterpoint. They spoke of the "Tansman phenomenon" and pointed to his sophisticated music language, including such of his trademarks as individual approach to form, where he introduced the so-called "bridges" or "pliers", his own expanded harmonic structures called "Tansman chords" or "the skyscrapers" and later the characteristic Tansmanian rhythmic structures.
According to Alejo Carpentier, Tansman was "one of the most gifted musical personalities of our times".
A Polish artist whose music had a global influence, Tansman interwove Polish music with a new modern language and aesthetics of the 20th century. Karol Szymanowski, fifteen years older than Tansman, also mixed Polish influences with other ethnic influences, but Tansman transcended 19th-century musical poetics and German patterns much more than Szymanowski. Moreover, Tansman became the first composer in the history of Polish music to combine an overt and predominantly classicist orientation with such a wide output and substantial achievements in contemporary art.
Tansman always described himself as a Polish composer: "It is obvious that I owe much to France, but anyone who has ever heard my compositions cannot have doubt that I have been, am and forever will be a Polish composer". After Frédéric Chopin, Tansman may be considered as one of the leading proponents of traditional Polish forms such as the mazurka or the polonaise. They were often inspired by and written in homage to Chopin. For these works, which ranged from light-hearted miniatures to virtuoso show-pieces, Tansman drew on traditional Polish folk themes, adapted them to his style, thus enriched melodic and harmonic means of modern music language, as well as its instrumental colour and rhythmic variation. However, he did not write straight settings of the folk songs, but followed the path of Bela Bartók and Manuel de Falla, as he states in an interview:
I did not use popular themes per se. I used, however, their general melodic contour. Polish folklore is abundantly rich. I think that, along with Spanish folklore, it is the richest in possibilities. I was familiar with Polish folklore very early. ... This folklore remained strongly present in my musical sensitivity but only as folklore imaginé. I have never used an actual Polish folk song in its original form, nor have I tried to reharmonize one. I find that modernizing a popular song spoils it. It must be preserved in its original harmonization. But Polish character is not solely expressed through folklore. There is something intangible in my music that reveals an aspect of my Polish origin.
As Irving Schwerke concluded: "Deeply Polish, thanks to France, Tansman became universal".
The key determining Tansman's artistic stance, was his constantly repeated efforts to create a new classical style. It rather meant a broader concept of being a modern classicist than sticking to neoclassical current or any other exclusive system. Although the discrepancy between Tansman's composing practice and the basic principles of neoclassicism could be observed in the 1940s, the signs of such an attitude were clearly present in his earlier works. Nevertheless, after World War II, Tansman implemented more radical techniques. The afterwar European premiere of his Sextuor à cordes (1940) heralded a "new Tansman style". He introduced more textural contrasts and metro-rhythmical complexity (Musique pour orchestre – Symphony No. 8, 1948), applied clusters (opera Sabbataï Zevi, 1957–1958), experimented with new genres and was interested in purely qualitative characteristics of sounds. The coexistence of various constructing principles in one form – an idea of integrating musical material, which he had applied and developed in his composing practice already before the war – led to the clash of different types of expression, which strengthened the drama, dynamics and power of presentation of his music. All this without breaking up with the ceaseless pursuit of his music: to find a new classical style.
When reviewing Tansman's oratorio Isaiah, the Prophet in 1955, Alfred Frankenstein and Herbert Donaldson considered it "should be counted among major works of religious music" and admired "the composer's genius".
Tansman composed prolifically in most genres and wrote more than 300 works, including 7 operas, 10 ballets, 6 oratorios, 80 orchestral pieces (with 9 symphonies), virtuoso concertos and substantial body of chamber music, among them 8 string quartets, tens of pieces for piano, as well as pieces for the radio theatres and pedagogical works. He is also known for his guitar pieces, mostly written for Andrés Segovia – in particular the Mazurka (1925), Cavatine (1950), Suite in modo polonico (1962), Variations sur un theme de Scriabine (1972). Segovia frequently performed the works in recordings and on tour; they are today part of the standard repertoire. Tansman's music has been performed by such artists as singers Marya Freund, Jane Bathori, Madeleine Grey, Fanély Revoil, Suzanne Danco, Jean Giraudeau, Denise Duval, Freda Betti, Xavier Depraz, Jane Rhodes, Andrée Esposito, flautists Louis Fleury, Maxence Larrieu, clarinetist Louis Cahuzac, harpsichordist Marcelle de Lacour, pianists Jonathan Plowright, Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos, Léo-Pol Morin, Mieczysław Horszowski, Walter Gieseking, Youra Guller, Jan Smeterlin, Robert Schmitz, Dimitri Tiomkin, Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, José Iturbi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Alicia de Larrocha, violinists Stefan Frenkel, Bronisław Huberman, Hélène Jourdan-Morhange, Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Mogilevsky, Henri Temianka, Jascha Heifetz, cellists Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Maurice Maréchal, Enrico Mainardi, Gaspar Cassadó, organist Marie-Louise Girod, quartets Pro Arte, Burgin, Budapest, Calvet, Paganini, Pascal, Parrenin, trio Pasquier.
Almost all his works have been now recorded on CDs.
