Symphony No. 6 for orchestra & chorus ("In Memoriam")
Polish composer Alexandre Tansman has been described by one of his biographers as a "child of luck," as he found doors opening for him seemingly wherever he went through most of his long life, whether it was in his adopted home of Paris, his years in Hollywood as an exile, or a pre-war visit with Emperor Hirohito. However, it doesn't seem as though posterity has regarded him in a very kindly way, as Tansman's once famous works were seldom performed even in the years before his death in 1986 and not at all afterward. One ...
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Polish composer Alexandre Tansman has been described by one of his biographers as a "child of luck," as he found doors opening for him seemingly wherever he went through most of his long life, whether it was in his adopted home of Paris, his years in Hollywood as an exile, or a pre-war visit with Emperor Hirohito. However, it doesn't seem as though posterity has regarded him in a very kindly way, as Tansman's once famous works were seldom performed even in the years before his death in 1986 and not at all afterward. One place where Tansman's music has found latter-day acceptance is in his native Poland, which he left in 1919 for Paris, never to return to live. A Tansman Foundation that hosts a competition for composers is based in Lodz where Tansman was born in 1897. So perhaps Tansman's stock is rising after all, and certainly this Chandos Super Audio CD, Tansman: Symphonies Vol. 1, can't hurt his fortunes.This disc covers three symphonies from the interwar and war years, very well played by the...
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