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Tansman - Piano Music | Grand Piano GP788

Tansman - Piano Music

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Label: Grand Piano

Cat No: GP788

Barcode: 0747313978823

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 8th February 2019

Contents

Works

Tansman, Alexandre

Caprices (6)
» no.1 Allegro ben ritmato
» no.2 Moderato
» no.3 Lento
» no.4 Molto vivace
» no.5 Andante cantabile
Hommage a Arthur Rubinstein
Interludes (11)
Piano Moods (4)
Pieces hebraiques (2)
Prelude et Toccata
Visit to Israel

Artists

Giorgio Koukl (piano)

Works

Tansman, Alexandre

Caprices (6)
» no.1 Allegro ben ritmato
» no.2 Moderato
» no.3 Lento
» no.4 Molto vivace
» no.5 Andante cantabile
Hommage a Arthur Rubinstein
Interludes (11)
Piano Moods (4)
Pieces hebraiques (2)
Prelude et Toccata
Visit to Israel

Artists

Giorgio Koukl (piano)

About

The career of Polish composer Alexandre Tansman flourished in Paris after the First World War, though it’s only in recent years that it has begun to be explored in depth on disc. A refined but spiritually engaged neo-Classicism remained a constant feature of his music-making in Europe and in his temporary American exile, whether in the beautifully evocative travelogue Visit to Israel or in the clarity of the Interludes and Caprices.

Giorgio Koukl is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer. He studied at both the Conservatories of Zürich and Milan, where he took part in the masterclasses of Nikita Magaloff, Jacques Février, and Stanislaus Neuhaus, and with Rudolf Firkušný, friend and advocate of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. It was through Firkušný that Koukl first encountered Martinů’s music, prompting him to search out his compatriot’s solo piano works. Since then he has developed these into an important part of his concert repertoire and is now considered one of the world’s leading interpreters of Martinů’s piano music, as a logical continuation of this work, Koukl has recorded the complete solo piano works of Paul Le Flem, Alexander Tcherepnin, Arthur Lourié, Vítězslava Kaprálová and Witold Lutosławski.

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