Selected recordings
Symphonie no. 5, Stele, Quatre mouvements – Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Meir Minsky, conductor – Marco Polo, Naxos – 1991
Complete Music for String Quartet: String Quartets nos. 2–8 – Silesian String Quartet – Etcetera – 1992
Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas – Daniel Blumenthal, piano – Etcetera – 1993
Concerto pour orchestre, Etudes for orchestra, Capriccio for orchestra – Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida, conductor – Marco Polo, Naxos – 1995
Piano Concerto no. 2 – Polish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Zygmunt Rychert, conductor, Marek Drewnowski, piano – Alexander Tansman Association for the Promotion of Culture, Joseph Hofmann Foundation – 1996
Fantaisie – Igor Zubkovski, cello, Irina Khovanskaia, piano – Alexander Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities, DUX – 1996
Violin Concerto, Cinq Pieces, Quatre danses polonaises, Danse de la Sorciere, Rapsodie polonaise – Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Le Monnier, conductor, Beata Halska, violin – Olympia – 2000
Divertimento, Sinfonia piccola, Sinfoniettas nos. 1, 2 – Virtuosi di Praga, Israel Yinon, conductor, Koch-Schwann – 2000
Bric a Brac, Symphonie no. 4 – Bamberger Symphoniker, Israel Yinon, conductor – Koch-Schwann – 2000
Cello concerto, Fantaisie for cello and orchestra, The Ten Commandments – Radio-Philharmonie Hannover, Israel Yinon, conductor, Sebastian Hess, cello – Koch-Schwann – 2001
Isaie le prophete – Sinfonia Varsovia, Wojciech Michniewski, conductor, Alberto Mizrahi, tenor – City of Lodz, Alexander Tansman Association for the Promotion of Culture – 2004
Genesis Suite – Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Tovah Feldshuh, Barbara Feldon, David Margulies, Fritz Weaver, Isaiah Sheffer – speakers – Milken Family Foundation, Naxos – 2004
Suite in modo polonico, Cavatina – Andres Segovia, guitar – Deutsche Grammophon – 2004, 2006
Musique pour orchestre – Symphonie no. 8 – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, conductor – Centrum Nederlandse Muziek, Radio Netherlands International, NM Classics – 2005
Symphonies nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, Quatre mouvements – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Oleg Caetani, conductor – Chandos – 2006–2008
Variations sur un theme de Frescobaldi, Triptych, Musique pour cordes, Partita for string orchestra – Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor – Alexander Tansman Association for the Promotion of Culture, Polish Radio – 2006
Le Serment – Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Choeur de Radio France, Alain Atinoglu, conductor, Helene Collerette, violon, Marie Devellereau, Jean-Sebastein Bou, Fabrice Dallis, Alain Gabriel, Delphine Haidan – soloists, Eric Genovese, reciter – Radio France, Harmonia Mundi – 2007
Sinfoniettas nos. 1, 2, Sinfonia piccola, Sinfonie de chambre – Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Oleg Caetani, conductor – Chandos – 2009
Piano Concerto no. 2 – Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Steven Sloane, conductor, David Greilsammer, piano – Naïve – 2010
Clarinet Concerto, Concertino for oboe, clarinet and string orchestra, Six Mouvements – Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk, conductor, Laurent Decker, oboe, Jean-Marc Fessard, clarinet – Naxos – 2011
Piano Concertino, Piece concertante, Elegie, Stele – Branderburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths, conductor, Christian Seibert, piano – CPO – 2012
From Trio to Octet: Suite-Divertissement, Musica a cinque, Musique a six, Sextuor a cordes, Sonatina da camera, Tombeau de Chopin – Silesian String Quartet, Beata Bilinska, piano, Joanna Liberadzka, harpe, Jan Krzeszowiec, flute, Piotr Szymyslik, clarinet, Roman Widaszek, clarinet, Adam Krzeszowiec, cello, Krzysztof Firlus, double bass – Alexander Tansman Association for the Promotion of Culture, Classica – 2012
Triptyque, Isaie le prophete – The Zimbler Sinfonietta, Choeur et Orchestre Philharmonique de la Radio d'Hilversum, Paul van Kempen, conductor – Forgotten Records – 2012
Music for violin and piano: Sonatas, Sonatinas, Romance, Fantaisie – Klaidi Sahatçi, violin, Giorgio Koukl, piano – Naxos – 2015
Suite for oboe and orchestra, Clarinet Concerto, Concertino for oboe, clarinet and string orchestra, Adagio for string orchestra – Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Brian Schembri, conductor, Diego Dini Ciacci, oboe, Fabrizio Meloni, clarinet – CPO – 2016
Ballet Music: Sextuor, Bric a Brac – Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski, Lukasz Borowicz – conductors – Tansman Festival – CPO – 2017
Kol Nidrei – Ensemble Choral Copernic, Itai Daniel, conductor, Sebastien Obrecht, tenor, Nicole Wiener, organ – Institut Europeen des Musiques Juives – 2018
11 Interludes, Hommage a Arthur Rubinstein, 2 Pieces hebraiques, Prelude et Toccata, 6 Caprices, Etude-studio – Giorgio Koukl, piano – Grand Piano – 2019
The Polish Rhapsody – Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kasprzyk, conductor – The National Frederic Chopin Institute, NIFCCD – 2019
Isaiah, The Prophet – Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Choir, Paul van Kempen, conductor, Cornelis Kalkman, tenor – Decca – 2020
Danse de la Sorciere – Les solistes de l'Orchestre de Paris, Laurent Wagschal, piano – Indésens Records – 2020
Musique de cour – Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ben Glassberg, conductor, Thibaut Garcia, guitar – Erato Records – 2020
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 24 | 85.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 26 | 89.3th |
| Studio albums | 26 | 97.7th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 29 | 96.6th |
| Recording span (years) | -6 | 8.9th |
| Genres | 6 | 91th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (26 release groups · 26 studio albums)
Albums · 26
1992 · studio album
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1Symphony no. 5 in D minor: Lento - Allegro con moto7:482Symphony no. 5 in D minor: Intermezzo. Andante sostenuto5:593Symphony no. 5 in D minor: Scherzo5:314Symphony no. 5 in D minor: Finale: Lento - Allegro con moto9:155Stèle in memoriam d'Igor Strawinsky: Elegia5:596Stèle in memoriam d'Igor Strawinsky: Studio ritmico5:057Stèle in memoriam d'Igor Strawinsky: Lamento5:198Four Movements for Orchestra: I. Notturno5:469Four Movements for Orchestra: II. Perpetuum mobile3:3410Four Movements for Orchestra: Interlude1:2311Four Movements for Orchestra: III. Elegia6:0512Four Movements for Orchestra: IV. Ostinato7:53Concerto for Orchestra / Six Etudes for Orchestra / Capriccio for Orchestra
1996 · studio album
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1Concerto for Orchestra: Tranquillo5:032Concerto for Orchestra: Lento4:303Concerto for Orchestra: Presto4:214Concerto for Orchestra: Lento4:335Concerto for Orchestra: Vivo5:076Six Etudes for Orchestra: Allegro risoluto2:457Six Etudes for Orchestra: Andante sostenuto7:528Six Etudes for Orchestra: Allegro scherzando4:179Six Etudes for Orchestra: Lento6:2510Six Etudes for Orchestra: Allegro con spirito3:0811Six Etudes for Orchestra: Très long6:2912Capriccio for Orchestra: Ballade5:1513Capriccio for Orchestra: Notturno6:5414Capriccio for Orchestra: Scherzo5:10Concertino pour guitare et orchestre
1999 · studio album
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1Guitar Concertino: I. Introduction3:292Guitar Concertino: II. Toccata5:573Guitar Concertino: III. Intermezzo7:234Guitar Concertino: IV. Finale (Scherzino)3:0853 Pieces for Guitar: No. 1. Canzonetta (Reverie)2:1463 Pieces for Guitar: No. 2. Alla polacca1:5673 Pieces for Guitar: No. 3. Berceuse d'orient (Kołysanka no. 1)2:538Cavatine: I. Preludio2:489Cavatine: II. Sarabande3:1010Cavatine: III. Scherzino2:4211Cavatine: IV. Barcarolle2:5612Cavatine: V. Danza pomposa2:4013Ballade, "Hommage à Chopin"9:0214Suite in modo polonico: I. Entrée. Moderato cantabile1:5915Suite in modo polonico: II. Gaillarde. Allegretto0:5216Suite in modo polonico: III. Kujawiak Mazurka. Lento2:0517Suite in modo polonico: IV. Tempo de polonaise. Allegretto vivo1:2418Suite in modo polonico: V. Kołysanka no. 2. Lento2:0419Suite in modo polonico: VI. Oberek Mazurka. Vivace giocoso2:1320Variations sur un thème de Scriabine: Theme. Lento1:0621Variations sur un thème de Scriabine: Variations 1–67:2822Mazurka2:5623Hommage à Lech Wałęsa3:042006 · studio album
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1Symphony No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor: I. Adagio - Allegro deciso - Un poco meno mosso8:332Symphony No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor: II. Adagio pour orchestre à cordes. Tranquillo5:053Symphony No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor: III. Allegro giocoso7:464Symphony No. 5 in D Major: I. Lento - Allegro con moto - Molto meno mosso6:555Symphony No. 5 in D Major: II. Intermezzo. Andante sostenuto5:346Symphony No. 5 in D Major: III. Scherzo. Vivo5:467Symphony No. 5 in D Major: IV. Finale. Lento - Un poco meno lento8:218Symphony No. 6, "In Memoriam": I. Instruments à vent, percussion et piano. Andante cantabile6:479Symphony No. 6, "In Memoriam": II. Orchestre à cordes et quatuor à cordes. concertino. Agitato molto vivace3:0810Symphony No. 6, "In Memoriam": III. Orchestre complet. Vivo agitato - Lento - Molto vivace3:5611Symphony No. 6, "In Memoriam": IV. Chœurs et orchestre. Lento - Moderato6:262007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 54:41
1Musique: I. Canzona3:402Musique: II. Scherzo4:233Musique: III. Finale. Notturno2:064Musique à Six: I. Preludio3:435Musique à Six: II. Perpetuum pianissimo (intermezzo)1:176Musique à Six: III. Allegro risoluto4:107Musique à Six: IV. Notturno3:428Musique à Six: V. Cappriccio alla polacca2:579Musique à Six: VI. Postludio romantico4:1010Trois pièces: No. 1. Andante sostenuto2:5411Trois pièces: No. 2. Vivace possibile2:0512Trois pièces: No. 3. Lento cantabile3:2813Triptyque: I. Allegro risoluto3:5614Triptyque: II. Andante4:4315Triptyque: III. Finale. Presto7:272007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:04:36
1Symphony No. 7, "Lyrique": I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro con moto7:182Symphony No. 7, "Lyrique": II. Andante cantabile4:053Symphony No. 7, "Lyrique": III. Scherzo. Molto vivace4:334Symphony No. 7, "Lyrique": IV. Final. Adagio5:095Musique pour orchestre, "Symphony No. 8": I. Allegro con moto6:106Musique pour orchestre, "Symphony No. 8": II. Élégie pour orchestre. À Franz André. Lento5:317Musique pour orchestre, "Symphony No. 8": III. Scherzo. Molto vivace6:038Musique pour orchestre, "Symphony No. 8": IV. Finale. Andante sostenuto4:109Symphony No. 9: I. Allegro con moto - Un poco più lento5:3210Symphony No. 9: II. Grave - Più lento5:2211Symphony No. 9: III. Molto vivace - Perdendosi4:4912Symphony No. 9: IV. Lento - Allegro con moto, molto risoluto5:542008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:10:28
1Symphony No. 2 in A Minor: I. Allegro giusto - Un poco meno vivo - Tempo I8:462Symphony No. 2 in A Minor: II. Lento - Un poco più mosso - Animando6:093Symphony No. 2 in A Minor: III. Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso - Meno mosso. Tempo di mazurka4:124Symphony No. 2 in A Minor: IV. Final. Allegro molto - Tempo giusto - Quasi martellando7:525Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre: I. Notturno. Lento3:566Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre: II. Perpetuum mobile. Presto possible - Coda3:017Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre: Interlude - Lento0:598Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre: III. Elegia. Lento cantabile - Poco a poco accelerando e crescendo4:039Quatre Mouvements pour Orchestre: IV. Ostinato. Allegro moderato, mecanico6:0810Symphonie Concertante, "Symphony No. 3": I. Sinfonia. Allegro con anima - Con moto5:0111Symphonie Concertante, "Symphony No. 3": II. Tempo americano. Allegro molto5:1312Symphonie Concertante, "Symphony No. 3": III. Andante pesante. Crotchet = 66 - Più lento7:5613Symphonie Concertante, "Symphony No. 3": IV. Finale. Allegro molto - Meno mosso - Allargando7:122009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:01:06
1Symphonie de chambre: I. Toccata5:012Symphonie de chambre: II. Élégie5:323Symphonie de chambre: III. Final. Fuga3:564Sinfonietta No. 1: I. Allegro assai3:515Sinfonietta No. 1: II. Mazurka. Allegretto3:116Sinfonietta No. 1: III. Notturno. Lento4:407Sinfonietta No. 1: IV. Fuga e Toccata. Allegro giusto3:288Sinfonietta No. 2: I. Introduzione e L'estro armonico. Lento4:469Sinfonietta No. 2: II. Scherzetto popolaresco. Allegro vivace4:1310Sinfonietta No. 2: III. Adagio quasi intermezzo. Molto sostenuto1:5811Sinfonietta No. 2: IV. Finale romantico. Allegro giocoso2:5712Sinfonia piccola: I. Introduction et Allegro6:1313Sinfonia piccola: II. Aria. Andante cantabile2:4314Sinfonia piccola: III. Scherzo. Molto vivace4:0515Sinfonia piccola: IV. Finale. Allegro con moto4:322009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 32 tracks · 1:13:35
1Recueil de Mazurkas: I. Oberek. Vivo1:142Recueil de Mazurkas: II. Moderato - Più lento3:353Recueil de Mazurkas: III. Oberek. Molto vivo0:514Recueil de Mazurkas: IV. Andante espressivo1:255Recueil de Mazurkas: V. Modéré2:346Recueil de Mazurkas: VI. Moderato1:217Recueil de Mazurkas: VII. Moderato1:238Recueil de Mazurkas: VIII. Moderato1:349Recueil de Mazurkas: IX. Oberek. Molto vivace - Molto meno mosso2:2210Recueil de Mazurkas: X. Berceuse. Lento1:4811Sonata Rustica: I. Allegro agreste - Un poco meno vivo5:2212Sonata Rustica: II. Cantilena. Largo5:3213Sonata Rustica: III. Danza festiva. Molto allegro - Un poco meno mosso3:3714Sonatine No. 3: I. Pastorale. Animé3:0015Sonatine No. 3: II. Hymne. Lento2:4816Sonatine No. 3: III. Rondo. Presto2:4217Trois Preludes en forme de Blues: I. Lento cantabile3:3318Trois Preludes en forme de Blues: II. Moderato2:1519Trois Preludes en forme de Blues: III. Moderato2:2320Quatre Nocturnes: I. Moderato2:0321Quatre Nocturnes: II. Moderato1:4322Quatre Nocturnes: III. Moderato2:2523Quatre Nocturnes: IV. Lento1:2124Album des Amis: I. Notturno (à Béatrice Decamps). Moderato1:5225Album des Amis: II. Tempo di Blues (à Philippe Marietti). Andante cantabile1:4926Album des Amis: III. Tempo di Mazur (à Janusz Cegiella). Allegro con moto1:0427Album des Amis: IV. Canzonetta (à Pierre Hasquenoph). Lento2:2328Album des Amis: V. Caprice (à Eugène Indjic). A piacere1:5029Album des Amis: VI. Pastorale (à Irène et Tadeusz Zielinski). Lento2:0230Album des Amis: VII. Étude (pour Monique et Marcel Mihalovici). Allegro vivace2:0031Album des Amis: VIII. Hommage à Liszt (à Lulu et Vladimir Jankelevitch). Andante cantabile2:0832Album des Amis: IX. Berceuse Polonaise (à la Direction et au Personnel des Éditions Max Eschig). Très lent1:362010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 32 tracks · 55:24
124 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 11:14224 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 23:32324 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 31:32424 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 42:00524 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 52:24624 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 62:28724 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 71:31824 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 81:08924 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 92:341024 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 101:251124 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 113:181224 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 121:381324 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 131:181424 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 141:021524 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 151:251624 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 160:471724 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 171:251824 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 181:391924 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 192:232024 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 202:252124 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 214:382224 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 221:292324 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 231:342424 Intermezzi: Intermezzo No. 241:5225Petite Suite: I. Vision0:4726Petite Suite: II. Berceuse0:4427Petite Suite: III. Meditation1:2128Petite Suite: IV. Chanson polonaise0:3529Petite Suite: V. Plainte orientale2:2930Petite Suite: VI. Caprice0:2731Petite Suite: VII. Scherzino0:3432Valse-Impromptu1:46Clarinet Concerto / Concertino / Six Movements for Strings
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:01:49
1Clarinet Concerto: I. Introduction et allegro8:542Clarinet Concerto: II. Arioso4:073Clarinet Concerto: III. Cadenza et danza populare (Alla polacca)4:394Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings: I. Ouverture3:225Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings: II. Dialogue3:446Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings: III. Scherzo3:077Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings: IV. Elegie2:238Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings: V. Canon - Elegie4:249Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and Strings: VI. Final2:50106 Movements for Strings: No. 1. Introduzione et Allegro giocoso6:48116 Movements for Strings: No. 2. Dirge2:58126 Movements for Strings: No. 3. Perpetuum mobile3:27136 Movements for Strings: No. 4. Intermezzo4:24146 Movements for Strings: No. 5. Scherzino2:01156 Movements for Strings: No. 6. Fuga4:41Piano Concertino / Pièce concertante / Élégie / Stèle
2012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 55:37
1Piano Concertino: I. Toccata - Allegro vivace5:092Piano Concertino: II. Intermezzo Chopiniano - Andante cantabile3:183Piano Concertino: III. Finale - Allegro risoluto7:004Stele in memoriam Igor Stravinsky: No. 1. Elegia4:375Stele in memoriam Igor Stravinsky: No. 2. Studio ritmico4:466Stele in memoriam Igor Stravinsky: No. 3. Lamento4:367Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (completed by P. Moss): I. Allegro con moto5:598Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (completed by P. Moss): II. Andante cantabile4:179Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (completed by P. Moss): III. Vivace - Allegro deciso - Vivace5:3010Elegie a la memoire de Darius Milhaud10:252014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 28 tracks · 1:13:04
1Suite dans le style ancien: I. Entrée1:182Suite dans le style ancien: II. Sarabande2:093Suite dans le style ancien: III. Gavotte2:014Suite dans le style ancien: IV. Choral fugue2:485Suite dans le style ancien: V. Aria2:526Suite dans le style ancien: VI. Toccata1:207Ballade No. 18:018Ballade No. 29:409Ballade No. 311:0810Arabesques: No. 1, Intermezzo1:4011Arabesques: No. 2, Mazurka (Hommage à Chopin)0:5212Arabesques: No. 3, Nocturne1:2913Arabesques: No. 4, Fanfare0:5814Arabesques: No. 5, Berceuse1:2715Arabesques: No. 6, Danza1:44165 Impressions: No. 1, Calme1:15175 Impressions: No. 2, Burlesque1:26185 Impressions: No. 3, Triste0:59195 Impressions: No. 4, Anime0:54205 Impressions: No. 5, Nocturne1:29218 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 1, Prelude2:09228 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 2, Arioso2:43238 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 3, Interlude1:19248 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 4, Choral I2:26258 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 5, Invention1:02268 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 6, Choral II2:30278 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 7, Fuga3:11288 Cantilenes, "Homage to J.S. Bach": No. 8, Postlude2:142015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:18:31
1Romance4:362Violin Sonata No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo6:343Violin Sonata No. 2: II. Mélodie slave. Andante espressivo3:214Violin Sonata No. 2: III. Intermezzo scherzando. Presto possibile1:365Violin Sonata No. 2: IV. Finale. Allegro giusto6:416Sonata quasi una fantasia: I. Allegro moderato4:217Sonata quasi una fantasia: II. Scherzo. Molto vivace3:338Sonata quasi una fantasia: III. Andante5:219Sonata quasi una fantasia: IV. Finale. Lento - Allegro giusto3:5610Violin Sonatina No. 1: I. Modéré3:1211Violin Sonatina No. 1: II. Intermezzo1:4112Violin Sonatina No. 1: III. Scherzo. Allegro risoluto1:4513Violin Sonatina No. 1: IV. Notturno2:4714Violin Sonatina No. 1: V. Finale1:4315Violin Sonatina No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo3:0816Violin Sonatina No. 2: II. Andante cantabile4:0217Violin Sonatina No. 2: III. Allegro scherzando4:2218Fantaisie for Violin & Piano: I. Divertimento. Molto vivace3:0619Fantaisie for Violin & Piano: II. Élégie. Lento espressivo, un poco rubato3:0620Fantaisie for Violin & Piano: III. Fuga. Allegro risoluto2:3921Fantaisie for Violin & Piano: IV. Improvisazione. Moderato - Lento, un poco rubato2:4522Fantaisie for Violin & Piano: V. Canon. Lento cantabile1:1723Fantaisie for Violin & Piano: VI. Finale. Scherzo. Allegro moderato, molto deciso - Molto vivace2:592015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 33 tracks · 1:14:22
1Sonata rustica (Piano Sonata no. 1): I. Allegro agreste – Un poco meno vivo – Più lento – Un poco meno mosso – Tempo primo5:402Sonata rustica (Piano Sonata no. 1): II. Cantilena: Largo5:423Sonata rustica (Piano Sonata no. 1): III. Danza festiva: Molto allegro – Un poco meno mosso – Più vivo – Tempo primo3:554Quatre Danses miniatures: I. Gavotte0:515Quatre Danses miniatures: II. Menuet0:576Quatre Danses miniatures: III. Mazurka “à la Chopin”2:407Quatre Danses miniatures: IV. Petite marche0:558Mazurkas, Book I: I. Oberek: Vivo1:159Mazurkas, Book I: II. Moderato – Più lento – Tempo primo – Moderato – Più lento – Tempo primo3:5210Mazurkas, Book I: III. Oberek: Molto vivo0:5111Mazurkas, Book I: IV. Andante expressivo1:3012Mazurkas, Book I: V. Modéré2:2513Mazurkas, Book I: VI. Moderato1:2614Mazurkas, Book I: VII. Moderato1:1715Mazurkas, Book I: VIII. Moderato1:3716Mazurkas, Book I: IX. Oberek: Molto vivace – Molto meno mosso – Molto vivace2:2817Mazurkas, Book I: X. Berceuse: Lento1:5218Étude-Scherzo: Molto vivace1:19197 Préludes: Vol. I: Trois Préludes: I. Moderato – Lent – Tempo primo3:19207 Préludes: Vol. I: Trois Préludes: II. Andantino cantabile0:54217 Préludes: Vol. I: Trois Préludes: III. Moderato – Lento1:47227 Préludes: Vol. II: Quatre Préludes: IV. Lent2:25237 Préludes: Vol. II: Quatre Préludes: V. Lent1:50247 Préludes: Vol. II: Quatre Préludes: VI. Andante – Più vivo – Più lento – Più vivo (come prima) – Tempo primo2:31257 Préludes: Vol. II: Quatre Préludes: VII. Moderato – Un poco più vivo1:2426Sonatina (no. 1): I. Modéré – Tranquillo – Animando3:3127Sonatina (no. 1): II. In modo polonico: Allegretto – Un poco più vivo – Tempo primo3:0028Sonatina (no. 1): III. Toccata: Vivace – Tranquillo2:54295 Impromptus: I. Mélodie: Andante cantabile1:30305 Impromptus: II. Carillon et ronde: Allegro marciale – Piu vivo – Meno mosso – Tempo primo4:18315 Impromptus: III. Berceuse: Lento2:21325 Impromptus: IV. Humoresque: Molto vivace – Lento1:05335 Impromptus: V. Étude: Presto – Prestissimo1:01Complete Music for Solo Guitar
2016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 48 tracks · 2:15:36
1Ballade8:302Cavatina: I. Preludio3:083Cavatina: II. Sarabande3:374Cavatina: III. Scherzino2:545Cavatina: IV. Barcarole3:006Danza pomposa2:517Hommage à Chopin: I. Prélude2:048Hommage à Chopin: II. Nocturne2:079Hommage à Chopin: III. Valse romantique3:0810Suite in modo polonico: I. Entrée1:5811Suite in modo polonico: II. Gaillarde0:5812Suite in modo polonico: III. Kujawiak. Mazurka lente2:1813Suite in modo polonico: IV. Tempo di polonaise1:3014Suite in modo polonico: V. Kolysanka No. 21:5915Suite in modo polonico: VI. Oberek. Mazurka vive2:0516Inventions: I. Passepied1:5617Inventions: II. Sarabande2:2018Inventions: III. Sicilienne2:1019Inventions: IV. Toccata à deux voix2:2620Inventions: V. Aria3:1721Pièce en forme de passacaille5:4422Deux chansons populaires: I. Andante2:5323Deux chansons populaires: II. Allegretto3:0424Sonatine: I. Modéré4:0225Sonatine: II. Elegia3:0426Sonatine: III. Vif2:0327Sonatine: IV. Fughetta2:0928Variations sur un theme de Scriabin10:0029Prélude et interlude: I. Prélude3:3830Prélude et interlude: II. Interlude1:3431Pezzo in modo antico4:3932Suite: I. Notturno Romantico2:0033Suite: II. Alla Polacca2:0034Suite: III. Canzonetta2:0635Suite: IV. Invenzione2:1336Suite: V. Berceuse d'Orient2:4137Suite: VI. Segovia2:2038Hommage à Lech Walesa3:3439Pièces brèves: I. Valse-Caprice1:4140Pièces brèves: II. Dance populaire1:0541Pièces brèves: III. Burlesque1:5742Pièces brèves: IV. Berceuse-Boîte à musique1:3843Pièces brèves: V. Studio0:5944Mazurka5:2945Quattro tempi di mazurka: I. Moderato3:1846Quattro tempi di mazurka: II. Rondò1:4147Quattro tempi di mazurka: III. Allegro ma non troppo2:2648Quattro tempi di mazurka: IV. Allegro giocoso1:22Ballet Music: Sextuor / Bric À Brac
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 55:01
1Ballet-Bouffe "Sextuor" For Orchestra (1923)18:212Ballet "Bric A Brac (The Flea Market)" (1935)36:402017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 37 tracks · 1:02:09
1Huit novelettes: No. 1. Caprice: Lent2:272Huit novelettes: No. 2. Étude: Prestissimo0:563Huit novelettes: No. 3. Exotique (Danse javanaise): Largo6:594Huit novelettes: No. 4. Danse tzigane: Allegro giocoso1:535Huit novelettes: No. 5. Obertas (danse polonaise): Allegro giocoso1:596Huit novelettes: No. 6. Blues: Andante cantabile2:537Huit novelettes: No. 7. Prélude et fugue: Lento cantabile4:158Huit novelettes: No. 8. Improvisation: Andante comodo2:599Trois préludes en forme de blues: No. 1. Lento cantabile4:2610Trois préludes en forme de blues: No. 2. Moderato2:2711Trois préludes en forme de blues: No. 3. Moderato2:0912Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 1. Moderato0:3413Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 2. Allegro marziale0:3514Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 3. Andantino espressivo0:5115Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 4. Allegro giusto0:4216Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 5. Allegretto0:3417Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 6. Moderato0:3818Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 7. Allegro giusto0:2619Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 8. Allegro ma non troppo0:3920Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 9. Andantino grazioso0:1821Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 10. Mazurka lento1:0622Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 11. Allegretto0:3123Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 12. Moderato0:4424Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 13. Allegro (polka)0:4725Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 14. Allegro ma non troppo (mazurka)0:4626Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 15. Allegro (polka)0:4127Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 16. Moderato0:5728Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 17. Vivace (oberek)0:2429Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 18. Allegro grazioso0:1630Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 19. Lento1:1031Vingt pièces faciles sur des mélodies populaires polonaises: No. 20. Largo1:3432Suite dans le style ancien: I. Entrée: Allegro deciso, ben ritmato1:1733Suite dans le style ancien: II. Sarabande: Lento3:0534Suite dans le style ancien: III. Gavotte: Allegro grazioso2:1735Suite dans le style ancien: IV. Choral fugue: Moderato3:0036Suite dans le style ancien: V. Aria: Largo cantabile3:1337Suite dans le style ancien: VI. Toccata: Molto vivace1:412018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:00:10
1Suite concertante: I. Nocturne. Adagio sostenuto4:362Suite concertante: II. Toccata. Allegro deciso3:363Suite concertante: III. Berceuse. Lento, molto cantabile2:454Suite concertante: IV. ScherziNo. Allegro con moto3:485Clarinet Concertino: I. Introduction et allegro9:196Clarinet Concertino: II. Arioso4:267Clarinet Concertino: III. Cadenza et danza populare4:378Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: I. Ouverture3:199Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: II. Dialogue4:1910Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: III. Scherzo2:5411Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: IV. Elégie2:4112Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: V. Canon1:5813Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: VI. Elégie2:4914Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet & Strings: VII. Final2:4915Adagio for String Orchestra6:142018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 54:56
1Le Train de nuit16:212Sonate pour deux pianos: I. Andante sostenuto – Allegro con moto5:533Sonate pour deux pianos: II. Adagio3:184Sonate pour deux pianos: III. Molto vivace1:295Sonate pour deux pianos: IV. Moderato – Allegro deciso6:396Fantaisie sur les valses de Johann Strauß8:567La Grande Ville: I. La rue (Tempo di Fox-Trot)3:228La Grande Ville: II. Cité ouvrière (Tempo di Blues)4:339La Grande Ville: III. Dancing (Tempo di Charleston)4:252019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 37 tracks · 1:06:17
111 Interludes: No. 1, Moderato1:46211 Interludes: No. 2, Allegro giusto1:06311 Interludes: No. 3, Lento1:23411 Interludes: No. 4, Andante1:11511 Interludes: No. 5, Allegro con brio1:18611 Interludes: No. 6, Moderato1:13711 Interludes: No. 7, Allegro con moto1:19811 Interludes: No. 8, Lento1:51911 Interludes: No. 9, Andante sostenuto0:491011 Interludes: No. 10, Moderato0:471111 Interludes: No. 11, Allegro moderato ma deciso1:1712Hommage à Arthur Rubinstein: I. Tempo di mazurka2:0113Hommage à Arthur Rubinstein: II. Toccata2:26142 Pièces hébraïques: No. 1, Invention6:44152 Pièces hébraïques: No. 2, Berceuse juive2:33164 Piano Moods: No. 1, Andante cantabile1:00174 Piano Moods: No. 2, Vivace1:02184 Piano Moods: No. 3, Lento1:23194 Piano Moods: No. 4, Allegro meccanico1:1520Prélude et Toccata: I. Prélude. Andante sostenuto1:4621Prélude et Toccata: II. Toccata. Allegro molto3:24226 Caprices: No. 1, Allegro ben ritmato1:41236 Caprices: No. 2, Moderato1:49246 Caprices: No. 3, Lento2:34256 Caprices: No. 4, Molto vivace0:34266 Caprices: No. 5, Andante cantabile1:5327Visit to Israel: I. Notturno. The Mysterious City of Safed1:1028Visit to Israel: II. The Kibbutz1:0229Visit to Israel: III. The Ruins of Capernaum1:0630Visit to Israel: IV. The Sources of the River Jordan0:5431Visit to Israel: V. The Holy City (The Seven-armed Candelabra)1:5332Visit to Israel: VI. The Desert of Negev1:4233Visit to Israel: VII. The Mosque of Saint Jean d'Acre0:5934Visit to Israel: VIII. The Lake of Tiberias1:1935Visit to Israel: IX. Yemenite Cradle Song2:0136Visit to Israel: X. Popular Dance (Hora)1:2137Étude (Studio per pianoforte)6:45Complete Works for Solo Guitar 1
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:05:04
13 Dances from "Suite in modo polonico": No. 1, Gaillarde1:4623 Dances from "Suite in modo polonico": No. 2, Dumka4:0433 Dances from "Suite in modo polonico": No. 3, Danse des haydouks1:034Cavatine: I. Preludio3:245Cavatine: II. Sarabande3:386Cavatine: III. Scherzino2:597Cavatine: IV. Barcarole3:328Danza pomposa2:579Pièces brèves pour guitare: I. Valse-Caprice1:3710Pièces brèves pour guitare: II. Dance populaire0:5711Pièces brèves pour guitare: III. Burlesque1:5512Pièces brèves pour guitare: IV. Berceuse - Boîte à musique2:0913Pièces brèves pour guitare: V. Studio1:1014Hommage à Lech Wałęsa3:4515Mazurka5:58164 Tempi di Mazurka: No. 1, Moderato5:03174 Tempi di Mazurka: No. 2, Rondo - Vivo1:45184 Tempi di Mazurka: No. 3, Allegro ma non troppo2:32194 Tempi di Mazurka: No. 4, Allegro giocoso1:4420Suite in modo polonico (Excerpts): I. Entrée2:2621Suite in modo polonico (Excerpts): II. Gaillarde1:0022Suite in modo polonico (Excerpts): III. Kujawiak [Mazurka lente]3:1523Suite in modo polonico (Excerpts): IV. Tempo di polonaise1:3224Suite in modo polonico (Excerpts): VIII. Kolysanka No. 22:2925Suite in modo polonico (Excerpts): IX. Oberek [Mazurka vive]2:24Complete Works for Solo Guitar 2
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:19:39
1Inventions "Hommage à Bach": No. 1, Passepied1:552Inventions "Hommage à Bach": No. 2, Sarabande2:323Inventions "Hommage à Bach": No. 3, Sicilienne2:114Inventions "Hommage à Bach": No. 4, Toccata à deux voix2:145Inventions "Hommage à Bach": No. 5, Aria3:026Hommage à Chopin: I. Prélude2:217Hommage à Chopin: II. Nocturne. Moderato2:438Hommage à Chopin: III. Valse romantique3:149Ballade "Hommage à Chopin"9:5510Guitar Suite: I. Notturno romantico2:4311Guitar Suite: II. Alla polacca2:1912Guitar Suite: III. Canzonetta. Lento2:2213Guitar Suite: IV. Invenzione2:1614Guitar Suite: V. Berceuse d'Orient3:5015Guitar Suite: VI. Segovia2:4016Prélude et interlude: I. Prélude4:2417Prélude et interlude: II. Interlude1:2918Variations sur un thème de Scriabine9:4919Pièce en forme de Passacaille6:2420Pezzo in modo antico4:58212 Chansons populaires: No. 1, Andante2:49222 Chansons populaires: No. 2, Alegretto3:292021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 28 tracks · 1:02:57
124 Intermezzi, Book I: No. 1. Allegro con moto1:28224 Intermezzi, Book I: No. 2. Adagio sostenuto2:41324 Intermezzi, Book I: No. 3. Allegretto grazioso1:38424 Intermezzi, Book I: No. 4. Allegro con moto1:50524 Intermezzi, Book I: No. 5. Andante cantabile2:59624 Intermezzi, Book I: No. 6. Allegro deciso2:41724 Intermezzi, Book II: No. 1. Moderato2:10824 Intermezzi, Book II: No. 2. Allegro capriccioso1:20924 Intermezzi, Book II: No. 3. Andante cantabile2:301024 Intermezzi, Book II: No. 4. Allegro scherzando1:351124 Intermezzi, Book II: No. 5. Sostenuto2:141224 Intermezzi, Book II: No. 6. Allegro barbaro1:491324 Intermezzi, Book III: No. 1. Moderato1:231424 Intermezzi, Book III: No. 2. Allegro con moto1:111524 Intermezzi, Book III: No. 3. Andante cantabile1:151624 Intermezzi, Book III: No. 4. Allegro comodo0:531724 Intermezzi, Book III: No. 5. Moderato1:171824 Intermezzi, Book III: No. 6. Allegro agitato2:001924 Intermezzi, Book IV: No. 1. Moderato1:582024 Intermezzi, Book IV: No. 2. Allegro molto ritmato2:422124 Intermezzi, Book IV: No. 3. Adagio lamentoso3:552224 Intermezzi, Book IV: No. 4. Allegro scherzando1:302324 Intermezzi, Book IV: No. 5. Allegretto grazioso “Hommage à Brahms”1:472424 Intermezzi, Book IV: No. 6. Andante cantabile2:2825Piano Sonata no. 5 “À la mémoire de Béla Bartók”: I. Allegro deciso3:3926Piano Sonata no. 5 “À la mémoire de Béla Bartók”: II. Lento4:0327Piano Sonata no. 5 “À la mémoire de Béla Bartók”: III. Molto vivace3:0328Piano Sonata no. 5 “À la mémoire de Béla Bartók”: IV. Largo – Allegro con moto4:582023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 46:33
1String Trio no. 2: Toccata. Allegro molto3:202String Trio no. 2: Elegia. Adagio3:333String Trio no. 2: Scherzo. Molto vivace3:254String Trio no. 2: Finale. Largo – Allegro molto deciso4:035Serenade no. 2: Introduction. Allegro molto2:516Serenade no. 2: Nocturne. Andante cantabile4:117Serenade no. 2: Scherzo. Allegro vivace2:188Serenade no. 2: Dance polonaise. Lento – Allegro deciso – Lento4:599Suite‐Divertissement: Introduction et Marche. Allegro risoluto ben ritmato3:4310Suite‐Divertissement: Sarabande. Lento2:4711Suite‐Divertissement: Scherzino (Polka). Allegretto grazioso1:1812Suite‐Divertissement: Mélodie. Modéré1:5113Suite‐Divertissement: Nocturne. Largo4:5014Suite‐Divertissement: Finale. Molto vivace3:242024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 53:30
1Sonata quasi una fantasia: I. Allegro moderato4:352Sonata quasi una fantasia: II. Scherzo. Molto vivace3:453Sonata quasi una fantasia: III. Andante5:574Sonata quasi una fantasia: IV. Finale. Lento - Allegro giusto3:195Violin Sonata no. 2 in D major: I. Allegro ma non troppo6:516Violin Sonata no. 2 in D major: II. Mélodie slave. Andante espressivo3:467Violin Sonata no. 2 in D major: III. Intermezzo scherzando. Presto possibile1:428Violin Sonata no. 2 in D major: IV. Finale. Allegro giusto6:539Violin Sonatina no. 1: I. Modéré3:0810Violin Sonatina no. 1: II. Intermezzo. Andante cantabile1:4411Violin Sonatina no. 1: III. Scherzo. Allegro risoluto1:5612Violin Sonatina no. 1: IV. Notturno. Lent2:5313Violin Sonatina no. 1: V. Finale. Allegro giusto2:0114Romance5:00
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Alexandre Tansman head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 24 | 85.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 26 | 89.3th |
| Studio albums | 26 | 97.7th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 29 | 96.6th |
| Recording span (years) | -6 | 8.9th |
| Genres | 6 | 91th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | won |
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Wikidata: Q550218 · MusicBrainz: de3be6af-7887-41db-b708-b3b1c0354ef6
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